Re: Fwd: Re: MySQL on SunSITE

[Paul Tiseo <ptiseo@mediaone.net>]

At 04:07 PM 9/1/99 +0200, you wrote:
>Ok, here's the response from sunsite about the responsiveness problems.
>Please consider this in the discussion about switching, guys.

	Yes, we are ironing out the difficulties. As far as I can tell, other
pressures and miscommunications caused some delays, but we are back in
business with sunsite.

	I am currently getting things working with Esben (a.k.a bart) and we will
soon be operational. I somehow still cannot log on directly, but this is a
minor issue as I used to be able to log on before. Database tables can be
designed in php3, and phpMyAdmin, now and will work.

	If this is how people want to proceed, that's fine. We can tell
gamedev.com thanks, but no thanks...and I won't have to look elsewhere on
the net for a host site. Is this the final word? Do we stick with what
we've got?

	Just in case anyone is interested, here's the last word from Dave Astle,
from gamedev.com:

At 12:05 AM 9/1/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi Paul,
>
>I took the liberty of subscribing to your mailing list to see what the 
>feedback you
>got was, and I didn't personally think it sounded that negative, although I 
>assume
>you have had conversations offline that may have been moreso.
>
>To address some specific concerns I noticed:
>
>- Although we are not as "pure" as a server hosted by an educational 
>institution,
>we are hardly corporate.  We just banded together to provide a more complete 
>site,
>and were able to pool our resources to do some cool things.
>- We have had some limited server problems, but such things are
inevitable, and
>they will get better as we are able to afford better hardware and full-time 
>people
>to maintain them (we almost have that now though).
>- Although our site doesn't focus on Linux game development, I think all of us
>consider Linux a viable gaming platform. Certainly better than any other 
>Windows
>alternative.
[...]
>Anyway, don't feel like I am trying to push this through or that we are 
>desperate
>to host your site.  We have a large number of sites we are discussing 
>hosting with,
>each targeting specific area, because we would like to make the "net" part 
>of our
>name more than just a name.  We think LGDC is without question the top Linux 
>game
>development site, and would love to work with you.
>

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Paul Tiseo
LGDC's webmaster
http://sunsite.auc.dk/linuxgames
ptiseo@mediaone.net