Jabba wrote: When your site came back up I remember you telling me that you decided to continue this project because someone in the nuke community persuaded you. Question 1: How close were you to actually pulling up stakes and why? Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:45 pm Last edited by Jabba on Tue Oct 11, 2005 3:26 pm; edited 1 time in total
admin(Mark) wrote: I was about 95% on my decision to pack it up at least for a while. I have had hosting problems before and in most cases it took me a long time to recover from lost files or server down time. With the host before my last, I had a great ranking with google but their server was constantly going down and the last time, it went down for two months leaving me with a dead site. I lost my ranking completly and I had to switch website address. Some of the members will remember it was western-studios.com. It took me about 5 months to get everything back and better but then once again another hosting problem. They sold. I was left with the choice of either starting over again or pack it up. My wife was supportive and said something which was one of the main factors to the return. She said "You have put so much hard work into your site, I can't believe you are going to let it end like that". She was right, so i asked the nuke community for help and they did just that. I got many pm's offering help, even had people offering me some of their own webspace. This is exactly the reason I love and support this community. Steve[perfectgames] and Xyberian set me up with webspace so I can continue creating for the community. I am forever greatful to them and the nuke community. I am here to stay and I will offer as much help and support as I can. Sometimes I am late in replying but that's because I have other projects I had to get done and I do need some time with my wife.lol Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:16 pm
Jabba wrote: Kuddos to your wife for her positive influence. I'll freely admit that I'm a n00b and I'll always be one. I can't begin to tell you how many times I've spent several hours trying to patch this or make that work on my ONE phpnuke site. You sound passionate about helping out n00bs like myself. Question 2: Do you have to force yourself to stop working on a project? Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 3:25 pm
admin(Mark) wrote: Although difficult and time consuming, I always try my best to finish all the projects. Creating scripts is not the easiest thing especially when security is such a major concern. Most people have the impression that because the module may have two pages, it would take two or three days to complete. This is only true if you do not want admin, security, nice features, speed and more. If it's free, have some patience and you will get great and working material. If it's paid, please put less stress on time and give the designer enough space and time to create something that works. I can guarantee that most if not all scripters will have errors when they are rushed. I will do my best in all works and hope that people like what i create. If I had enough time, you would all get some great stuff. I have so many ideas but not enough time. Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:37 pm
Jabba wrote: Perfect transition into my next question. The nuke community is so used to enjoying free stuff. From the CMS to modules, blocks and other tools, one rarely has to pay for anything. Frankly, I see a lot of empty tip jars at some pretty useful phpnuke sites. Question 3: Do you think the free ride has spoiled a large section of the nuke community? And if so, hasn't that made it more difficult for persons that wish to charge for their product or services? Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:49 pm
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