irishmike wrote:
@harv
I have no idea about AmigaZone or your workings. But if you caught a worm, I would reconsider my OS of choice there and go with a very stable UNIX environment that is immune to such nonsense, Especially if I had "poured my heart and soul" into a project for some 21 years of my life. This is not meant to be an insult or any other form of put down, just stating an opinion so that perhaps in the future you will not have to spend time repairing a server :-)
Then again, I have NO love for Microsoft at all ;-)
Anyhow, a nice FreeBSD (would definitely be my first choice) or Linux server running Apache 2.0x would be great for a site of your nature.
Hope that you view this as constructive criticism and not a put down... because it is wholly meant to help!
Take care,
Mike
AmigaZone, which I started in 1985, originally ran on a mini-mainframe in Chicago on a service called American People/Link. The computer was used mainly for banking services but they leased time/space/storage/bandwidth on it to Plink to run an online service with "clubs." AmigaZone was one of those clubs, grew to be the biggest one with over 10,000 paying members. Plink shut down in 1991 and I moved the system and most of its customers to Portal Communications in Calif.
Portal ran on a Sun Unix system. AmigaZone became a club / forum on Portal and ran successfully there until 1996 until Portal decided to shut down all their consumer services and become an accounting software development house. Go look at
http://www.portal.com and you can see what they do.
So, AmigaZone was homeless again and I moved it to an ISP and we built an NT machine and bought the WildCat package to run it on which offers a full range of connection services: telnet, Web, FTP, mail, file libraries, message boards and news feeds, live chats, games, you name it.
I even got Amiga software developers to add a "chat window" to their Telnet clients (people generally don't use Telnet to log into systems for interactive chats) so incoming and outgoing text wouldn't mix with each other and you could send a line at a time instead of a character at a time. AmTelnet and other clients have a chat window because I asked for it to be put in there. Because it generated sales for its developer from AmigaZone members.
People castigated me for not running AmigaZone on an Amiga. Frankly, there WAS no all-in-one Amiga software solution that could do what Wildcat could do. It's been running on that hardware since 1996. There's been no need to upgrade (except for occasional system patches).. since the system was totally stable, could easily handle the load of what members I had left after Commodore went away and the Amiga market shrivelled into nothing (one by one, people switched to differrent platforms).. up until it was hit by a worm last week.
That's the history of the whole thing in a nutshell. The system has been operating under the same name for 21 years, but not on the same hardware, and in three different cities with three different host companies on three totally different hardware platforms and all of this is explained on my Web site, and I guarantee you I'm not going to explain this again.
I'm doing it because it's my baby. If it takes new hardware and a newer OS, then that's what it'll get.
Worms and viruses are evil. The idiots who create them are evil and should be tarred and feathered and castrated live on CNN.
Harv
