Has anyone ever though of starting a ‘webring’ between first team’s websites?
What would you guys think of something like that?
We’d need some site to act as the “Home” (and mabey someone to register www.firstwebring.org and have it point at that site) The site could either be a team’s site, or a number of teams could share in the design of a independent site. Also, someone could design a cool logo that links to the home.
I don’t have any time to put into this, but just a thought that might be a cool idea.
*Originally posted by Jack *
**Has anyone ever though of starting a ‘webring’ between first team’s websites?
What would you guys think of something like that?
We’d need some site to act as the “Home” (and mabey someone to register www.firstwebring.org and have it point at that site) The site could either be a team’s site, or a number of teams could share in the design of a independent site. Also, someone could design a cool logo that links to the home.
I don’t have any time to put into this, but just a thought that might be a cool idea. **
I’d be happy to talk it over with my team. We’re setting up a dedicated server at a local sponsor/ISP, so we’ll be able to do it. However, we’re a rookie team…and between scrambling to finish our robot and scrambling to get this server up and running and scrambling to finish our website, we probably wouldn’t have time to do it until after the brunt of FIRST is over.
I’d be willing to buy the domain and work on the site in “my spare time”, though: at least once march 8th is past.
*Originally posted by Jeremy_Mc *
**i’m going to try set something up like this tonight.
look for a post tomorrow.
*jeremy **
Your submission software is great for this, Jeremy.
So, are we looking toward a temporary database and a move toward a permanent ring after the madness?
There was one a year or two ago. We used be a part of it, and have links to it it on our main page. It seemed to be unkept and many of the links went down, and so I removed it.
I’m basing it off the link submission code from our site yes…
I reserved www.firstwebring.tk …
I can’t exactly order a top level domain right now, i will hopefully soon.
If you go to the link and nothing works it’s because i’m still working on it and i don’t want to put a temporary document up…i’ll post here again when i’m completely done (should be in < one hour)
during that time, please do check out our site and see what it has to offer…
These are all available.
I was thinking about trying firstteams, but then you run into the ugly double T.
Though .org might be more correct, we’ll get more traffic from a .com or a .net, but the best from a .com. Price doesn’t matter…
not sure if anyone has allready registered, but eventhough many sites are .com, i do think that this would be better firstwebring.org
And, nice job especially Jeremy_Mc for making a script for this. (Heck, I only posted this like 16 hours ago)
Also, just a little question. Because it takes like 48 hours for a DNS to resolve, what happens if two people buy the same domain at roughly the same time? - anybody know?
the Übergeeks will be happy to host the script also…
(we can change the look of it from what it is now…i just thought i’d integrate it into the übergeeks site for ease of construction)
We’re on a dual 800 MHz with 512 MB of DDR with 2 x 30 GB SCSI drives all connected to a DS-3 connection.
It’ll save us some money on hosting and you can easily point the domain there…just tell what the domain is and i’ll setup the DNS/virtual host this afternoon
*Originally posted by Jack *
**not sure if anyone has allready registered, but eventhough many sites are .com, i do think that this would be better firstwebring.org
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*Originally posted by Jack *
**not sure if anyone has allready registered, but eventhough many sites are .com, i do think that this would be better firstwebring.org
And, nice job especially Jeremy_Mc for making a script for this. (Heck, I only posted this like 16 hours ago)
Also, just a little question. Because it takes like 48 hours for a DNS to resolve, what happens if two people buy the same domain at roughly the same time? - anybody know? **
Impossible.
It may take 48 hours for DNS to resolve, but that has nothing to do with the availability of domain names. I imagine Internic keeps a database which all the registrars draw from.
When it says DNS takes 48 hours to resolve, that is the amount of time it takes for the information that yourdomain.com really means your.numeric.ip. to propogate through the system.
Every night, all of the days DNS registrations are sent to 701, a monstrous DNS server in Washington State. It spends the next 24 hours filtering back down through the ISPs
*Originally posted by Jeremy_Mc *
**the Übergeeks will be happy to host the script also…
(we can change the look of it from what it is now…i just thought i’d integrate it into the übergeeks site for ease of construction)
We’re on a dual 800 MHz with 512 MB of DDR with 2 x 30 GB SCSI drives all connected to a DS-3 connection.
It’ll save us some money on hosting and you can easily point the domain there…just tell what the domain is and i’ll setup the DNS/virtual host this afternoon
*jeremy **
The Force Team would also be happy to host it.
We’re in the final stages of configuring a FreeBSD server with a 20 gig IDE and a 20 gig SCSI drive.
As for our bandwidth, well, it’ll be one of two things.
A) a T1, either at our school or at a local ISP
B) (and this is the kicker) a T3 that get’s IT’s bandwidth from a local optic fiber line. Lemme explain, cause this is one helluva nerd tale. I work at said local ISP, right? There is an optic fiber line leading down the street to another house. This guy has a T3 to the business he owns in the town over, which has a true blue fiber optic line. Basically, this guy gives us some some of his bandwidth in exchange for a colo and tech support. So, depending on what goes on with that, we’ll either have slightly less or slightly better bandwidth then you.
We could always split up the hosting…but that might go into needless complications…
Anyway…
I’ll see if I can get the domain name within the next half hour.
and you can easily point the domain there…just tell what the domain is and i’ll setup the DNS/virtual host this afternoon