New server? Yeah, right...

[Grey]

It doesn't take that long to install a server. I did mine at home in less than a day, and that was getting all the bugs worked out and everything. I've never even taken a class in anything remotely computer related. I honestly can't see it taking more than 3 days, even if you don't have the first clue what you're doing.

Laurel, if you can't do it, have it done, if the thing even exists. If not, you can just tell us, we won't cave in, you know.

 

[Whispersecret]

Uh-oh. You have dared to criticize The Madam's efforts on our behalf. Prepare for the backlash of the Laurel Jihad. Find a good hiding place and guard thy genitals.

It's a pity, too, because it seems like the new server is up and running at last!

 

[Laurel]

Hi Grey,

Thank you for your concern and support. You've caught us. There really is no new server. In fact, there's no server at all. Literotica is currently hosted on my microwave oven. You will notice a sudden increase in 500 errors about the same time every day. While we have been trying to convince people that the cause of this is an increased number of visitors to the site, the truth is it happens as a result of me cooking a Swansons "Hungry Man" pot pie.

Literotica is not hosted at our house. We live in San Diego and the server is on the east coast of the US. The reason for this is that the facility where the server is housed is one of the big "Internet backbone" links (or so it has been explained to me). While our servers are located at Exodus, our actual host is a guy who has been with us almost since the beginning of the site.

We've always run Literotica with a "family" philosophy. We are not happy with how long it is taking to get the new server set up properly. On two different nights in the last week, we moved the entire site over to the new server and then, because of some sort of socket issues, had to move it back. Hopefully tonight we will again attempt to move the site, this time to a different machine.

Literotica has grown tremendously since its start in 1998. We could probably find any number of big hosting companies with hundreds of employees who could get the new server up and running faster. The question for us is whether we want to support someone who has supported us all along. I am certainly not saying that we will never leave our current host, and the longer the current situation drags on the more likely that might be. Still, we are two people running this site. Our host is a guy doing what he enjoys doing. We would like to think that we can continue to work with our friends instead of having to go to a company we don't know anything about.

Thanks again for exposing the truth. Now I've got to run. I've got a collect call from Twin Peaks on the other line - something about a one-armed man and some guy named Bob... Take care.

 

[Beebeeblue]

Whew, glad Im not the only one who invests in those Swanson dinners.

Seriously Grey, if I were you Id stay off her badside. I hear Madam cracks a mean whip.

 

[Wizard]

BBBwwwaaaaa, I just had too.

 

[Hullo_nurse]

Grey -- People like you really piss people like me off!!!! Instead of being grateful to Laurel & Manu for spending all their time, effort & $$ on us you piss down their throats. If you don't like the way the site runs then try to top it or go fuck yourself up the ass in a corner!!

http://geocities.com/r337m0nk3y/net2/smileyshot22.gif

[This message has been edited by hullo_nurse (edited 05-20-2000).]

 

[Earthgoddess]

Bad grey,very bad...You are now in a time out...no erotica for you until you apologize to Laurel...and my dear Madam can you please pop that turkey pot pie in after my RPG...go eat some salad or something, then nuke the living heck outa that Pot Pie...sorry about the spelling errors the chinchillas running my keyboard are being difficult...We love you Laurel...really, even if you do eat pot pies.

 

[Laurel]

Manu's the pot pie king - I'm partial to those Stouffers 5-cheese french bread pizzas. And Lean Cuisine makes incredible sechzuan noodles with peanut sauce - spicy, tasty, and filling, all in 5 and a half minutes.

 

[Magic Merlin]

Hey Wizard, I need you over here now.. Tonight we have a rabble rouser that dares to insult the Madam. I need you to gather the other members of Manu's Mafia. We have some work to do.....

I have the boiling oil all ready..Maybe you can bring the bamboo shoots..

Anybody else got any ideas? All are welcome...

Bad move, Grey......But as has already been said set up your own server or go elswhere

 

[Grey]

Uh...I did install my own server. Reread the first post. You know, you people piss off way too easily. I don't like Laurel, but I don't dislike her either, because I don't know her. Neither do any of you.

