Hobbiton.org

[Gayowulf]

Im not sure if this place has been mentioned before, but 50mb, unix shell thru telnet or ssh, and 20mb mailbox.

htaccess and hitcounter too.

[Omari]

i have an unused forum hosted there

[Ted S]

Just a little information from core nic



Registrar: whois.networksolutions.com

Registrant:
Hobbiton Technologies (HOBBITON4-DOM)
2423 University Ave.
Grand Forks, ND 58203
US

Domain Name: HOBBITON.ORG

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact:
Pedersen, Leif (LP6212) kazoogle@HOTMAIL.COM
Hobbiton Technologies
private
private, ND 58203
701-775-0040

Record last updated on 26-Dec-2000.
Record expires on 12-Dec-2001.
Record created on 12-Dec-1998.
Database last updated on 10-May-2001 11:53:00 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.DNAME.NET 216.161.238.157
NS2.DNAME.NET 216.161.236.101


The only reason I point this out is that the address appears to be some student and the email address is a nice free account.

And to make things more fun, here's a little quote from their history


Hobbiton runs on a 640k x 272k DSL, an Athlon 650 with 192meg ram, 4.5 gig
of UW-SCSI and 117 gig of IDE disk space, a nice VGA video card and a great
amber monitor. ;)


Now dsl can be great and all but 274kbps upstream isn't much at all... a t1 is 1500kbps and still only boils down to about 180k a second for your downloads. As for the rest of the specs, no power backup is never a good thing and an IDE harddrive with thousands of users writting to it, well that's never any good either.

Don't get me wrong... you can have an amazing host running out of someone's host but be ready for it to go down and go down hard.

[Omari]

they have lasted for quite a while

[Ted S]

Great... hopefully they'll only get bigger. Have you ever used them actively?

[Omari]

nope, but every time i go to http://sportsu.hobbiton.org it is up

[LeX]

Their support is pretty efficient. (meaning you prolly get an answer in a day or two)

[gyrbo]

Now this is a good way to anounce a (possebly) new host.

[Omari]

Originally posted by gyrbo
Now this is a good way to anounce a (possebly) new host.

they are not new at all though(hardly any of the ones people have been posting lately have been)

[NC_TOM]

But they are new to most of the people who visit this forum. I had never heard of them before a friend told me about them a couple of weeks ago. I'm sure some other people had never heard of them before this thread.

[Epgs]

yeah i have never heard of them

[TECGeek]

Originally posted by Ted Sindzinski
Just a little information from core nic



Registrar: whois.networksolutions.com

Registrant:
Hobbiton Technologies (HOBBITON4-DOM)
2423 University Ave.
Grand Forks, ND 58203
US

Domain Name: HOBBITON.ORG

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact:
Pedersen, Leif (LP6212) kazoogle@HOTMAIL.COM
Hobbiton Technologies
private
private, ND 58203
701-775-0040

Record last updated on 26-Dec-2000.
Record expires on 12-Dec-2001.
Record created on 12-Dec-1998.
Database last updated on 10-May-2001 11:53:00 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.DNAME.NET 216.161.238.157
NS2.DNAME.NET 216.161.236.101


The only reason I point this out is that the address appears to be some student and the email address is a nice free account.

And to make things more fun, here's a little quote from their history


Hobbiton runs on a 640k x 272k DSL, an Athlon 650 with 192meg ram, 4.5 gig
of UW-SCSI and 117 gig of IDE disk space, a nice VGA video card and a great
amber monitor. ;)


Now dsl can be great and all but 274kbps upstream isn't much at all... a t1 is 1500kbps and still only boils down to about 180k a second for your downloads. As for the rest of the specs, no power backup is never a good thing and an IDE harddrive with thousands of users writting to it, well that's never any good either.

Don't get me wrong... you can have an amazing host running out of someone's host but be ready for it to go down and go down hard.

Basically I agree with you except that people who use MSN Internet Access (possibly MSN DSL) get Hotmail accounts, so just because he has one does not necessarily mean that this isn't a professional service. It doesn't matter to me because I pay now but I thought I should share that.

[maddhatt]

After reading the posts on this forum I decided to go to Hobbiton.org and have a look around. I liked what I saw. And this is why...

The site is professional looking with a clean design.

The domain was registered in 98. It's 2001 and there are a lot of much bigger sites that have come online and gone in that time. That's got to count for something.

With the exception of Looksmarts directory they can be found in every major search engine including Yahoo and the Open directory project. Being included in the Yahoo directory (not just Yahoo search which is provided by google) can mean tons of traffic and being listed in the Open directory project gaurantees a listing in AOL search.

Based on what I saw and the searches I ran they appear to be established and I'm saying that as a webmaster and someone who has a genuine desire to earn a living online. A lot of people call themselves webmasters because they managed to put a page up on Tripod or Angelfire but I've always thought there was more to it than that. Afterall Luke didn't become a Jedi just because he hung out with Yoda and Obi-Wan,he had to put some work in and when I see a site like Hobbiton I have to tip my hat to them and hope that my site will still be around in a few years.