My little webserver is underused, and sitting on a semi-fat T1 line at work, so I figured I could offer some space and bandwidth to you Xterra owners who wanted to share your pics or videos with the rest of us.

It's real simple, use the following user/password to connect to my site via FTP, and the images can be linked to or viewed by the following URL.
http://superjens.com/xterra/YOUR-IMAGE.DUH

The "YOUR-IMAGE.DUH" of course is your image, like "redtruck.jpg" or "roadkill.gif" etc.

Use an FTP program or do it manually, or just use IE if you know how, and connect to my site with the following username and password. Upload your image and knock yourself silly sharing your one-of-a-kind pictures with us. Then we'll make fun of you for your stickers and bush bars and speedometer pictures of you going 100 mph and everybody will have a good time.

address: ftp.superjens.com
user: xterra
password: xterra

Note that once you upload an image, you can't delete it or modify it. If you want something changed or deleted, send me email.

And I guess I have to actually say it, please only use this for XOC related things ok? No warez, no porn, and no crap from any of you or I'll just shut it off, easy as that. I could also set up individual usernames and passwords for everybody, but that smacks of effort and I'm lazy so you can all share the same account for now.

Jens

Well that's just mean .

Thank you Jens

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I can't find one place online that lets you load JPGS or GIFS ..etc on other pages.

Argggggg...

So what's your problem? Put them on my server and link away 'till your nuts fall off.

Seems as though webphotos has followed the path of photopoint and has shut down as well. I'm currently linking photos from my MSN communities page... it's working so far...

How do you know they'll eventually fall off?

You've tested this theory, haven't you, jenny?

Jenny?

I don't understand why so many of you have difficulty finding a place to post your pictures. You can find many ISP's that furnish you with a place for your own website when you subscribe with their service. I have www.swbell.net and have 2MB of my own free webspace.
Don't hang on to a bad Internet service provider. If they won't provide you with your own private webspace, go to one that will.
Check around, there are many of them.

It's not getting the space, it's about being able to link from outside sources. Many services don't allow outside linking.

I just won $10,000,000!!!

Just read you arnt going to be offering this much longer.... any truth to this?

Halfway true. My server is using my company's backup T1 line, which we haven't been using for anything until now. Traffic has grown to the point where we're going to start using it, and I didn't want my little server hogging up the bandwidth we'll need.

I was considering moving it to a pay-per-use webhosting service, but came to the realization that even if I keep pumping out 1 GB per day (which I am now) that still doesn't amount to a hill of beans compared to our total possible 1-GB per day.

How do I end up pushing 1 GB per day? Some of these pictures and videos that I'm hosting end up being linked to from other sites, while Xterra Owners Club is the biggest traffic generator (50,000 referrals in 80 days), the sum of all the other referrals is twice that.

What I'm going to do is put a cap on my server's uploading speeds -- right now it's (theoretically) 1.5 Mbps (T1 speed). I'll reduce it to less than half, which is still more than enough to get out pics and videos etc. Secondly I'm going to work on an ISAPI script that prevents referrals (linking) from sites other than XOC, Automotive Forums, and a few other Xterra related things.

This should prevent gross overuse of bandwidth, while still letting me do something I think is a lot of fun -- helping everybody out by having a place to host images and videos.

By the way, anybody know how to tweak ISAPI scripts? If you're not sure, you don't. If you do know how, I have an easy favor to ask, inquire within!

Yes - now that your nuts have fallen off.

SuperJens, why don't you just slap in one line that checks the referrer... If it's not from XOC, ditch the connection - or display a nice, "not gonna happen" page.

Failing that, disallow video. Or cap the sizes.

Slowing down the connection does work, but it just means your server will be busy, longer.

It's not all that busy, there aren't thousands of hits per second to worry about. However, when there's somebody sitting at home with a cable modem pulling files down at 150 KB/s, this puts a strain on the whole network that should not be eminating from this server. I'll have clients screaming that their file transfers are too slow, which is not a good thing.

