freedubs.org -free hosting of dubs for the dubstep community

[von]

I just tried to sign up.. sent me a PM on ere but the password doesnt seem to be right for the page.

Hmm.

[ashley]

I got 1.7mbps and downloaded the file in like 3 seconds

Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot!

Is it a dedi your running from? Where is it hosted?

omgc.at?

lol?

[MARCHMELLOW]

wikid idea, i'll sign up tonight.

maybe post this in the DUBS section aswell???

[simian]

I got 1.7mbps and downloaded the file in like 3 seconds

Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot!

Is it a dedi your running from? Where is it hosted?

omgc.at?

lol?

Heh, yup .

Myself and a few other friends got together and built a box (4 core processor, 8GB of ram, 500GB of raid 1 backed storage) and split it up into a bunch of virtual machines. The box is colocated with rapidswitch in maidenhead, who seem to be a pretty good bunch.

omgc.at is my virtual machine, which freedubs is running on.

[ashley]

I got 1.7mbps and downloaded the file in like 3 seconds

Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot!

Is it a dedi your running from? Where is it hosted?

omgc.at?

lol?

Heh, yup .

Myself and a few other friends got together and built a box (4 core processor, 8GB of ram, 500GB of raid 1 backed storage) and split it up into a bunch of virtual machines. The box is colocated with rapidswitch in maidenhead, who seem to be a pretty good bunch.

omgc.at is my virtual machine, which freedubs is running on.

Nice, I wish I had some friends ready to chip in on a system like that, at the moment its just me and my pocket

Ours is at BlueSquare which is near Heathrow I think. We got very good speeds...shame now that there is always someone listening or downloading something that we only get those speeds at night time

[simian]

I just tried to sign up.. sent me a PM on ere but the password doesnt seem to be right for the page.

Hmm.

Yeah, as I wrote in a message a few posts back, there seems to be a problem where some browsers don't log in properly the first time, and want you to do it twice. I'm trying to find the solution, but currently you can work around it by just logging in again after the first failed login. Please let me know if doing this doesn't work.

In the mean time, I've added a message to the login page to make sure everyone knows this.

[simian]

wikid idea, i'll sign up tonight.

maybe post this in the DUBS section aswell???

Waaay ahead of you .

http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=47643

[simian]

Nice, I wish I had some friends ready to chip in on a system like that, at the moment its just me and my pocket

Ours is at BlueSquare which is near Heathrow I think. We got very good speeds...shame now that there is always someone listening or downloading something that we only get those speeds at night time

Yeah, it makes it much much cheaper. I ended up paying about 150 quid initially for the machine, and now 8 quid a month for the hosting (and we get 3TB of transfer, so it's a pretty sweet deal ).

Do you lot find yourselves getting through a lot of bandwidth?

[whut]

Nice one for this, sick idea...

[ashley]

Nice, I wish I had some friends ready to chip in on a system like that, at the moment its just me and my pocket

Ours is at BlueSquare which is near Heathrow I think. We got very good speeds...shame now that there is always someone listening or downloading something that we only get those speeds at night time

Yeah, it makes it much much cheaper. I ended up paying about 150 quid initially for the machine, and now 8 quid a month for the hosting (and we get 3TB of transfer, so it's a pretty sweet deal ).

Do you lot find yourselves getting through a lot of bandwidth?

Unmetered 10mbit with burstable 100mbit (not sure how much though) I should really put some bandwith monitoring on it but cos its windows I will have to restart the network interfaces.

I run more than a website on the server though, IRCd and other services like TeamSpeak etc so always have about 100 people connected.

We also have a dreamhost account which we are going to rape for its 9tb bandwith quota.

[simian]

Nice, I wish I had some friends ready to chip in on a system like that, at the moment its just me and my pocket

Ours is at BlueSquare which is near Heathrow I think. We got very good speeds...shame now that there is always someone listening or downloading something that we only get those speeds at night time

Yeah, it makes it much much cheaper. I ended up paying about 150 quid initially for the machine, and now 8 quid a month for the hosting (and we get 3TB of transfer, so it's a pretty sweet deal ).

