We are thrilled to announce that the Beta version of www.funfoll.com has been successfully moved to a dedicated server, located in Germany. We have acquired the dedicated server about 3 days ago, and we moved the website yesterday. Now www.funfoll.com works much faster than ever before. The website is very responsive and the surfing experience is very pleasant.
If things go well, we intend to buy another dedicated server in March, to cover the North and South American continents, as we desire www.funfoll.com to work as fast as possible regardless of the country in which it is viewed.
Here's something for the loyal readers, the very first www.funfoll.com funny link from this blog.
P.S.: Oh, and yes, the language of the website is currently stuck on Romanian, we got a bug there ::- D. It's going to be fixed on Monday, don't worry.
Devil Cat
Saturday, 23 February 2008
Sunday, 17 February 2008
Beta Version Online
We are happy to announce that the Beta version of www.funfoll.com has finally hit the stores. This happened two days ago, on Friday, February the 15th. The Alpha and Beta versions were released according to plan, and right now, we are busy working at the final version of the website. We hope that we will be able to launch it as planned. The upcoming week will see us move to dedicated hosting, since this is vital to a well functioning website.
The official launch date of www.funfoll.com has remained set to the 29th of February, but as I have said before, this all depends on how our development team can cope with the remaining problems to be fixed and the new functionality to be added.
Our sweet www.funfoll.com also has Google's AdSense running on it. We have just set it up the same day we launched the Beta. We hope we can move it to a dedicated server as soon as possible, as we really need to start popularizing the website, and this can't be done on the current shitty co-located server.
This is my reward for you for reading this post. It's also the last time I'll post a non-FunFoll link here.
Crazy Catz
The official launch date of www.funfoll.com has remained set to the 29th of February, but as I have said before, this all depends on how our development team can cope with the remaining problems to be fixed and the new functionality to be added.
Our sweet www.funfoll.com also has Google's AdSense running on it. We have just set it up the same day we launched the Beta. We hope we can move it to a dedicated server as soon as possible, as we really need to start popularizing the website, and this can't be done on the current shitty co-located server.
This is my reward for you for reading this post. It's also the last time I'll post a non-FunFoll link here.
Crazy Catz
Thursday, 14 February 2008
Finally, A Working Server
Pfew. We finally managed to get www.funfoll.com working on the IX Web Hosting server. They enabled the PDO MySQL driver for us after more than two weeks of waiting. This is a very good thing because we got rid of the iFrame which messed things up for us. We also can stay a bit more on this server before moving to dedicated hosting. This is also because the move to dedicated hosting is going to take a bit of time. So we won't move to dedicated this week. We will do it next week.
The Beta version of the website is on schedule for launch tomorrow, however, we did start to have some doubts about how and when to launch the final version. Our intention was to launch the website on the 29th of February. However, this seems to be harder and harder at the moment. Many unplanned things hampered us in the past weeks and this is having a negative impact on what we thought to be a very relaxed time-line for the release date.
Our company will also travel to CeBit this year, and this further stresses our development team, as we would wish to present some of our software there. Anyway, we will try our best to finish www.funfoll.com in due time for its planned release. However, we will NOT PUBLISH SOMETHING UNFINISHED. I would rather postpone the release of the website rather than publishing a crap job. We will try to create something of near-perfect quality, and when we are happy with what we have, we will also launch it.
And here's the more-than-usual reward for reading one of my posts ::- D. This is an excellent game which will also be featured on www.funfoll.com. Let's hope www.funfoll.com will rule all ::- D.
Great Game with Great Idea
The Beta version of the website is on schedule for launch tomorrow, however, we did start to have some doubts about how and when to launch the final version. Our intention was to launch the website on the 29th of February. However, this seems to be harder and harder at the moment. Many unplanned things hampered us in the past weeks and this is having a negative impact on what we thought to be a very relaxed time-line for the release date.
