Many things

[brigdh]

I will post more often. I swear it.

For the negative criticism meme going around: feel free to do me! Here's my stuff. I'll accept negative criticism anytime, of course, but since this is an excuse for me to beg for more feedback (and I do like negative feedback just as much as OMG BEST THING EVAR feedback, especially since it tends to take more thought and effort), I fully support it.

You know the other meme going around right now, about 'Leave a comment and I'll say something nice about you'? I've discovered that I'm incapable of it. I know that the whole point is encourage compliments, and that it's not being egotistical to ask to be included, and yet I can never bring myself to leave that comment, no matter how well I know the person or how much I'd like to hear what they'd say. I think this is some weird leftover from being painfully shy when I was younger.

I'm redesigning my website, and I'm almost done- the only things I've got left to code are a page for links and one for icons (which, I keep wondering, is that even worth it? It's not as if I make icons that are well-done enough to be worth saving. And yet, I hate to lose anything I've created. It makes me sad.) The problem is that I hate my host, envy.nu. I abhor it. I liked it fine when I first got an account there, years ago, when there were no ads and the upload features were simpler, but now there's not only popups, not only banners, but multiples of both, in addition to no hotlinking and a weird feature where some of my pages can be linked to from offsite, but others can't.

Are there any free hosts left that actually don't suck? Or, on the other hand, I've been thinking about getting a domain. How much does that usually cost? What are some good providers? I like that idea, because it'd make me happy to be able to provide hosting for people I like, and because every now and then I kick around the idea of starting a general archive for YnM (and then I remember that I have no time. But I like the idea). There's KatCom and Phantom Moon and JuOhCho Files, of course, but I want something that's general, still operating, and organized differently, more like Slashing the Angel, say. Something very easy and searchable.

Anyway, that's not the point. Right now, I'd just like some advice on where to get a new host, if anyone knows anything. ^^

Comments

[kohakutenshi.livejournal.com]

http://www.onedollarhost.net/ ,baby. :D

At least, I've had Inu-Sessy up there for almost a year (OMG, it's been that long?!) and I've never had any problems with them. I registered the domain name through ecomedia. :D

Just don't go here: http://www.hostultra.com/

You see the picture of the girl with a bored, waiting look on her face? That's exactly what you do. They're down a lot, very slow, and very rude with support. >.<'

And I use AceFTP Freeware, for the FTP stuff...

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oo, thanks. I've heard good things about onedollarhost before, so thanks for reminding me of it! I'll defintely check it out.

And heh, thanks for the warning, too. Sometimes knowing the bad sites is just as useful as knowing the good.

Bad reader! No biscuit!

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Ack, and I so totally owe you feedback anyway. I am a bad, bad reader -- it takes me forever, because of the inevitable time necessary to figure out precisely what it is in a story that I'm reacting to -- and then things get disorganized and I wind up with paragraphs of half-finished commentary God-knows-where on my hard drive . . . it's not a pretty sight.

Meanwhile, I also fail at the say-something-negative meme thingy. Because I just took a look at "The White Trash of Meifu," and my attention was caught by the bit from Club!Soka at the top of the page. And the description of Tsuzuki, coming back no matter what Hisoka's done to send him away, not bouncy and happy and pretending nothing's wrong but coming back anyway because he can't help it? Is So. Fucking. Perfect.

Re: Bad reader! No biscuit!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Heh, no worries. I'm pretty bad at getting around to sending feedback too, because I tend to write pages and pages of it.

Awwww. Thank you. #^^#

Re: Bad reader! No biscuit!

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Ah, but I do worry. I must, or I'll find myself digging out half-written comments ten years from now, and thinking, That was such a wonderful story. I think I'll go re-read it. -- Wait, did I ever finish this and send it? Oh, I must have, and just have forgotten to delete this draft.

And that would not be a good result.

Re: Bad reader! No biscuit!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I know what you mean. I seem to have that problem mostly with people who I consider friends, rather than random-girl-posting-to-a-maillist. Because I'll drop them a note that says only, "I read! It was great!" with the full intention of writing a much longer email later, and yet I never seem to get around to it.

[nettlecoats.livejournal.com]

http://www.graffiti.net/ gives free webhosting without inserting banner ads or pop-ups, although as far as I can figure out they only let you upload one. File. At a time. (I'm actually willing to put up with this in exchange for the lack of ads, but I doubt most other people would.) That's the best I've managed to find, inasmuch as I firmly refuse to pay a cent for webspace...

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Wow! You know, when I asked that, I was sure I would never actually hear of a good, free site. I thought they'd all vanished with the dotcom bubble. Thank you so much for pointing it out to me. ^^

[childofatlantis.livejournal.com]

I can't do that meme either, but I will say something nice about you for free: You're an excellent writer and beta, I really appreciate your comments on things I've written, and if you weren't on another continent I would make a point of glomping you regularly. ^_^

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Awww! #^^# You are so sweet.

And now I get to do it for you! You're an amazing writer, too; what I especially admire about you is that you don't just have wonderful insights into the characters, but that you do actual plot. And what a plot! I've worried about you a lot over the last few months, and it makes me really happy to hear that you're starting to feel better.