Tonights project was mostly just doing some of the finishing touches.
http://new.buyvm.net/beware-the-moshbear/was put together as well as the footer is finally cleaned up and linked properly.
A landing page was put together for our locations too: http://new.buyvm.net/datacenters/
The datacenters page was easy since most of the content in the site is just simple 'blocks' I can load as sub views.
Still looking good for a June 1st release!
Francisco
http://new.buyvm.net/beware-the-moshbear/was put together as well as the footer is finally cleaned up and linked properly.
A landing page was put together for our locations too: http://new.buyvm.net/datacenters/
The datacenters page was easy since most of the content in the site is just simple 'blocks' I can load as sub views.
Still looking good for a June 1st release!
Francisco
So classy with your language.
Shouldn't this image:
Contain a naked homeless person with his pants down, covered in poo, in a pile of heroin needles under an ocean pier?
Or Snookie?
Or this guy.
Other than that, website is looking great.
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drmike
100% Tier-1 Gogent
How did you manage 100 customers without a website? Crazy feat right there. Congrats.
Find a designer or buy a template that isn't used by 100 other hosts. Heck even create something simple.
I posted that site when System-D ate all my cron jobs and screwed up a day or three of my time. I can't get a Debian fork without System-D fast enough. Hopefully my positive meditation energy finds a receptive dork and motivates him/her/it.
comXyz
New Member
30% are my old customers when I was reseller of another provider. When my old provider just disappeared, I got some dedi servers, and move my old customers there. 70% are my old customers friends.
I'm developing the website myself. Hopefully it will look not so bad.
drmike
100% Tier-1 Gogent
Content matters.... Well formed, good spelling, organized logically, etc.
Looks matters in some corners of the web. Nothing wrong with a good look, but can always improve upon that if not up to level of other folks. Don't let the look be a deterrent.
comXyz
New Member
Ahh, missing your question, I have control panel up and running, just doesn't have the main website up yet. And almost customers just need to install the OS first time, few customers need to reinstall OS after few weeks, and the the VPSes just up and running well.
Thanks for your advice
drmike
100% Tier-1 Gogent
So how much did the boat ride and lunch cost? Nice pretty country there...Has anyone crossed an international border before just to eat lunch?
Crossing the Rio Grande into Mexico...
Totally worth it.
$5 boat ride, covers both ways. You can cross on foot for free if the water is low enough or you can swim for free as well.
Once there you can take a $5 mule or horse into the village which is about a mile from the river. Alternatively you can take a vehicle for $10 which I opted for since I left my big hat and sunscreen in the car and it was hot hot hot today. (plus im burnt burnt burnt already).
Lunch was $15 or something. Everything was made there in the village. Jalepenos and onions grew there, salsa made there, unsure if the tortillas were but I assume they were. Chicken from the village. Was good and well worth it.
Not that long. On the American side there is now a 'regular' port of entry/exit so I displayed the officials my passport and stated nature of my visit and was sent through the back where there was a trail about 1/8th of a mile long leading to the river bank. Once there, some Mexican nationals were loading supplies into a boat (a car tire, bottled water, etc) and I rode with them across. Once on the Mexican side of the river you just walk up the hill and arrange your method of entering the town.
Once in town you must go to the Mexican customs office which was operated out of a trailer and you fill out customs paper work. Took maybe 5-10 minutes there. Throws you off if you're like me and used to seeing everything in English and smaller print in Spanish. There it was all in Spanish with English sub-print. Me no speaka Spanish-o.
Then I was set free to raise hell in Mexico. Only I spent less than two hours there, ha.
Leaving you just enter the Mexican customs office again and they stamp your passport, sign something and tell ya bye. Once back on the American side they just wanted to know why I went and what I bought. The border entry isn't equipped like others so I had to speak with a border agent a couple hundred miles away in El Paso over the phone. She didn't seem to care why I was there and was just reading her prompt.
No bags searched, no hassle. Was a simple process.