Our company will also travel to CeBit this year, and this further stresses our development team, as we would wish to present some of our software there. Anyway, we will try our best to finish www.funfoll.com in due time for its planned release. However, we will NOT PUBLISH SOMETHING UNFINISHED. I would rather postpone the release of the website rather than publishing a crap job. We will try to create something of near-perfect quality, and when we are happy with what we have, we will also launch it.
And here's the more-than-usual reward for reading one of my posts ::- D. This is an excellent game which will also be featured on www.funfoll.com. Let's hope www.funfoll.com will rule all ::- D.
Great Game with Great Idea
Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Alpha Version Online!
A few days ago we launched the Alpha Version of www.funfoll.com. This is a big event for us. Unfortunately, I was a bit too busy to post about it here. But alas, better late than never. The website can, of course, be accessed at it's official address, www.funfoll.com but this is not really the host of the website. At this address, there is but a simple file which opens the website in an iFrame. The website is hosted on a server here at our company, Wildcard Technologies. Why are we in this situation?
It's simple. Our host, IX Web Hosting, is the worst host I have ever come across. If you're reading this, remember to stay away from them. They're a crappy co-located host with no respect whatsoever for their clients, which is to be expected, of course, for the price of 12$/month which we pay for hosting our stuff there. Even so, they could have helped us with our problems, but didn't. We had a simple issue, we needed a PDO MySQL driver installed. Actually, not even installed, just enabled. Today marks the 10th day since our initial request for this driver. No answer to this day. I have spent 3 chats with members from their support department and I got the same stupid answers: wait, please wait, we're working on it, etc.. Lies. The reason I am so angry on IX Web Hosting is that they are a bunch of liars. I would have preferred a straight "we won't enable it + reason" answer, rather than waiting an eternity for a non-answer. This is the most unfair thing to do to a client: keep him/her waiting in a line for weeks. IX Web Hosting sucks and I suggest you to stay away from them, go to Blue Host or Lunar Pages or whatever. I know that we're going for dedicated hosting with this website because co-located hosting is bad no matter how you look at it. IX Web Hosting did answer tickets usually around 2 to 8 hours and they have a non stop chat service. They have a good package and reasonable support, unless you need more complex stuff, case in which they will lie to you, they will deceive you, they will make you scream in anger and frustrate you. Stay away!
Ok... so for now, we got www.funfoll.com at a temporary location. But we'll launch the Beta version of the website on the 15th of February, and that will feature dedicated hosting and a great deal of bandwidth and performance. Let's all hope that things will go well.
Let's laugh a bit together before www.funfoll.com is launched!
Great examples of stupidity
It's simple. Our host, IX Web Hosting, is the worst host I have ever come across. If you're reading this, remember to stay away from them. They're a crappy co-located host with no respect whatsoever for their clients, which is to be expected, of course, for the price of 12$/month which we pay for hosting our stuff there. Even so, they could have helped us with our problems, but didn't. We had a simple issue, we needed a PDO MySQL driver installed. Actually, not even installed, just enabled. Today marks the 10th day since our initial request for this driver. No answer to this day. I have spent 3 chats with members from their support department and I got the same stupid answers: wait, please wait, we're working on it, etc.. Lies. The reason I am so angry on IX Web Hosting is that they are a bunch of liars. I would have preferred a straight "we won't enable it + reason" answer, rather than waiting an eternity for a non-answer. This is the most unfair thing to do to a client: keep him/her waiting in a line for weeks. IX Web Hosting sucks and I suggest you to stay away from them, go to Blue Host or Lunar Pages or whatever. I know that we're going for dedicated hosting with this website because co-located hosting is bad no matter how you look at it. IX Web Hosting did answer tickets usually around 2 to 8 hours and they have a non stop chat service. They have a good package and reasonable support, unless you need more complex stuff, case in which they will lie to you, they will deceive you, they will make you scream in anger and frustrate you. Stay away!
