Wait, How Does This Internet Thing Work Again?
Pokerati is pretty happy about how things turned out in 2006, and our remote Third World sweatshop/think-tank is hard at work preparing for an even better 2007. And part of that means continuing to improve the site itself, to make your experience while visiting slightly less pathetic/irritating.
So, question(s) that I’m hoping one of you uber-internet geeky types or my newfound SEO friends can explain to me … first off, what-the-fug is that strange little snare-drum noise when you refresh the page?!? I can’t for the life of me figure it out, but obviously I had to put it on there somehow.
And second … I have had multiple offers recently from people to host Pokerati on “I have my own server.” (Some complain that the site is still slow-loading as all get-out.) Obviously I’d like to get you our intelligent mass of pixels to you as fast as possible. So what’s the catch? Am I giving anything up by letting someone else with their own interest at hand take over the hosting duties? Or am I just being an ass and not recognizing when someone wants to help just for the sake of being nice? Current host is Startlogic, for whom I have neither love nor hate …
Oh, and while I’m at it on this non-pokery kick … we should all be for the idea of net neutrality, right? Just making sure. Seems to make sense — big nasty cable and telecom companies are bad — but I am still waiting for Mark Cuban to tell me how to think:
Karridy says:
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:15am
People volunteering to host Pokerati have nothing to gain. Think about it… Unless they are putting ads on your site, what really is in it for them? I guess they can list Pokerati in their client lists. But if it means removing the link to BigMammaQuiltsAndCrafts.com, I doubt they would even make the effort. Take them up on their offers. You’ve got a “gift horse” and you can’t even find the mouth. Oh… Dan.
jackietrehorn says:
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:59am
I like the snare drum sound.
Jeff says:
December 22nd, 2006 at 2:50pm
I’m glad you mentioned the drum sound. It’s been driving me crazy for a while, but I didn’t know it was coming from your site. I usually load up about 20 bookmarks at once in Firefox and I hear that sound every day. It looks like it’s coming from the Ultimate Poker Challenge video from your December 12th post: http://www.ultimatepokerchallenge.com/v2/video.swf
Sommer says:
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:11pm
Noise is from the two Flash players loading on the page.
Scott Chaffin says:
December 22nd, 2006 at 9:46pm
Pathetic? I’m absolutely crushed…
Willie says:
December 23rd, 2006 at 1:10am
On the server thing, I guess it’d be nice to get running for free and all, but say some news site, like digg or fark.com, links to your site. The bandwidth shoots to all hell and the server crashes. Now, instead of having a company who has to report to you and make you happy because you pay them money, someone would have to fix it out of the kindness of their hearts. All I’m saying is, you get what you pay for.
DanM says:
December 23rd, 2006 at 3:36am
What, Scott, you don’t think the people who spend their hard-earned hours reading this site are a little bit on the pathetic side? C’mon, man … you gotta know your readers! And mine … well … you know … they have genetic deficiencies.
Garthmeister J. says:
December 26th, 2006 at 1:43pm
I have an extra chromosome!
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DanM says:
March 29th, 2007 at 5:08am
Interesting. My own web-host is resorting to comment spam …