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Hobbiton.org
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Ted S
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Just a little information from core nic
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
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.
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.
nope, but every time i go to http://sportsu.hobbiton.org it is up
Originally posted by Ted Sindzinski
Just a little information from core nic
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.
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.
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.
