Ackart 10 Posted June 2, 2009 (edited) Update! The site is up now and we are accepting applications! http://www.arma-creations.com! Hello all, I've been looking around the ArmA community, and I've seen that while there are quite a few sites that provide downloads for missions and general news posts, the only site I've found so far that openly advertises project hosting is ArmAHolic. We currently offer something similar to the Half-Life community with piles of bandwith and more disk space than what we know to do with. What I proposed to him was a similar site for the Armed Assault series, that would provide hosting for addon/modification projects, squad pages and the miscellaneous things that grow in a game community; and we could offer unlimited hosting for these sites for free. So, basically, it's my job to see if there's any interest in this sort of site. Download hosting for mods/tools/missions and what have you is obvious, but that wouldn't be the main focus. The features we would provide: No bandwith throttling and no disk space limitations Unlimited E-Mail Accounts and MySQL Databases Subversion (SVN) databases A subdomian (IE: myawesomeproject.armacreations.com) The second item, a weekly community Podcast. Something else my friend works on is something called Podcast 17, which provides a weekly review of all the activity in the Half-Life community from releases to interviews and shoutouts. I thought something similar for the ArmA community would be a nice venture, but once again, we'd like to gauge interest before going any further. I would love to hear any comments about this, and if you're interested in hosting right now please feel free to give me a shout. Thanks! Edited June 11, 2009 by Ackart Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
.kju 3240 Posted June 2, 2009 (edited) hello Ackart :) great initiative you have been going here! I would like to suggest that you and your team cooperate with dev-heaven on this topic. Your approach is somewhat different than ours, and has some additional great features in the pipe. :) In short we could combine your SVN hosts with our RedMine project management system. So people use some aspects of your site at the same time with other aspects on ours. You can read more about DevHeaven here: http://dev-heaven.net/ Looking forward to your thoughts. :) PM me your Skype acc please for real time chat, if you are interested. At the same time the community podcast is an outstanding initiative as well! There was a similar interviewing project by JerryHopper during A1 times, yet a regular, more often, podcast would be great! best regards .kju Edited June 2, 2009 by kju Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sickboy 13 Posted June 2, 2009 Very interesting indeed. Does have some overlap with DH, would be interested in ideas to combine forces, if you are interested aswell. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ackart 10 Posted June 2, 2009 (edited) Thanks kjo and Sickboy, it looks like we can do a lot of good together. :) This is going up over various places, figured I'd post it here as well. I am coming forward representing Half-Life Creations, a community website that for the Half-Life community, hosts projects, portfolios and community related content. We offer 100% free, no ad hosting to those who require it and we are looking at expanding our gaming horizons with a pilot website, ArmA-Creations (ARC). We are currently talking to many community members, player and developers to see if this is a venture that has promise. We are looking to provide the same great services that you can get from HLC, but under the ARC flagship. We are also looking into starting a weekly podcast, where anything ArmA related can be discussed from mission packs, to interviews with developers. What can we offer in terms of a hosting solution? * Post big news on the front page of ArmA Creations. * No ads . * All the space you need. * FTP access to upload your website. * Tech support upon request. * We support PHP 4/5 Full Unix Shell, CGI, Ruby on Rails, Canned CGI Scripts and MYSQL databases, you name it you can use it! * Have your own sub-domain! * Want your own email account with us? We can provide them for the head of the website. (We can now provide as many as you need!) * NEW Streaming video! Available in QuickTime or AVI formats. * NEW One Click installs for scripts like: WordPress, OpenX, Moodle, MediaWiki, Advanced Poll, phpbb and much more. Also, in working in collaboration with Dev-Heaven we aim to create a strong, organized backbone for your project management! This is one post of many where we are feeling for the need/want of the community to see if ArmA is the next game that the HLC brand of websites caters to and supports. Please check out the sample website below and let us know if there is indeed an interest or any questions or comments you may have. Not to mention that while the website may be coming soon we are currently accepting hosting applicatons. If you have any questions or you wish to get onboard, please feel free to send me an E-Mail at ackart@ragnarokarena.com Thanks for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you! You can find Half-Life Creations at http://www.half-lifecreations.com Our other Podcast, Podcast 17 can be found at http://www.podcast17.com/ Edited June 2, 2009 by Ackart Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ackart 10 Posted June 11, 2009 Just a bit of a heads up, but the site has launched! It can be found by easy access at http://www.arma-creations.com! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jerryhopper 285 Posted June 1, 2010 (edited) The second item, a weekly community Podcast. Something else my friend works on is something called Podcast 17, which provides a weekly review of all the activity in the Half-Life community from releases to interviews and shoutouts. I thought something similar for the ArmA community would be a nice venture, but once again, we'd like to gauge interest before going any further. I would love to hear any comments about this, and if you're interested in hosting right now please feel free to give me a shout. Thanks! About podcasting or something like that : You might wanna checkout what's already been done, or is being done at the moment. Be absurdly creative, do stuff different, but most of all: do your thing with pride and passion. I can tell you out of experience : Podcasting is hard and loads of work, and requires complete dedication. But if you do it right, the reward you get is more than worth it. with all this said, im suddenly thinking (again?!) : Maybe people should combine/join forces? (been there tried that, and fails on 'complete dedication.') You might wanna checkout the current ArmAPodcast series @ http://www.armapodcast.com/ Or, checkout my PAST ArmA podcasts/radio-shows. @ http://www.armedassault.eu/Table/Sahrani-Radio/Radio-Shows/menu-id-12.html Or go back in time even more, and check the 'radio check' OFP podcasts by tigershark @ http://www.sinewsofwar.com/Community/RadioCheckPodcasts/tabid/129/Default.aspx?ItemId=26 You could also break your brains over the upcoming 'ingame vodcast' format i'm working on @ http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=99234&highlight=sort+entertainment ( Expect a pilot vodcast in june ) And last, but certainly not least: Meet the father of my podcast inspiration, the creator of the legendary 'BattleTurdRadio' BF2 podcats series, my godlike podcast-teacher, the truly creative master, craziest american from indiana and very good friend : Brow from Webturd.com and his podcast archive @ http://armedassault.eu/radiostuff/battleturdradio/ Well, that summs it all up i guess. let me know what you thinking.... regards, Jerry Hopper SahraniRadio/Channel-6/CTV Edited June 1, 2010 by jerryhopper Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
