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I'm currently having my blog hosted on Wordpress.com. It is free and I don't have to worry about downtime. I'm far from satisfied however as it is simply too restrictive. The biggest issue is that I can't upload Lego related file formats. No *.nxc, *.rxe, *.ric, *.ldr and so on, not even *.zip is possible... I would also like to make a custom theme however Wordpress.com want money for just editing the CSS...

However I notice that, since I have started RICcreator on SF, I'm allowed to run a website on their servers about myself or my hobbies. They have automated the Wordpress installation procedure and uploading themes should also be possible. It most likely do not come with all the common plug-ins pre-installed like Wordpress.com though?
I have not seen any make use of this offer before though and Googling doesn't bring up any interesting pages (or it simply redirects to another domain)...

So I'm a bit unsure about this. Migrating the site isn't too bad, but I don't want to do it just to move it back.

Try 000webhost. They offer free 24/7 hosting, a free subdomain name, your own email, FTP, sitebuilder, PHP, MySQL, 1 click Wordpress, phpBB etc. - All free!

studbrickmaster wrote:Try 000webhost.

Looks nice, but the WOT scorecards (comments) don't seem too friendly.

I would stay with WordPress.com, despite the lack of .nxc/etc uploads.

I don't think putting your personal stuff on SourceForge would be safe - they might take it down. You should ask SF, if you do decide to switch.

Even if you did move to another free server (which lets you host WordPress), it'd probably be slower, and the downloads of your .rbt files may be faster on Box/other file sharing services. Although, you're probably only going to upload .nxc files, anyways.

studbrickmaster,
I do not trust these free feature rich web hosting, in general way to many users are experiencing issues.

muntoo,
(Btw, your have now been added to my spell checker.)
Considering that 90% of the uploaded files (other than images) are only a few KB large I'm much against redirecting to (and having to upload them on) a third-party site which doesn't provide direct downloading.
For many of my more recent constructions I also have LDraw files and I'm planning to post those on my blog in the near future.

As far as I understand, developer web is for personal stuff. The documentation for project web said:

Content and applications in project web space must be related to the project. For hosting of personal content, please instead use our developer web service.

The documentation for developer web simply said "content about you and your interests" and please do not run brute force cryptography cracking things.
Asking is, of course, always the safest option.

I don't know if this can be any help, but sometimes I change the extension on a file to make things work. For example, I might change "Example program.rbt" to "Example program.JPG", and then convert it back after. I don't remember how difficult/easy this is in XP or Vista, but it's as easy as can be in Windows 7.

I was about to suggest the same thing. It's easier to do in XP than in 7 actually, just because you only have to click twice, instead of three times. I'd imagine it'd be just as easy in Vista. I do suggest renaming the files to .txt though, it makes it easier to figure out what extension to rename it to later on, in case you forget what it was. Just open it up in Notepad (or similar) and you can figure out what kind of file it was before the renaming at least 50% of the time.

spillerrec wrote:They have automated the Wordpress installation procedure and uploading themes should also be possible. It most likely do not come with all the common plug-ins pre-installed like Wordpress.com though?

Although I don't use the developer web, I do use their installation of WordPress for NeXT Commander's news. It has some limitations (no theme changes only two themes, forces the title to be "SourceForge.net: Project nextcommander", probably won't let you install plugins, maybe more, I'll check.)

If I were you, I would leave your blog as-is, and simply host your files on the developer web space.

nxtreme wrote:...It's easier to do in XP than in 7 actually, just because you only have to click twice, instead of three times...

[OT]Hmm, I'm not sure even how to change it in XP. As far as Win7, all you have to do is select the file and press F2 (you have to have the settings set to display the file extensions though).[/OT]

mattallen37 wrote:

nxtreme wrote:...It's easier to do in XP than in 7 actually, just because you only have to click twice, instead of three times...

[OT]Hmm, I'm not sure even how to change it in XP. As far as Win7, all you have to do is select the file and press F2 (you have to have the settings set to display the file extensions though).[/OT]

Windows Explorer >> Tools >> Folder Options >> View >> Uncheck 'Hide Extentions for known file types'

Or just rename it to a file type that Windows has no idea what it is.

>> Or open it up in a viewer and click 'Save As'. Normally the viewer will automatically append the default file extension to the end, so you need to encase both the file name and extension in double quotes. eg: "document.txt" or "coolpic.png"

nxtreme wrote:I was about to suggest the same thing. It's easier to do in XP than in 7 actually, just because you only have to click twice, instead of three times. I'd imagine it'd be just as easy in Vista. I do suggest renaming the files to .txt though, it makes it easier to figure out what extension to rename it to later on, in case you forget what it was. Just open it up in Notepad (or similar) and you can figure out what kind of file it was before the renaming at least 50% of the time.

Problems (please excuse the horrible grammar to consistency/oomph trade-off):

• Not everyone has "view file extensions" enabled in Windows.
• Not everyone has Windows.
• Not everyone knows what file extensions are. (Different OS, not geeky, etc.)
• Not everyone can guess what extension to change it to. (If you use myfile.ldd.txt, the problems above still apply.)

Short version: It'll just confuse readers (maybe even me ) of Spiller's blog, so I don't recommend it.

EDIT: Wow, I've been ninja'd* twice! Rare moment on these forums.
* Yes, I know the content in both posts is slightly dissimilar to mine, but still a rare moment.