II am personally on my (our) SECOND "gratis" site, one of our imps has a very good personal/customer relationship with the owner of a site... The down side of this is if the site has ANY problems we get no notice, and we dont like to bitch because we arent paying for the service. I would PREFER to pay for a site, so if something goes wrong, I have someone to hold accountable. Or at least can count on an email letting me know that there is going to be down time or why it was down so i can pass this info on to my players... I think sites for muds are rare (conpared to the ppl who want to run them) BECAUSE most of the ppl who run them dont have a site (before you DUH me read on) I think that the theory and idea of running a mud is very attractive, until you start doing it, anyof you running a mud wiht players besides your self know EXACTLY what i mean, your time and involvement increase exponentially. So lots of ppl who want a site may fold when the get one...just an Idea, sorry to ramble on an off coding topic. Ghost Shaidan Questionable Sanity, porsche.ag.net 4000 (or with dns probs 204.164.158.4 4000) On Thu, 7 Nov 1996 MAALEXAN@am.pnu.com wrote: > Brian Williams writes: > > well, I am having some disagreements with the owner of mud.penguin.net 4000 > MUD.. so I'm gonna take the MUD and all my mods elsewhere.. :P if anyone > knows a t1+ site that wants to house it.. please email me.. > ******* > > Is this a common problem? I've got a general impression that some mud imps > on this mailing list don't actually have a site to run on at present. Is > this a common practice? It seems to me that it is rather risky to spend an > enormous amount of time to develop a really good game and then to have no > where to run it. > > How is the issue of where to run the mud handled in general? Ideally the > mud coder/develop should use his own site (renting one at his/her own > expense if necessary). (I had to call a lot of providers to find one that > would let me run a mud on their system as an ordinary customer--but I found > one). > > If the mud coder doesn't want to pay for his own site, then he/she would > have to use someone elses's. Do people rely on the generosity of site > providers or do they give part "ownership" of the mud to the site host in > return for use of his/her site? > > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ > | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | > | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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