rpgsearcherz

Hey all, I'm curious as to if any of you long-time members have noticed a massive change in MyCents and the amount you earn. I took a break for a few months due to getting caught up with some thing in real-life, as well as had issues with the lack of others posting here (there were many days with 0 posts at all for 24 hours, and sometimes as many as 2-3 days with 0 posts).

Now that I'm back, I went through and replied/took part in many different topics. But what I've noticed is that earnings are so low now that they are almost non-existent. As an example, prior to my break 10 posts would be about $0.80 or so (usually more -- I was getting up to $0.20 per depending on a lot of factors). But as of now, with 15-20 posts I don't even pass the $0.50 mark.

Curious as to if others have run into the same thing. As it is, there's no way I can see it being possible to keep up my site's hosting considering at the moment I run $28 or so a year for domains and another $72 or so for the hosting itself. At the current rate that'd be around 3,000-4,000 posts needed a year, and due to the lack of activity that's really a long shot.

Is there anything else we can do to help keep up our hosting? Some of us have been here for multiple years (I've been here 4.5 myself) and have never gotten warnings, been in trouble, etc. and have taken great pride in both the site and our own accomplishments. It just feels like all of it's going to waste now.

Hey all, I've recently tried to get my site backed by Cloudflare but am unable to figure out how... I transferred my NameServers to theirs and from that point on the site was unable to be accessed. According to their site we need things like A records and more, of which I'm unsure where to even find them all.

Has anyone here successfully used Cloudflare with ComputingHost?

Hey all, figured this is where I should post this. More or less I run gaming sites (fansites) for MMORPG's and have been getting a lot of positive comments. I've decided to take my project(s) a step further and make game databases (items, quests, etc.). For a reference of what I'm talking about, refer to:

• Magelo.com
  
• rift.zam.com (no www)

These seem like they are pretty basic to anyone with database knowledge, but I have ideas on how to spice them up as well, making them more beneficial and therefore increasing their popularity.

As for data, they usually come from the game itself (through game files), XML files (in the case of Rift these are supplied by the developers on a regular basis) and manual input. I'd be willing to help out wherever I can, but I don't know PHP and thus wouldn't know where to start with databasing -- I could, however, give listing of columns or something like that, such as with stats and whatnot for items.

Regarding what I'm offering up, I see it working in a few different ways, and am more than willing to work something out with someone I believe is up to the task:

• I could pay for services (either on a per-game or even per-feature basis)
  
• We could work out some type of monetization method and work out a sharing procedure like that
  
• We can cycle all earnings back into the project for other things (server upgrade for new features, etc.) to enhance the site/project even more

The database will only be one part of the site. The sites are fansites, so they include up-to-date news, previews/reviews of game changes, etc. for each respective game as well.

As for the technology we'd employ, I was looking along the lines of MySQL, although I wouldn't be against MSSQL either, or another technology -- I'd leave that one up to the developer.



So this is just a basic overview of what I'm looking for. If there are any questions or anyone is interested in talking to me about the project further, please do. I'm also looking for people interested in helping take on the news/walkthrough/videos/podcasts/etc. aspects of the game sites as well, but the database is a main priority right now as I can handle news and whatnot (for the record, the games in question as of right now are TERA, Guild Wars II, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and Rift, though there will be more in the future and I'm always up for ideas).

Just toss me a PM with a bit about yourself, your knowledge, what you'd be looking for out of helping out and what all you'd be willing to help out with and we'll go from there.

Thanks guys!

(Edit: you can also email me directly: rpgsearcherz@gmail.com)

Hey guys, hoping someone can help out with this. Basically I just want to set up a cron job on my server (using ComputingHost).

Based on what I was reading, we should be adding a script like the following:

/home/(AccountName)/public_html/CronScript.php

In the above case, I used the settings above the "script" box to set up the time frame. I have tried hour, 30-minutes and 1-minute. None of these seem to work.

Is there something I'm missing with this? I'm completely new to cron jobs.

Thanks all!