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PostUPDATE: Press Start Online archive now live on GR
by Herdanos » Wed Nov 02, 2016 4:47 pm

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

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PostRe: Free web hosting / Press Start Online
by Green Gecko » Wed Nov 02, 2016 4:51 pm

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

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PostRe: Free web hosting / Press Start Online
by Herdanos » Wed Nov 02, 2016 5:01 pm

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:

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PostRe: Free web hosting / Press Start Online
by deathofcows » Thu Nov 03, 2016 10:39 am

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!

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PostRe: Free web hosting / Press Start Online
by Tafdolphin » Thu Nov 03, 2016 11:23 am

I always though Press Start was started by Dave Scammel, now of videogamer fame, while he was still here?

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PostRe: Free web hosting / Press Start Online
by Johnny Ryall » Thu Nov 03, 2016 11:56 am

Nah I think that was a site called d pad

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by Tafdolphin » Thu Nov 03, 2016 12:02 pm

Aaaah, that's the one. Cheers!

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PostRe: Free web hosting / Press Start Online
by Green Gecko » Thu Nov 03, 2016 12:53 pm

I did not know that.

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PostRe: Free web hosting / Press Start Online
by Johnny Ryall » Thu Nov 03, 2016 1:49 pm

Yeah he had the handle dpad Dave I think?

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PostRe: Free web hosting / Press Start Online
by Green Gecko » Thu Nov 03, 2016 2:32 pm

Yeah I knew who he was here but I didn't know he was scammel

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PostRe: Free web hosting / Press Start Online
by Herdanos » Thu Nov 03, 2016 2:39 pm

Green Gecko wrote:Yeah I knew who he was here but I didn't know he was scammel


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PostRe: Free web hosting / Press Start Online
by Mogster » Fri Nov 04, 2016 11:33 pm

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.

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PostRe: Free web hosting / Press Start Online
by Herdanos » Mon Nov 14, 2016 4:13 pm

Thanks to the lovely admin staff here, this is now officially a thing!

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

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PostRe: UPDATE: Press Start Online archive now live on GR
by Mafro » Mon Nov 14, 2016 4:19 pm

Nice! Will give some of this a read tonight.

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PostRe: Free web hosting / Press Start Online
by rudderless » Mon Nov 14, 2016 8:01 pm

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.

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by Skippy » Mon Nov 14, 2016 8:34 pm

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:

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PostRe: Free web hosting / Press Start Online
by Mafro » Mon Nov 14, 2016 8:37 pm

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

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PostRe: Free web hosting / Press Start Online
by Skippy » Mon Nov 14, 2016 8:39 pm

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

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PostRe: UPDATE: Press Start Online archive now live on GR
by Cuttooth » Mon Nov 14, 2016 8:53 pm

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.

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PostRe: UPDATE: Press Start Online archive now live on GR
by Green Gecko » Mon Nov 14, 2016 10:25 pm

Yeah, and has culminated with Eurogamer ending that farce forever.

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