I want to keep the site as open as possible for every Xterra owner. If you have a personal web page with pics of your truck, that kind of thing, this is what my server is here for. Like I said I like helping out other Xterra owners, this is one way I can.

To give you a better example, somebody posted that taco_wreck.wmv video, links propagated to every corner of the internet like you wouldn't believe. I'm not willing to sit here hosting crash videos for some rice burner forum, but I left it up anyways (the internet's attention span, as I've noticed, is about 3 days). Those 3 days were really heavy and potentially slowed down traffic to Xterra pics/vids.

There are ways around this, the ISAPI script being one of them. The other would be to rename a highly-linked file (which would quickly thwart outside links) and just recreate the shortcut in the appropriate thread here for us Xterra folk to continue downloading it.

Jens

Sorry Superjens, that was me that posted that taco_wreck video. I did it as a warning to other XOCers as to the idiots we share the OHV's with. I didn't intend it to bog down your server with all sorts of alien hits. I am sorry about that. I figure you can remove it now, since I am sure the traffic has died down to almost nothing (on that video).

KJ, don't sweat it, bandwidth wasn't a problem up until now so no harm no foul. It's only from now on that I'll need to keep an eye on usage.

anyone else having trouble getting in to FTP today?

Works for me ... anybody else having problems? What kind?

Had to type it out would not let me copy and paste

"An error occurred opening that folder on the FTP server. Make sure you have permission to access that folder.

Details:
200 type set to A.
500 Invalid PORT command
"

Thanx, Superjens!!! ^___^

I get the same error after typing in the password.

Thanks for allowing us to use your server for our pics & stuff! BTW, what (in as few words as possible) was the taco_wreck video about. I never saw it nor heard of it. I can get it from LimeWire, but I'm just curious that's all.... Thankx again!

Taco Wreck was an accident video, some ultra-maroon jumped a dune and landed almost on top of somebody else. Driver was last heard repeating "I am Sofa King, we todd it" over and over ...

It's amazing to me what some people do with their vehicles/bodies. Thanks for the info about the taco. I just finished looking @ your site too, superjen. Nice to say the least! The 18-Chad.html pic looks just like he's smoking the tires! Great photos thru-out. Keep it up! I bookmarked your site.
Later....

Just some steam after crossing a small stream on a very cold day. Chad is 'ozxterra', and posts here.

By the way (this goes to everybody), I pee standing up so it's superJENS not superJEN. It's one of those wacked out North European names, the J sounds like a Y.

Sorry "MAN", I simply didn't type in the "S". It wasn't that I was trying to do you any harm, nor trying to do anything... I simply left out the last letter... Look, you can call me Sonny*Daz, what the hell? :}

Daz, uh Daze, I wasn't trying to give you shit, sorry if I came across that way. I figured my would make that clear. Just saw three posts in a row where my name was misspelled and I figured this was a good place to point it out! "superjenny" is my favourite.

Cheers

No problem ....

Fellow Xterra pic and video fans,

superjens.com recently came up for renewal, and I spent a good month just thinking about whether or not keeping this up and running was worth it. Taking a look at the logs for the last three months, seeing how many new pics and videos are uploaded to my site by you guys, and taking note of the propagation of these linked images to other sites and forums all over the internet made me realize I should put my personal opinions in this matter aside. Obviously this is pretty popular and handy.

So far there are 1,214 files (853 MB's worth) mostly pics but lots of videos as well. June alone has seen 327 new files, that's over 10 new uploads a day.

