So, I did talk with Vineman about his hosting services and frankly I liked it now. Now, we can't move Totse to a new hosting atm because it's Hellish call and he will do it on his own terms. But we can work on the CMS right away. We did talk about this before, having CMS hosted on a different host was the best way to reduce load.
I propose we have articles.totse.info or textfiles.totse.info which directs to Vineman hosting server. On that we will have joomla ready and clover will work on it without any problems.
All hellish has to do is just link the IP like he did for irc.totse.info.
In the end we have another independent component of Totse which is maintained by the community and then we can finally start publishing real content and use forums for planning and sharing information.
Again the traffic will be distributed and users who like the articles will just join in using forums.totse.info or just
www.totse.info.
We would have a new main page which will point uses to Textfiles, forums and IRC.
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Not me, I embrace change.
On a serious note, are you talking about making a seperate copy of this site and working on both at the same time...?
It will be a component of the site. It will be divided by two different platforms. Joomla for CMS and Vbull for forums. The administration will remain the same throughout the components. Like an Admin on forum will have control over CMS and IRC but each new component will have its own handlers. Like abrn handles IRC and gives access to hellish and me and other mods. Vineman will handle the server, whereas I [and hellish] will manage the CMS and handle the users. While Clover or other programmers will handle the operations like running the server and handling any issues.
The aim is to be portable. If totse.info forums go down we still have IRC and CMS [Joomla does have a forum feature, we can use that for handling CMS and making a dedicated Text-file section].
Again, the chain will remain the same. The community will have the higher vote and if you add more Admins it will limit the abuse or control or in other words dictatorship which you see on Zoklet.
This site runs on content and users post content hence they call the shots
I will make a detailed thread about this once Vineman agrees to do and Hellish goes along.
Tl;dr:
99.99.9.0 [IP] points to articles.totse.info ---> which basically points to Vineman Server running Joomla.
203.54.22.2 [IP] points to www.totse.info ---> New main page which points to articles, forum and IRC.
203.54.22.2 [IP] www.totse.info/bbs ---> forums running on Hellish server which is the main controller of the domain.
114.21.22.3 [IP] points to irc.totse.info ---> Channel for Totse and Army which is handled by abrn.
The ips are random but the concept is the same.