Colorado Backcountry: Site Updates
You might have noticed a large increase in the speed and reliability of the site lately. We bought a hosting package from Dreamhost.com and it kicks ass! In under 12 hours, snowfilmer.com, weknowsnow.com, databases, and all DNS was completely moved. The new servers are sweet, and the plan is really nice. 20GB disk, unlimited MySQL, apple streaming server, 1TB of bandwidth a month, tons of goodies, and monthly increasing disk and bandwidth quotas. Dreamhost is highly recommended and if your interested please use the link above and get us some hosting discounts when you sign up.
Other changes, we’ve gotten some of the videos setup in iTunes as video podcasts. It’s great to be able to download this stuff to your iPod. Ridertech.com also provides a podcast feed and it has some sweet footage and really cool google earth footy. Check us out in iTunes!
All the videos have been uploaded to Google’s kick ass video hosting service. Only draw back is it sometimes takes a week or two before your video becomes live. A human reviews all videos before they go into the pool. Great streaming service where you can charge for content if you want. W.K.S. Videos @ Google
Keep an eye out for updates from Jackson Hole, WY… if we can find internet access. Enjoy!
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January 13th, 2006 at 9:50 am
dude, so sick! everything is very fast.
Nice job on the smooth transition to the new hosting service.
Have a great time in Jackson, make sure to get the sweet footie so you can crank out more snow-porn.
yeahie yeah!
Mr.Shredlikley
(aka, -Slug)
January 14th, 2006 at 5:56 am
Hello!
I’m following your blog since it’s very beginings. I had someone to show it to me early. Someone you PM-d on snowboard.com… :)
It’s great to read up on the stuff you’re doing that far away. To be honest I’m a little envious because for the moment we have no snow around here… :( Also the videos and photos are very cool.
I would like to criticize one technical aspect though: you resize the photos from HTML (I mean via indicating a width and a height in the page’s code itself) and you link to the same pic as the full version. Well, my recommendation would be to upload two versions of each photo: a resized thumbnail - which you include in the webpage and the full version which you link. This is the pro way to do it, your would save some bandwidth, and people using slower connections would be able to load the page a lot faster.
That’s about it. :)
January 14th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
thanks for the comments and suggestions… to be honest i’ve been too lazy to do that.. we just switched to a good hosting service so i’m feeling more motivation to save bandwidth. it used to be painfully slow
January 14th, 2006 at 10:28 pm
Cool stuff, I’ve subscribed, you should check out putting a channel on Odeo.com, I like them more for podcasts.