alphaneutrino
New Member
Hi FWS posters,
I'm sure some of you remember me from about a year and a half back with my attempt at starting a FWP called MegabyteStored. Of course I know you same people are disappointed in me for not actually following through with all those goals I set for MegabyteStored. I just wanted to appologize to anyone who had an account with MegabyteStored or were thinking of getting one. Let me quickly explain what happened and why MegabyteStored went down the drain.
Some years ago I had a few FWP accounts for personal pages but was always disappointed with the service I was getting in return for the enormous ad on my pages. I decided that I wanted to change all that by starting my own FWP. I did some research here in the forums and created a pretty revolutionary idea for a FWP. Basically it was Diablo in a FWP. My idea was to allow members complete control over their accounts. A member could fine-tune his account for bandwidth, server space, etc. This was my ultimate goal for the first step. I first considered doing the whole thing on my own computer over a consumer grade DSL line but decided against it on the basis of only 128Kbs of Upload bandwidth. So instead I invested in a dedicated Linux server at SkyNetWeb. Over the course of this project I shelled out about $3000 in about 4 months. At the time I had a part-time job while attending college so I was able to keep up with the cost (mostly). As I was writing the code for the control panel I began to see that the features I wanted to implement would take at least a month of full-time work (although I only had a few hours a day to work on the project). This realization bogged me down to accomplishing quite little and at about the time that I accepted 200 applications for an account I decided to close the service (which was quite incomplete).
I'm sorry for disappointing my multitude of members and would-be members. It has been quite a long time since I've come onto the forums here because I was quite ashamed of myself after making such lofty promises and then failing to follow through with them.
Besides heartily appologizing to anyone who deserves an apology I would like to discuss something else. MegabyteStored (the idea) has yet to be done by anyone (to my knowledge). I still desperately want to complete the project and offer the FWS.net community an awesome place to store their sites. My time frame is much more conservative now because I don't want my reach to exceed my grasp because a repeat of the previous fiasco is not something I want to occur. In any case, I just wanted to tell everyone that one day soon, there will be a home for you; one that doesn't disappear one day. The reason I say this with conviction is that now instead of acting I am planning my business, how to maintain a cash flow while providing free services, how to implement revolutionary FWP features in MegabyteStored, and much more.
Take care all, I'm now browsing the forums constantly so if you want to flame me, question me, or talk to me don't hesitate to.
To everyone that supported me and my ideas in the past, thank you and I won't disappoint you again! :classic2:
-- alphaneutrino
I'm sure some of you remember me from about a year and a half back with my attempt at starting a FWP called MegabyteStored. Of course I know you same people are disappointed in me for not actually following through with all those goals I set for MegabyteStored. I just wanted to appologize to anyone who had an account with MegabyteStored or were thinking of getting one. Let me quickly explain what happened and why MegabyteStored went down the drain.
Some years ago I had a few FWP accounts for personal pages but was always disappointed with the service I was getting in return for the enormous ad on my pages. I decided that I wanted to change all that by starting my own FWP. I did some research here in the forums and created a pretty revolutionary idea for a FWP. Basically it was Diablo in a FWP. My idea was to allow members complete control over their accounts. A member could fine-tune his account for bandwidth, server space, etc. This was my ultimate goal for the first step. I first considered doing the whole thing on my own computer over a consumer grade DSL line but decided against it on the basis of only 128Kbs of Upload bandwidth. So instead I invested in a dedicated Linux server at SkyNetWeb. Over the course of this project I shelled out about $3000 in about 4 months. At the time I had a part-time job while attending college so I was able to keep up with the cost (mostly). As I was writing the code for the control panel I began to see that the features I wanted to implement would take at least a month of full-time work (although I only had a few hours a day to work on the project). This realization bogged me down to accomplishing quite little and at about the time that I accepted 200 applications for an account I decided to close the service (which was quite incomplete).
I'm sorry for disappointing my multitude of members and would-be members. It has been quite a long time since I've come onto the forums here because I was quite ashamed of myself after making such lofty promises and then failing to follow through with them.
Besides heartily appologizing to anyone who deserves an apology I would like to discuss something else. MegabyteStored (the idea) has yet to be done by anyone (to my knowledge). I still desperately want to complete the project and offer the FWS.net community an awesome place to store their sites. My time frame is much more conservative now because I don't want my reach to exceed my grasp because a repeat of the previous fiasco is not something I want to occur. In any case, I just wanted to tell everyone that one day soon, there will be a home for you; one that doesn't disappear one day. The reason I say this with conviction is that now instead of acting I am planning my business, how to maintain a cash flow while providing free services, how to implement revolutionary FWP features in MegabyteStored, and much more.
Take care all, I'm now browsing the forums constantly so if you want to flame me, question me, or talk to me don't hesitate to.
To everyone that supported me and my ideas in the past, thank you and I won't disappoint you again! :classic2:
-- alphaneutrino