Do you lot find yourselves getting through a lot of bandwidth?

Unmetered 10mbit with burstable 100mbit (not sure how much though) I should really put some bandwith monitoring on it but cos its windows I will have to restart the network interfaces.

I run more than a website on the server though, IRCd and other services like TeamSpeak etc so always have about 100 people connected.

We also have a dreamhost account which we are going to rape for its 9tb bandwith quota.

Wow, that's a pretty hefty connection . What network is the IRCd on?

[simian]

Nice one for this, sick idea...

Thanks, and I like your av

[neka]

Nice, I wish I had some friends ready to chip in on a system like that, at the moment its just me and my pocket

Ours is at BlueSquare which is near Heathrow I think. We got very good speeds...shame now that there is always someone listening or downloading something that we only get those speeds at night time

Yeah, it makes it much much cheaper. I ended up paying about 150 quid initially for the machine, and now 8 quid a month for the hosting (and we get 3TB of transfer, so it's a pretty sweet deal ).

Do you lot find yourselves getting through a lot of bandwidth?

8 quid a month for a dedi? :O

PM me about the html/css templates, i can give it a shot.

[ashley]

Nice, I wish I had some friends ready to chip in on a system like that, at the moment its just me and my pocket

Ours is at BlueSquare which is near Heathrow I think. We got very good speeds...shame now that there is always someone listening or downloading something that we only get those speeds at night time

Yeah, it makes it much much cheaper. I ended up paying about 150 quid initially for the machine, and now 8 quid a month for the hosting (and we get 3TB of transfer, so it's a pretty sweet deal ).

Do you lot find yourselves getting through a lot of bandwidth?

Unmetered 10mbit with burstable 100mbit (not sure how much though) I should really put some bandwith monitoring on it but cos its windows I will have to restart the network interfaces.

I run more than a website on the server though, IRCd and other services like TeamSpeak etc so always have about 100 people connected.

We also have a dreamhost account which we are going to rape for its 9tb bandwith quota.

Wow, that's a pretty hefty connection . What network is the IRCd on?

My own small network I only have a link with a friends shell account. I dont think I have enough IRCd knowledge to link with anyone that has a major network.

[swomp]

Nice, but I do agree with the comments that its hard to read...

[simian]

8 quid a month for a dedi? :O

PM me about the html/css templates, i can give it a shot.

well, it's colo, and its 8 quid after it has been split up between us. I think it's about 6 quid or something in total?

Here are the templates!
https://omgc.at/freedubs_templates.tgz

They're written in html, with data filled in using the Django templating language, although to do the design stuff you probably don't really need to understand it, other than to know that base.html is getting wrapped round everything else, and currently all the CSS is in there.

If you've got a unix box somewhere where you could install django, i'd be happy to give you the code base, which means you could try out the design on a copy of the site.

Thanks for the interest, and let me know if there is anything else I can do!

[simian]

My own small network I only have a link with a friends shell account. I dont think I have enough IRCd knowledge to link with anyone that has a major network.

Cool, I run a node on another little network myself. I far preffer IRC to any of the IM things, so i think it's the way to go.

[simian]

Nice, but I do agree with the comments that its hard to read...

Yeah, this seems to be the concensus. I think a redesign, or at least a few modifications, are in order.

[spartan]

nice one!

[ashley]

I know its better to pick one hole in yourself than a thousand in others but its always easier to spot other peoples mistakes so here are is some constructive criticism;

On the users panel, the green is very hard to read, even with anti-aliasing turned off.
An upload progress indicator could be nice. Achievable using Ajax.
On the upload form, it tells me one of the fields is too long but doesn't say which, this could be done via JavaScript validation rather than wasting time uploading a file that will go nowhere.


I like the way you use the PM system on these forums to activate accounts - however, seems a bit of a faff and what happens when this forum gets the "bandwidth exceeded" message every couple of months?


People have commented about the overall design, I personally like it however I feel it is more suited towards nerd culture as it reminds me of a command line interface. Possibly making the darker grey slightly darker and options to increase font size would be better. Not sure if you ever studied web accessibility and section 508 etc