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Contest for Feb 2010
No I'm not doing a Valentine's related contest, however if you really feel that way about us you can incorporate it into this month's entries.
This month we're moving away from poetry and into creative news.
Write a fake news story related to L2P. Make it short, a headline and a brief recap will be fine. Make it as farkish as you like. Just amuse us.
The winner will receive 500 RDP. In addition, you will receive 50 PBPP just for participating.
As always, head here to begin.
1st Contest for year 2010
Due to poster requests I'm going to make this one in limerick form. The rules are simple, create a limerick about one of the topics listed below and make me laugh. The winner will receive 500 RDP. Plus, since I'm enjoying doing this, you will receive 50 points just for participating.
Your choices are:
L2P in general including staff members
Struggles of creating or maintaining websites
The concept of free hosting
A sum up of 2009
A hope for 2010
I can't wait to see what you creative people come up with this time!
Meet me in the bistro here to find the contest.
Happy New Year!
All of us at L2P want to wish you a safe and happy new year.
Happy Holidays from L2P!
Happy Holidays from all of us here at L2P!
Also don't forget about Tess' contest here!
Pay by Trial(tm) Webhosting - A new product from L2P
It brings me great pleasure to announce a new product from the team at L2P: Pay by Trial(tm) Webhosting.
What is Pay by Trial(tm) Webhosting?
Pay by Trial(tm) Webhosting is a new product of Lifelesspeople.com, the first to bring you Pay by Post(tm) Webhosting in 2002. This new webhosting product utilizes Trialpay to allow you to purchase your webhosting services at little or no cost to you.
What is Trialpay?
Trialpay is an innovative new payment method that allows you to pay for your webhosting services by signing up for offers from popular advertisers such as Netflix, Real, and eMusic. These popular advertisers pay us for each referral we send to them which allows us to offer webhosting services at little or no cost to you!
How does Pay by Trial(tm) Webhosting work?
Pay by Trial(tm) Webhosting begins with clicking a link on our website taking you to the TrialPay payment page. Signing up with Trialpay is quick and easy taking less than 5 minutes. After confirming your account with Trialpay, you will be presented with offers from various advertisers. The advertisers and offers will vary depending on account level and the geographic area where you are located. After completing the offer with the advertiser, you will receive a confirmation from Trialpay providing you with additional information about your purchase with Lifelesspeople.com. We will activate your account within 3 business days of receiving notification from Trialpay that you have completed the process.
Is Pay by Trial(tm) Webhosting compatible with Pay by Post(tm) Webhosting?
Yes, you can use a combination of these two products to extend your webhosting account beyond the 6 months available with completing an offer. When you complete an offer, your account will be credited with RDP equivalent to 6 months at the plan level selected.
Notes: We do not allow account downgrades when using Pay by Trial(tm) Webhosting. Your account is automatically converted to a Pay by Post(tm) Webhosting account at the end of 6 months unless an additional offer is completed to renew your account.
You can find signup links here.
Happy Holidays Contest
This time of year I'm told some people actually get very busy with stuff and things so let's do something fun that will also relieve just a tad of posting stress.
Express your feelings about "something L2P" in haiku form. "Something" can be an admin or the forums or the community itself just remember the posting rules in general. The winner will be the one that makes us laugh the hardest and will receive 500 RDP.
In addition, as our gift to you the haiku post will garner you an extra 50 PBPP just for participating. Limit is one per account.
Follow this link to the bistro!
Asgard Downtime - Failed upgrade to FreeBSD 8.0
As most of you have probably noticed, the Asgard server experienced some downtime over the last 24 hours.
The downtime was caused by a failed upgrade to FreeBSD 8.0.
Asgard was upgraded to FreeBSD 8.0 using the source build method we we have used to upgrade since FreeBSD 5. This allows us to build optimized binaries and customize the server as needed.
The upgrade proceeded normally with no build or install errors. Testing prior to reboot showed no unusual errors and everything was going as expected. This same process is used to upgrade hundreds of thousands of FreeBSD servers so it is well tested.
On reboot the server did not come back online. This meant we lacked SSH access and required additional support to bring the server back online.
The investigation into the error revealed that it was caused by an obscure bug in FreeBSD's handling of disk mount options. The exact code responsible has not been found, but we have developed a test case which should reveal the problem code with further testing. It is also important to note that several corrupt binaries hampered the recovery process considerably.
We believe this to be a software error, but it isn't possible to rule out a contributing hardware error. Testing has not shown any hardware errors at this time, but we are keeping a very close eye on everything to ensure smooth operations.
The upgrade procedure used has been reviewed and we will be taking extra precautions to ensure greater access to the server during future upgrades.
Thank you for your patience.
Front page content contest - RDP Prize
It is time again for yet another L2P content contest. We're deep in the middle of Project Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich and we could use your help.
What content should we put on the front page of http://www.lifelesspeople.com/ that shows what type of service and community we have here at L2P?
The person with the winning entry will be awarded 600 RDP!
Post your suggestion in the thread here to have it considered for the prize.
Thank you to Tess for the idea.
Pay by Post Point Changes
I've made a few modifications to the way Pay by Post Points are awarded for posting.
1) Starting new threads is now a great way to earn Pay by Post Points.
Thread starters have always been rewarded with a small fraction of a point for each reply to their thread, but now the reward has been massively increased. Starting a very popular thread could earn you 25 - 50% of your Pay by Post Point requirement for the month.
2) Longer replies are better to a point.
It is now easier than ever to earn your Pay by Post Points as a normal poster. Most of our forum members will like this change, but the cap on points has been lowered to compensate for the increase in points earned.
3) Now is the best time to convert your VSP to RDP.
The exchange rates for VSP to RDP have never been better. You can build up a large cache of RDP with the current exchange rates which have been put in place to encourage VSP usage.
Any feedback on the changes is appreciated.
State of the L2P: November 2009
Welcome to another State of the L2P!
As a few of you may have noticed, there have been some changes to the website and services.
Website Changes
You will notice several small changes on the http://www.lifelesspeople.com/ website itself as some things I've been working on are finally put on the live website.
The orange + buttons, bookmark, and subscribe buttons are powered by the website http://www.addthis.com/ . These will enable you to share content from L2P with others or follow the RSS feed from your favorite reader service.
The mobile redirects are now disabled while the website updates are progressing. This means your mobile device will no longer detected and redirected to a "mobile friendly" version of the forum. Many mobile devices now come with fully featured web browsers so this may no longer be necessary. I would appreciate any feedback on this so the website can be as user friendly as possible. :)
Server Changes
The security system at L2P has been updated to the next major version. This should help resolve some of the issues we've been seeing with forum posts being blocked for no apparent reason.
The comment/post spam filter had been nearly disabled for a long time due to problems with false positives. The newer version of this has been put in place after testing revealed no false positives with a very high hit rate (0 false positives with 29,000 confirmed spam comments blocked).
Please provide feedback on these changes so they can be improved.