Simfile Database

[Rebirth0]

Re: Simfile Database

I'm not even sure if it it would have song genres like that. If anything, when submitting a file, you would have the genre field a blank text box and you would name the genre yourself.

The best search options are obviously by file name or by simfile artist. Or solo/singles

[Sidek]

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Good Idea Rebirth

[who_cares973]

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i think being able to select the genre from a pre-selected list of genres would be cool and an easy way for people to find files for songs they might like(searching for metal files kpop breakcore etc)

also +1 for simfiledb.com of filecentral.com or stepmaniathedatabase.com

[dAnceguy117]

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filecentral.com

sounds too much like a generic file sharing site

stepmaniathedatabase.com

I vote this one ^^^^^

[Choofers]

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lol if it were mega-gay it would be like "pick a genre and then a sub-genre"
just make them somewhat general

everything is techno

[Rebirth0]

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If we're seriously considering doing this, we need to get some information first. We need to know how much we would expect to be paying per month for a website that could be hosting eventually over 100 GB worth of downloads and perhaps terabytes of download bandwidth per month.

And we'd need more financial support than just me.

[Ohaider]

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a lot of creative and useful things could come out of this

[who_cares973]

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If we're seriously considering doing this, we need to get some information first. We need to know how much we would expect to be paying per month for a website that could be hosting eventually over 100 GB worth of downloads and perhaps terabytes of download bandwidth per month.

And we'd need more financial support than just me.

make your own server it'll be cheaper in the end

[rayword45]

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If this were to be done, would we FINALLY be able to retrieve our old files from pre-crash days? Last time we inquired, Velocity said there was no space on the site.

[who_cares973]

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http://www.midphase.com/server-hosting/

the xeon E3 seems like what we would need

more options

http://www.singlehop.com/server-hosting/dedicated-servers/

[Rebirth0]

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WC: I would have to buy all the stuff to make a server and my internet isn't very good anymore so it wouldn't be able to handle downloads

rayword: Doubt it. This would be something completely different than the FFR database. It's not about retrieving old files, its about building a new database to put everything on. Starting from scratch

[TC_Halogen]

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Why not just use a regular webhost for something like this? Being that it's only offering downloads, you don't need something extremely intensive.

Find a webhost that allows a large amount of space, and then figure out how to have account-based storage on it (just like the other simfile databases had).

[cedolad]

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Why not just use a regular webhost for something like this? Being that it's only offering downloads, you don't need something extremely intensive.

Find a webhost that allows a large amount of space, and then figure out how to have account-based storage on it (just like the other simfile databases had).

This.

[Rebirth0]

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That's what I figured anyway. I'm pretty sure I had unlimited bandwidth and like 500 GB of space on redfraction.us, which is why I was planning big projects that never got done. And that was for $10 per month

[Charlo]

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"Unlimited" bandwidth is not really unlimited. It's basically, "use as much as you want until other users on your shared server start feeling it". The fine print usually says something about how they're allowed to terminate you if you start using excessive server resources. But it would be smart to start off with a dirt-cheap hosting plan, for two reasons, 1: this might not ever get popular enough to require TB's of data transfer and 2: cheap hosts might tolerate tons of data transfer and storage as long as you're not eating CPU and memory with tons of computation.

However, if it got to the point where data transfer is an issue, a dedicated server would be the answer. Disk space should not be an issue since disk space is cheap, cheap, cheap and we're only hosting simfiles, not streaming video or anything intense like that. The problem with dedicated servers is that they're expensive, usually around $200 a month for the low-end.