Ok... so for now, we got www.funfoll.com at a temporary location. But we'll launch the Beta version of the website on the 15th of February, and that will feature dedicated hosting and a great deal of bandwidth and performance. Let's all hope that things will go well.
Let's laugh a bit together before www.funfoll.com is launched!
Great examples of stupidity
Wednesday, 16 January 2008
Delay
As I have said on the sister-blog, FunFoll @ WordPress, we are running a bit late with development on the website because of some pesky clients. But rest assured, we'll have a beta version online at the beginning of February and the 29th of February will see the launch of www.funfoll.com in it's first complete version. But of course, lots of improvements will come after ::- D.
And now, because we're FunFoll, here's something nice...
Ass on the beach
And now, because we're FunFoll, here's something nice...
Ass on the beach
Monday, 7 January 2008
New Layouts Received
So the Holidays are over. Work now resumes at www.funfoll.com with full speed ::- ). Our designer has just finished the layouts for two more sections of the website. Right here is the content page, which will be used to display the extraordinarily funny stuff we'll have on www.funfoll.com. Really!
More to follow as development continues. For now we have not updated the main website because development is still in early stages for the content section.
As usual, a special link for the fanatics still reading this boring blog ;;- )
The Greatest Prank ever
More to follow as development continues. For now we have not updated the main website because development is still in early stages for the content section.
As usual, a special link for the fanatics still reading this boring blog ;;- )
The Greatest Prank ever
Thursday, 27 December 2007
Website Alpha Version Online & Belated Wishes
The FunFoll Team wishes you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Sorry for the belated wish, but this is a busy time for all of us. We are trying to bring FunFoll online as soon as possible and this, of course, is not easy at all. We are doing more than it is humanly possible in all directions. Due to these efforts, we now have a very early version of the website online at www.funfoll.com. This version is but a stub which we will use for further development. We put this online only for Google to "see us" better, this version doesn't do much ::- ). However, January will see a number of intermediary releases which will start presenting some real functionality.
And, as usual... here's something funny for any loyal readers ::- ).
EXCELLENT funny texts - the second post rules!
And, as usual... here's something funny for any loyal readers ::- ).
EXCELLENT funny texts - the second post rules!
Sunday, 16 December 2007
Work in progress...
It's time for an update about www.funfoll.com. This week, Friday, we should have a beta version operational. This version will not be advertised in any way. It is only a private temporary version for Google to index and for us to study the behavior of the website in real life conditions, in an online environment.
The official launch of www.funfoll.com is scheduled for the 25th of January, 2008. We are not yet sure if we can make that deadline, but by all means, we will do our best! It's not an easy job, as we still have to implement the new design in the website as well as huge pile of functionality. But we got three good and talented people working on this. In any case, we won't go officially online until we are sure the website has no bugs and we have at least two dedicated servers, one for Germany and one for the United States of America.
And a little funny reward for all you readers...
Unintentional Illusion
The official launch of www.funfoll.com is scheduled for the 25th of January, 2008. We are not yet sure if we can make that deadline, but by all means, we will do our best! It's not an easy job, as we still have to implement the new design in the website as well as huge pile of functionality. But we got three good and talented people working on this. In any case, we won't go officially online until we are sure the website has no bugs and we have at least two dedicated servers, one for Germany and one for the United States of America.
And a little funny reward for all you readers...
Unintentional Illusion
Tuesday, 4 December 2007
Design Proposal For www.funfoll.com
Well, here it is... the design proposal for our sweet www.funfoll.com ::- D. I hope you like it. The color scheme is not final yet, but we're working on that. Of course, this is just a proposal and int he end the website will look a lot better. There are also all sorts of great functionalities which our website will feature, but more on that in a future post.
