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UPDATE: Press Start Online archive now live on GR

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2016 4:47 pm
by Herdanos
Hello GR, does anyone know of a reliable free web hosting platform?

Reason I'm asking: I have 70MB of HTML on my laptop that combines to create, in its entirety, the final form of the now-extinct (AFAIK) website Press Start Online, which was founded by GR's very own rudderless back in the original Gamesradar forum days, and was provided to me in offline HTML form by (I think) Aneurin.

My idea is: I find a reputable free web hosting platform, upload the content, and then it is online, forever, for anyone to enjoy (not just me).

So first of all, does anyone have any recommendations as to a platform I could use (and also, if you could advise as to how I'd do this, I'd be grateful :slol: )

Secondly: do any of the PSO crew, particularly rudderless, object to this idea? Please let me know. Quoted for noted, below.
rudderless wrote:Hey


Spindash wrote:Hey


Fizheuer Zieheuer wrote:Hey


tnman wrote:Hey


Mogster wrote:Hey


Eighthours wrote:Hey


Nate Dogg III wrote:Hey


Phatman wrote:Hey


deathofcows wrote:Hey

Re: Free web hosting / Press Start Online

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2016 4:51 pm
by Green Gecko
Couldn't we just host it here?

We have the capacity to host 100 websites like this if we wanted to. We can do anything with the server.

Something like press-start.grcade.co.uk or pso.grcade.co.uk

Re: Free web hosting / Press Start Online

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2016 5:01 pm
by Herdanos
Green Gecko wrote:Couldn't we just host it here?

I mean, if you could - and you were happy to - then yeah, that would be utterly, utterly brilliant :wub:

Re: Free web hosting / Press Start Online

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 10:39 am
by deathofcows
A blast from the past! I've no problems personally, though I'm not sure I'd readily admit to writing whatever self-indulgently convoluted stuff I did back then!

Re: Free web hosting / Press Start Online

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 11:23 am
by Tafdolphin
I always though Press Start was started by Dave Scammel, now of videogamer fame, while he was still here?

Re: Free web hosting / Press Start Online

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 11:56 am
by Johnny Ryall
Nah I think that was a site called d pad

Re: Free web hosting / Press Start Online

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 12:02 pm
by Tafdolphin
Aaaah, that's the one. Cheers!

Re: Free web hosting / Press Start Online

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 12:53 pm
by Green Gecko
I did not know that.

Re: Free web hosting / Press Start Online

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 1:49 pm
by Johnny Ryall
Yeah he had the handle dpad Dave I think?

Re: Free web hosting / Press Start Online

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 2:32 pm
by Green Gecko
Yeah I knew who he was here but I didn't know he was scammel

Re: Free web hosting / Press Start Online

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 2:39 pm
by Herdanos
Green Gecko wrote:Yeah I knew who he was here but I didn't know he was scammel


:?:

Re: Free web hosting / Press Start Online

Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2016 11:33 pm
by Mogster
No objections from me! It's nice to be remembered. :D

I loved writing for PSO, although I have no idea if any of my stuff was actually any good. It's definitely better than anything I've done since though. My highlight was the trip to London for the GRAW preview event, including an interview with one of the devs which somehow wasn't a complete car crash. I seem to recall that we were invited all of one day beforehand.

Re: Free web hosting / Press Start Online

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2016 4:13 pm
by Herdanos
Thanks to the lovely admin staff here, this is now officially a thing!

http://www.grcade.co.uk/PressStartOnline

:mrgreen:

Re: UPDATE: Press Start Online archive now live on GR

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2016 4:19 pm
by Mafro
Nice! Will give some of this a read tonight.

Re: Free web hosting / Press Start Online

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2016 8:01 pm
by rudderless
Tafdolphin wrote:I always though Press Start was started by Dave Scammel, now of videogamer fame, while he was still here?


:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Anyway, nice to see that any time I'm doubting myself I can look at this and realise my writing actually *has* come on a bit in nine years.

Re: Free web hosting / Press Start Online

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2016 8:34 pm
by Skippy
rudderless wrote:Anyway, nice to see that any time I'm doubting myself I can look at this and realise my writing actually *has* come on a bit in nine years.


Same. As in, I used to be so shite I was never published on Press Start :lol:

Re: Free web hosting / Press Start Online

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2016 8:37 pm
by Mafro
Skippy wrote:
rudderless wrote:Anyway, nice to see that any time I'm doubting myself I can look at this and realise my writing actually *has* come on a bit in nine years.


Same. As in, I used to be so shite I was never published on Press Start :lol:

PressStartOnline/viewd888.html?item=223

Re: Free web hosting / Press Start Online

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2016 8:39 pm
by Skippy
Mafro wrote:
Skippy wrote:
rudderless wrote:Anyway, nice to see that any time I'm doubting myself I can look at this and realise my writing actually *has* come on a bit in nine years.


Same. As in, I used to be so shite I was never published on Press Start :lol:

PressStartOnline/viewd888.html?item=223


Oh gooseberry fool. Point still stands, I was shite

Re: UPDATE: Press Start Online archive now live on GR

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2016 8:53 pm
by Cuttooth
The Head/Heart scoring is still kind of an interesting choice looking back, considering how weirdly vocal sections of the internet have since got over objectivity and subjectivity.

Re: UPDATE: Press Start Online archive now live on GR

Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2016 10:25 pm
by Green Gecko
Yeah, and has culminated with Eurogamer ending that farce forever.