I only went because I've never been to Mexico before, now I can say I have. I went to get some souvenirs and because I heard they have some great Mexican food... duh!
Only complaint was the old 86 year old man in a wheelchair who kept strumming on his broken guitar that was out of tune and missing strings. He was shouting a chorus in Spanish. We tried to communicate to each other and he told me he had 12 kids, told me how one was gunned down by a machine gun. Told me about his large ranch that was once full of livestock but now has been all stolen or set free. His wife of 18 years left him many years ago (He asked why I was traveling alone and if I had a woman). Nice fella, and the conversation (attempt) was worthy of the $2 I put in his tip jar but I'd have paid him double to not play guitar and sing while I tried to eat... haha.
Even more done!
Tonights project was the Anycast page, our testimonials page, & cleanup to the homepage.
http://new.buyvm.net/
http://new.buyvm.net/anycast-vps/
http://new.buyvm.net/customer-reviews-buyvm/
On the homepage I got the testimonials reading out of SQL as well as did some minor grammar changes. I removed the 3 icons at the bottom since they looked really out of place.
The anycast page didn't take very long to get together since I was able to just rebase it from the DDOS protection page and ripped out the big ass table. I'm not sure how I feel about the world map. The image is great I just wonder if the colour I made it is too bright. I'll see how I feel about it come morning.
The Testimonial page was really simple since I was able to just use the block of code I did for the homepage. I was trying to think up other ways to spruce it up but I think it looks fine how it is. I need to get some newer reviews in there though. New site does us no good when our reviews are from 2012 >_>
All that's left is....the contact us page, the windows vps page, the storage vps page, and I guess the GRE tunnel guide if we really feel inclined to import it. The storage & windows VPS pages are just rehashes of the KVM pages so that's a couple hours at most.
Holy shit it's almost done.
Francisco
Tonights project was the Anycast page, our testimonials page, & cleanup to the homepage.
http://new.buyvm.net/
http://new.buyvm.net/anycast-vps/
http://new.buyvm.net/customer-reviews-buyvm/
On the homepage I got the testimonials reading out of SQL as well as did some minor grammar changes. I removed the 3 icons at the bottom since they looked really out of place.
The anycast page didn't take very long to get together since I was able to just rebase it from the DDOS protection page and ripped out the big ass table. I'm not sure how I feel about the world map. The image is great I just wonder if the colour I made it is too bright. I'll see how I feel about it come morning.
The Testimonial page was really simple since I was able to just use the block of code I did for the homepage. I was trying to think up other ways to spruce it up but I think it looks fine how it is. I need to get some newer reviews in there though. New site does us no good when our reviews are from 2012 >_>
All that's left is....the contact us page, the windows vps page, the storage vps page, and I guess the GRE tunnel guide if we really feel inclined to import it. The storage & windows VPS pages are just rehashes of the KVM pages so that's a couple hours at most.
Holy shit it's almost done.
Francisco
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Mexican Coke (the drinkable kind -- no, really) still uses real sugar I think. I got some Pepsi Throwback a couple years ago just so I could regress into my childhood... well, I'd hoped. Tasted nothing the fuck like 1985. Felt screwed. Do they make a Coca Cola with real sugar? The Mountain Dew with sugar...god no wonder we all do what we do, look what they were pumpin' into us as kids...
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Real men drank this in the 90s...
There's a vid floating around YouTube of this dude drinking a 20 year old jug of the stuff ... promptly spewing his guts all over his kitchen. My buddy gave me a bottle of Orbitz a few years ago, told me if I ever needed a quick $500, all I had to do was chug it. Still on the workbench shelf in my basement.
There's a vid floating around YouTube of this dude drinking a 20 year old jug of the stuff ... promptly spewing his guts all over his kitchen. My buddy gave me a bottle of Orbitz a few years ago, told me if I ever needed a quick $500, all I had to do was chug it. Still on the workbench shelf in my basement.
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