I am done with Enom

Webinsane

Ok...it has been 10 years and it is time to let go. I am looking for a new reseller. Enom days are over...

PJH

I just got my own server and became my own reseller.

Parallels (supplied with my hosting package) isn't the greatest software ever, but at least I control most, if not all, of the server since I have ssh access to it.

Avram

I think @Webinsane is talking about domain name reseller. Hosting (dedicated server) is not a problem.

Keith

@PJH said:

I just got my own server and became my own reseller.

Parallels (supplied with my hosting package) isn't the greatest software ever, but at least I control most, if not all, of the server since I have ssh access to it.

Did you call it PJHosting?

accalia

if he did i am sending him a box of chocolates or something.

PJH

No - and it's not the server where my Discourse instance is being hosted.

accalia

oh.

no chocolates for you! (from me... this time...)

Keith

@PJH said:

No - and it's not the server where my Discourse instance is being hosted.

You could have called it PJHosting.

Zecc

That's not how you check if a domain is free.

http://www.whois.net/whois/pjhosting.com

Keith

@PJH said:

No - and it's not the server where my Discourse instance is being hosted.

You could have called it PJHosting.

accalia

i was going to say not anymore but it seems my DNS registrar has raised their prices 300% in the last month... it was worth $10 to be funny, but it's not worth $30.

Keith

http://register.cheap-domainregistration.com/domains/searchresults.aspx?prog_id=domains&pl_id=241&ci=83269

$8.99 there. You should really give @PJH a chance to claim it though; he's likely still reeling from the awesomeness of the domain name and may just need a little more time to recover.

PJH

I wouldn't bother :)

aliceif

$10 -> $30 is a 200% increase, if my maths are right.

accalia

maths were never my strong point....

accalia

for $30 it's not that funny.

would have been worth the $10.... maybe.

Monarch

currect me if i am wrung

$10 -> $30 price increase by 200% of its initial price
product incurred 200% price increase

$10 -> $30 product cost increased to 300% of the initial price
product is now 3x more expensive
product is now 300% more expensive

product cost 3x its original price
product cost 300% its original price

@accalia said:

maths were never my strong point....

nothing that good semantics can't fix

aliceif

No. No. NO.

300% AS EXPENSIVE == 200% MORE EXPENSIVE.
80% AS EXPENSIVE == 20% LESS EXPENSIVE

Monarch

semantics / marketing than thanks for correction

english was never my strong point

accalia

sorry, but i'm going to have to go with the 16-bit lady in the red cape on this one

(@aliceif, and the only reason i know it's 16 bit is the colour gamut used is outside that that could be rendered in 8bit graphics*)

_{* it could be 32 bit graphics, retro style. there is insufficient data to prove that the avatar is 16 bit only ad the 32bit colour gamut completely encloses the 16 bit colour gamut.}

PleegWat

I'm with alice and accalia.

I don't know whether this error is just a new thing, or an americanism. It used to be done properly in dutch media, but nowadays the '3 times more' for what used to be called '3 times as much' is getting common...

riking

@PJH said:

No - and it's not the server where my Discourse instance is being hosted.

You could have called it PJHosti.ng. for just $ 187.07 per year!

Buddy

Pedantry: The image is 16×16 = 256 pixels. An 8-bit color palette can contain 2⁸ = 256 colors.

accalia

Yes, but unless you are encoding a 16 or 32bit colour map the colours used in that avatar cannot be represented using 8bit colours.

This is what i was referring to. The colours are outside of the gamut of colours available in 8bit colour encoding.

Edit: and you can call that counterpedantry

FrostCat

@accalia said:

Yes, but unless you are encoding a 16 or 32bit colour map the colours used in that avatar cannot be represented using 8bit colours.

Fun fact: the EGA spec actually allows for 16 simultaneous colors from a palette of 64 colors. It's just most games didn't palette-switch. So it's theoretically possible that avatar COULD be EGA--I don't know for certain as I don't think I've ever seen the alternate colors.

Webinsane

You guys are kings of offtopic

Reasons to move from Enom: price, service, bad asp programming (something is constantly breaking)

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Luhmann

@accalia said:

maths were never my strong point....

I would put them among the same level as you spellar & pronunciation skills

dkf

@Webinsane said:

You guys are kings of offtopic

We offtopic therefore we are.

Onyx

@dkf said:

We offtopic therefore we are.

We think therefore we... OOOH! FLAMEWAR!

accalia

@Luhmann said:

as you spellar & pronunciation skills

yep...

accalia

I'ma just leave this full, complete EGA colour pallet here for your perusal.

Onyx

I understand now! Windows 8 was designed to work in EGA!

accalia

that and @aliceif's avatar still contains colours outside of the gamut of colours available to 8bit graphics.

care to try again @frostcat?

boomzilla

@Onyx said:

I understand now! Windows 8 was designed to work in EGA!

Hercules is all that anyone needs.

boomzilla

Every time I see this thread I read it as "Enron" and then I think of Former Enron Advisor Paul Krugman.

Zecc

@boomzilla said:

Every time I see this thread I read it as

Jaloopa

I keep thinking enums, especially since I don't know who/what an Enom is

Keith

@Jaloopa said:

I keep thinking enums, especially since I don't know who/what an Enom is

I thought it was a Yorkshire pie.

blakeyrat

I don't think anybody's bothered to explain yet what the fuck we're talking about.

Enom is a reseller of... some... thing? And I guess from webinsane's post above, they do something with .asp programming?

That's all I know.

Yamikuronue

@Avram said:

I think @Webinsane is talking about domain name reseller.

^ That's the best guess I've seen as to WTF is going on.

blakeyrat

But why would a registrar need/do .asp programming?

Or was that just a really roundabout way of saying their website is both in .asp and also buggy?

Either way, the point is: don't complain about people going off-topic when nobody knows what the topic even is. (We'll go off-topic even if we do know what the topic is, but you're allow to complain then.)

Yamikuronue

Enom - Wikipedia

It seems the OP trusted some random third party nobody's ever heard of to not only sell them a domain and hosting but also build the site. Then the site sucked.

boomzilla

@Yamikuronue said:

It seems the OP trusted

@Webinsane

Truth in naming.

blakeyrat

Sometimes I get reminded I own the domain name "webluminary.com". I really gotta use it for something.

accalia

@blakeyrat said:

(We'll go off-topic even if we do know what the topic is, but you're allow to complain then.)

QFT

mott555

I had a domain name from eNom once. It was a massive WTF and I moved away from them. The biggest issue was they kept auto-signing me up for obscure web services (SEO, mobile optimization, stuff that doesn't even make sense since I only used them for the domain name and not for hosting and development) without telling me and then charging my card. Thankfully (?) my credit card was stolen, had to cancel it with the bank, and then their auto-charges failed and I didn't have to go through the hassle of actually cancelling my service with them.

I still get fake email invoices for this old domain name I haven't owned or used in years.