Anime Central AMV COntest Due Date

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:57 pm

seijin_dinger wrote:
I take it you are sending an entry in Vlad?

if so Good luck to ya

Thanks, Ya I am.. I like Acens contest.... Now I just have to get down there one of these days

Vlad

Seijin_Dinger · Post by **Seijin_Dinger** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 5:31 pm

what Category?

SailorDeath · Post by **SailorDeath** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 9:37 am

dwchang wrote:I still suggest an FTP be made available. I guarantee the # of entries (or at least on-time-entries) will increase since it's so much easier.

Yeah I know, I really wish we did have the FTP, the reason we don't is due to the large cost involved in setting one up. Which means we'd probably have to go with a 3rd party. The reason we didn't try adn find something this year is primarily the result of Quu's retirement. I'm overloaded with stuff as it is with just getting the 24 hour room, Iron Chef, what we alreday have for the amv contest, add 30 hours a week for work, and 20 hours a week for classes and I have absolutely no time to do anything else. That's why I'm having Dan help me oout with a lot of the stuff. I decided to concentrate on the more pressing issues this year. Next year I'm going to try and find a way to get an ftp going for acen.

Brsrk · Post by **Brsrk** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 11:32 am

After finding out last night that there was an extension, I have more time to start one of my newer ideas (i've got 4 days off coming, up, and all I plan on doing is editing). Woo!

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:16 pm

SailorDeath wrote:
dwchang wrote:I still suggest an FTP be made available. I guarantee the # of entries (or at least on-time-entries) will increase since it's so much easier.
Yeah I know, I really wish we did have the FTP, the reason we don't is due to the large cost involved in setting one up. Which means we'd probably have to go with a 3rd party. The reason we didn't try adn find something this year is primarily the result of Quu's retirement. I'm overloaded with stuff as it is with just getting the 24 hour room, Iron Chef, what we alreday have for the amv contest, add 30 hours a week for work, and 20 hours a week for classes and I have absolutely no time to do anything else. That's why I'm having Dan help me oout with a lot of the stuff. I decided to concentrate on the more pressing issues this year. Next year I'm going to try and find a way to get an ftp going for acen.

You could run one at home. Filezilla not only offers an ftp client but also has a free ftp server. The only costs would be a hishspeed cable connection which you already might have. The only downside is that your ISP might not like the sudden massive downloading you are doing. I don't know if this is a problem for you as it depends on if the ISP will notice and if they care that you download a lot. Typically they care if you are constantly uploading.

Seijin_Dinger · Post by **Seijin_Dinger** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:30 pm

I used WarFTP for the Sakura-Con server run off my computer

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:42 pm

Corran wrote: You could run one at home. Filezilla not only offers an ftp client but also has a free ftp server. The only costs would be a hishspeed cable connection which you already might have. The only downside is that your ISP might not like the sudden massive downloading you are doing.

The other downside is the cost of keeping the server running and secure, which isn't nearly as easy as it sounds, especially for a public FTP.

SailorDeath · Post by **SailorDeath** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:53 pm

Corran wrote: You could run one at home. Filezilla not only offers an ftp client but also has a free ftp server. The only costs would be a hishspeed cable connection which you already might have. The only downside is that your ISP might not like the sudden massive downloading you are doing. I don't know if this is a problem for you as it depends on if the ISP will notice and if they care that you download a lot. Typically they care if you are constantly uploading.

Well the probelm with that is I have DSL, with only a 768k download pipe that's also shared with my brother. Plus it's a little to late to orchestrate that. If I want to do it right I'll need to build a website that does user accounts, ftp account, video record creation etc.

Though I am building a linux server at the moment, what I'm going to do with it I have no idea, but I can always contemplate the idea, the other big issue with the ftp is that I'm lackin in space to host all the submissions.

Currently the big HDD's are running on the primary system which I keep protected behind a firewall and I won't be opening up any ports on it soon for ftp access. Plus they house all of the AMVs we show in the video room.

I also use verizon as an ISP, and I get lots, (I'm talking 100 an hour) of hits from systems infected with all kinds of nasty things, so the firewall won't come down for anything.

The server I'm building could possibly be used for that but if I implemented something like that, I'd defintely be capping the speed and number of users that can connected to it. But the server is far from being ready, having never used linux before in my life, I'm plagued with lots of bugs/problems that I need to fix before I can put it up.

Seijin_Dinger · Post by **Seijin_Dinger** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 2:17 pm

wow thats a bit much

I did a website for video submissio, but I had 1 FTP login and didnt give people the ability to delete things

Org Profile · Post by **Vlad G Pohnert** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 2:28 pm

seijin_dinger wrote:wow thats a bit much

I did a website for video submissio, but I had 1 FTP login and didnt give people the ability to delete things

I have my own web server... so both the contests I run will have a common FTP site with different folders

Vlad