Game and Web Private Hosting

I mentioned in September that I was trying out the GoGrid servers for a potential game server.

Well all seems ok with GoGrid.
Admittedly they are still in Beta and a couple of bugs appeared in the administering of the servers but overall its a sweet system.

One down side for me that is; I thought this hosting remedy would be the "be all, and end all" solution, however as it turns out it wasn't.

With the design of the internet as it is today and still not perfect by any means, porting a client from Asia to the servers in the States was not such a clever idea.

Sure for users on the American continent its a great solution, but elsewhere in the world its slow at its best.

So back to the original plan of multiple hosts worldwide.

"dum de dum. Hey guys....meeting again."

This week I have been tidying up a new account at GoDaddy webhosting.

From tomorrow and onwards I will be moving all of the NiHao3d websites up to GoDaddy and then activate the user's blogs, emails, and what-have-you's.

GoDaddy's web services are fantastic I must say.
The only one bug-bear that I have with them is that they do not have a 24 / 7 website support chat system.

When I was dealing with GoGrid this proved rather useful as being in China meant I was always counting Z's while they were in office hours and vice versa.

But GoDaddy on the other hand works via telephone and support tickets.
Sure I could phone them in the midnight hours, but I dont really have the courage to barrage their offices with more bells ringing at ungodly hours.

So Support tickets it was, and although slow in the send / reply they always provided excellent results.

So webhosting; check,
gamehosting; check,
what next.....

Well after everything has been set up properly and considered running smoothly, then its back to the dev machines and working on the game again.

"Oh no the grindstone again"
Actually I love the dev part of it all most.
Just wish I had more time for it.

Then set up game servers for Asia....again.

and so on, and so on, and so on.

Someone once said, and its been repeated a billion times;
"Its all in a day's work" ???

I am certain that the first person to say this and all of those thereafter that repeated the words knew little about corporate life.
Nor should they.

"An afternoon is an average man's week"

Now thats how I live my life....
And I still have time for a coffee break :)