Maybe if you all wouldn't be so busy jacking off and kissing Laurel and Manus asses, you would have read what I said the first time.

I have to give ups to Laurel, your reply was funnier than hell.

 

[Magic Merlin]

We read it braniac, but considering the source......

 

[Wizard]

Hey MM , the Assholes are out this week huh.

 

[Magic Merlin]

Makes you wonder why he comes to this site. why doesn't he just leave.

I guess its like the lemmings..One runs off the cliffs into the ocean and the rest follow..They don't know why they do it, they just do.

What are you up to tonight Wizard...Lets see if we can find Angelique and LL and have some fun...on this thread


[This message has been edited by magic merlin (edited 05-20-2000).]

 

[Angelique]

Hi wizard, merlin. Hey merlin...what's this about boiling oil and your ass? Lower the temp of that oil and bring it on over...wizard, you up for another threesome?

 

[Wizard]

Unfucken real man , there alive!!!!! What the fucks up this wek man ?

Grey thats it man yea we are sitting here Jacking off and Kissing ass thats what we do here . You found us out so since you like it here so much then leave, you know I wouldn't even miss you.

We don't get pissed easy , we get annoyed at real stuiped shit like this. You need to get a life.

Funken unreal man.

Hey MM the board IS really smoking now, huh?

Thanks for fixing it guys.

 

[Angelique]

Wizard...come here dear. If you're gonna jack off & kiss ass, join our party first ok? No sense in doing it alone!

 

[Magic Merlin]

Must be the summer weather....

Yeah, the boards fast tonight...Great.

Bought me a Loofa today Wiz. I asked for a latin loofa, but they just looked at me funny....

 

[Wizard]

lmao Wonder Why........

 

[Grey]

It's "fuckin" anyway, braniac. Hahaha...god I love this shit. THIS is why I come here. All the little children to play with.

 

[Magic Merlin]

I think the guy thought i wanted his 80 year old grandmother....gotta watch what I say...

Wizard, where is everyone?

 

[Wizard]

OK there tough guy , I was typing with one hand and jacking off with the other ,sorry I won't do it again.

 

[Magic Merlin]

Enough said on this!!

[This message has been edited by magic merlin (edited 05-22-2000).]

 

[Whispersecret]

Grey, man, I warned you it was coming, didn't I? (I'm not sure you can compare your own server experience to Laurel's. Are you running a site the size of Literotica from your house?) Don't pay attention to the people who are telling you to fuck off and go somewhere else. You have a right to your opinion same as everyone else.

<turns to the snarling pack> Okay, now, back off. Go back and read the original post. The man wasn't that harsh. I'm sure the rest of you were tired of seeing Laurel's messages about the server not being up yet, weren't you? Come on, now, be honest.

Laurel didn't even take it that hard. At the most, he inspired her to a little sarcasm (I THINK it was sarcasm...) and a pretty funny post. It seemed to me that her frustration was mostly directed at her host, not at poor misbegotten Grey.

So, as Laurel herself told me once: Let's all kiss and make up. It's far more fun and appropriate for Literotica than fighting.

 

[Hurley International]

Grey>
as a Network Administrator, and a Website Designer for a Company that is one of the largest in the world, I can tell you first hand that, Setting up Servers are no Easy task, Now your little piss on server is fine but when you are running servers in a Enterprise Enviroment it gets more complicated. And since you are probibly using Windows 98 it shouldnt have been too hard, but when you start getting into Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server and DataCenter Server. it gets more complicated
we just got done installing a new server at my company and we started on it on Febuary 29th, and that is with 15 guys working on it. so Give it time, and in the words of my DC Shoe Company poster in my office,

"Good things come to those who wait"

-Shon Harris
Microsoft inc.
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer+Internet
Master Cerifed Novell Netware Engineer
Cisco Certified Network Associate (Lan and Wan Design)
A+ Certified Computer Hardware Technician
Network+ Certified Network Engineer

 

[Bigdog]

I haven't been here long, so let me get this straight: This is a FREE site and your bitchin' about the upgrades? WTF!

Note to HI, I was going to delve into how long it took ebay with their upgrade(s) but your post was better.