Sorry I didn’t mention it. But I was also wanting this on more features than just his plugin. I did mention it to him in his blog post about BuddyBlog and he was very quick to answer.
“Hi Kristoff,
though there is no way at the moment to have scheduled post(by time), but with slight code, It can be forced to allow users to post to single category. Please let me know if you need that code.”
I was hoping that someone here might have a solution or ideas.
1. I wasn’t wanting them to necessarily go to the backside. I was wanting the scheduled post drop down like is in the real post editor to be on the BuddyBlog editor on the front side.
2. this is exactly what the front side blog editor is missing.
3. I want the dead man’s switch on all user content. like their whole profile and media. so they could set a date after which it would turn on and be visible if they did nothing.
well i think i just lost a ton of writing… I’m not writing it again. bbPress needs autosave draft like phpBB.
Short and sweet, I will keep up with you on our growth or lack of and how our systems handle it. I prolly won’t stay with cloud and what do you think of these?
I may have mentioned it earlier, but also tech support told me today that it’s a shared IP… I don’t think Google likes shared IP’s with thousands of crappy websites on them.
right now I would say you’re very cost effective on size vs cost. And I agree people don’t want to pay for anything… much less something so simple as a video of their own that they’re going to give to you.
then think about the viewing of videos… how many go viral? not many percentage wise. So like you said, storage is most important for 90% of the media.
At rackspaces prices you’d be paying $2000 per month for the storage you have now.
I’m actually planning on a lot of media too… and it worries me. there’s noroof on it… Google, Facebook, they have massive datacenters all over the world to host that stuff… And so does Rackspace. The time it takes me to personally run my dedicated servers vs the time to run these cloud sites? lots of time saving…
If you’re using rtmedia you’re still paying for bandwidth. Plus don’t forget about energy, you have to pay to cool and run all those systems, and you’ll need to be able to handle demand. what if 10,000 people want a video at one time? what about 200,000?
Now if you’re not going to be huge? but you’re going to have a lot of media? then I say it’s a better idea…. because it will be sitting most of the time.
For my site, I’m thinking of charging to host video and giving embed away for free. Youtube has tons of servers and will pay you for views. Imagine turning all your videos into youtubes and then playing them through embedding on your site.
I would suggest going slow… host yourself. buy a server. see how it goes. then start adding more. How many visitors do you have now?
Here’s those prices you asked about.
Host unlimited domains on a single account for $10.00 per.
Sub accounts that they have built in billing so you can be a host.
Get 50GB of storage, 500GB of bandwidth, and 10,000 compute cycles for $150/month.
$2/GB for storage and 18ยข/GB for bandwidth as you go over.
setting up my first cloud site now… really went together fast. and it comes with ssl and email server already. had a bit of an issue with low timeout settings and low max file settings in php. But over all, really fast and stable.
I use Rackspace dedicated server for my site right now… I’m considering moving over to their Cloud Sites in the near future for their instant scalability. Kinda steep though. $150 a month? It is a one button install though.