Thursday, 29 November 2007
More about FunFoll
Did I say I am The Writer? Yes, I did. That's why I'm writing again. I'm very, very prolific ::- D. www.funfoll.com is approaching the launch day with every passing moment so I said it would be good to say something more about the website and how tings are going. So... we've been mainly working at the functionality of the website. We are about to contact a good designer next week and see what he comes up with. After that, we're probably going to fine tune it and integrate it in the website.
Right now, we finished the content management section and the main menu and the basic pages. We need to add comments and ratings functionalities as well as tweak the functionality here and there. We also need some automatic redirection classes in PHP in order to share the load between the two dedicated servers which we're going to purchase.
Oh, and one more thing. I saw today some entertainment websites. The "rivals", practically. Some of them are really crappy. Really really crappy. I can't believe some of the garbage you can see you there. I would be ashamed of myself to have such website online as some of the ones I've seen today. I will make sure that www.funfoll.com will be a great website. www.funfoll.com shall rule ::- D. Of course, we don't have extraordinary ambitions for now, but we do hope to be one of the main entertainment websites on the internet.
Right now, we finished the content management section and the main menu and the basic pages. We need to add comments and ratings functionalities as well as tweak the functionality here and there. We also need some automatic redirection classes in PHP in order to share the load between the two dedicated servers which we're going to purchase.
Oh, and one more thing. I saw today some entertainment websites. The "rivals", practically. Some of them are really crappy. Really really crappy. I can't believe some of the garbage you can see you there. I would be ashamed of myself to have such website online as some of the ones I've seen today. I will make sure that www.funfoll.com will be a great website. www.funfoll.com shall rule ::- D. Of course, we don't have extraordinary ambitions for now, but we do hope to be one of the main entertainment websites on the internet.
Wednesday, 28 November 2007
FunFoll Blog Launched!
Well, hello to everybody reading this (which is, I guess, nobody hehe). But anyway, that never got in the way for me. I can talk and nobody can listen. That's why I'm a mental case after all ::- D. So... what's with this blog? Well, it represents my and my friend's company's biggest project to date. The uber-website www.funfoll.com
No, the website isn't online. YET. But it will be soon. www.funfoll.com will be an entertainment website of the highest quality. At first, we'll use other websites as source for video content, but not for long. We just need to start making some money off Google's commercials so that we can pay for more servers. Right now, we are about to invest about 1500 euro in design and web hosting in order to properly launch our website. The website will contain not only videos and will be a fantastic hub where to mint-rub!!! ::-D.
So, since we're in the mint rubbing industry, here's a toast to all ya mint rubbas' out there ::- ). I hope our website will provide everybody with a quality mint-rubbing experience, lots of laugh (and thus, health). Oh, and I almost forgot. www.funfoll.com will allow you to upload new stuff on it, however, there will be moderators at work when approving content, since we won't accept having shitty stuff...
That's it for now, I'll be back soon with more info. Oh, what did you say? Who am I? Why... that's really not important now. Suffice to say that I'm The Writer. Yeah. Call me that. The Writer. I Write stuff ::- D.
No, the website isn't online. YET. But it will be soon. www.funfoll.com will be an entertainment website of the highest quality. At first, we'll use other websites as source for video content, but not for long. We just need to start making some money off Google's commercials so that we can pay for more servers. Right now, we are about to invest about 1500 euro in design and web hosting in order to properly launch our website. The website will contain not only videos and will be a fantastic hub where to mint-rub!!! ::-D.
So, since we're in the mint rubbing industry, here's a toast to all ya mint rubbas' out there ::- ). I hope our website will provide everybody with a quality mint-rubbing experience, lots of laugh (and thus, health). Oh, and I almost forgot. www.funfoll.com will allow you to upload new stuff on it, however, there will be moderators at work when approving content, since we won't accept having shitty stuff...
That's it for now, I'll be back soon with more info. Oh, what did you say? Who am I? Why... that's really not important now. Suffice to say that I'm The Writer. Yeah. Call me that. The Writer. I Write stuff ::- D.
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