Some statistics:

Jan to March 2002 (100 days)
Hits: 290,308
Total Data Transferred: 70.44 GB (70,000 MB)

April to May 2002 (60 days)
Hits: 260,711
Total Data Transferred: 28.57 GB

July 1 to July 18 2002 (18 days)
Hits: 51321
Total Data Transferred: 7.37 GB

What's my involvement in all this? Keeping it running and backing it up every day! Uptime statistics since this year:

Since 1/1/2002: (Last 198 Days)

System Availability: 99.9146%
Total Uptime: 198d 5h:32m:31s
Total Downtime: 0d 4h:3m:54s
Total Reboots: 22
Mean Time Between Reboots: 9.02 days
Total Bluescreens: 0

All those reboots are due to applying security patches (unbelievable how often Microsoft patches things ... sad really). The largest part of that 4-hours of downtime is one of my coworkers accidentally unplugging the power cable and not noticing. Still, three nine's ain't bad! Your pics are available 24/7/365!

So what's the catch? Why am I telling you all this? My domain renewal fees just cost me $35 US ($50 CDN). I spend at least several every week keeping the server running and backing stuff up, answering emails and renaming/deleting files for people who messed up, giving out advice and help to those who don't know how to upload, you name it.

I really hope I'm not being an ass for doing this, but here's what I'm asking: If any of you find this useful and are happy to have a fast, easy place to store and host your Xterra pics and videos, why not donate a buck or two or more? No bad karma if you don't, I'm just accepting donated help from anybody in the form of greenbacks instead of sweat.

If you have a spare buck you can PayPal me at superjens@hotmail.com

Snail mail would be great too, shoot me an email and I'll give you my address.

Cheers eveybody

superjens

jens check your mail.

Knowing you, and the amount of time you work on that server, I'll give you a couple of bucks for hosting and perhaps some Marcipan.

Thank for all your work so far!

With the new "donations requested" policy, have the user/password permissions changed so that only those who have donated know how to log in?

The original user/password do not work anymore.

At first, no. But after a few days only 3 people responded (TK1, fastdrmr, and SalsaX ... it's a given for Xlax and other close friends). I figured since nobody made a peep that nobody cared, so I killed the account.

Those guys bought me a beer (so to speak) and convinced me to give them their own accounts.

I converted from communism to capitalism!

I like capitalism!

I think that people missed the post.
I just saw it today by chance.
It is way at the bottom.

shoot.......i just saw this post. I would be more than happy to send a few bucks (US$) your way. I figure its the least I can do.

Are you still accepting it, or did you kill it? Please let us know.

Even if you decided to kill it, It was really cool of you to offer it in the 1st place. You didn't have to and you did it as a "public service" to the XOC community. For that you got "5-xterra's" from me.

Thanks

Thanks KJ, and yes the offer is still valid.

Superjens what you are doing is fantastic for the XOC community. I use fototime.com for my groups pics and stuff. We haven't got into video's yet. I will be sending you a couple of bucks just because I like what you are doing.

Edited to add: I just sent you the money. Hope it helps the cause.

DefibVT

All done, sent my contribution...

Superjens,
A little help is on its way.

You guys rock, thanks a million. Upload 'till your modem dies, link away to your heart's content.

So I assume I should take down the information in the Pictures forum, since this is no longer a free service ?

Do as you wish. It's still free, just open to people who subscribe to the "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" philosophy. You know, do unto others, that kind of thing. I help friends move for free, but I expect them to buy me lunch and supply the beers. Same principle.

Hey I sent you a few bucks. When do I get my password?

Thanks, you'll get it ASAP. I'm having a little network problem with it here right now, something physical in one of the cables going between it, the switch, the router, the outside line ... sigh. And of course I'm up to my armpits in real work aside from this. Fun!

TEST

Just a test from my new host....Thankx

Looks like they don't allow outside links. You can see it because you're logged in, the rest of us can't.

That's odd, works just fine on my server

ahaha, my sever is giving me the finger too.
Wish we were all as lucky as Super Jens

Mine works.

Mine works too now.....

I only see a box with a red X, your link doesn't seem to work.
Hey, so how is the weather up there in CyberSpace? :rolleyes: