10 Years

gellenburg · Forum Newbie Joined: Dec 19, 2004 Posts: 3

(Some of you may have already seen this. If this is the case, my apologies!)

Dear Poser Community,

Aside from a short break from 1998-1999, I have been using Poser continuously since 1996. Over the years, the artistic talents and creative works of the collective Poser Community have provided me countless hours (and at this stage probably countless months!) of inspiration, enjoyment, assistance, and fun.

It's been almost ten years to the day since I started working with Poser, and while commuting into work a few weeks ago, I came up with the idea of providing something *back* to the Community.

How could I repay those who either directly, or indirectly, helped me out so much?

Then it hit me.

Through careful planning, resources, and opportunities, I am blessed both with the means and capabilities of offering free bandwidth and disk space to the Poser Community.

I've got dedicated servers that I run, sitting on the Internet, on unmetered 10Mbit connections to the Internet. It's not at my home, but sits in a data center located in Virginia.

I've been running these servers since 2001.

Anyone who has ever run a commercial website knows that disk space is cheap, and bandwidth is even cheaper.

So, I've got several servers, that aren't really being utilized right now, and aren't planned for being used much more in the future. They exist for backup and redundancy purposes.

Then PoserHome.com was born.

A Joomla powered website, I created the site to specifically give something back to the Community, and provide a way for free content providers, and artists, to have a way to host and share their work.

No more "Bandwidth Allotment Exceeded" messages after the 15th of each month because free hosting providers such as Geocities and Angelfire only offer ridiculously small amounts of bandwidth for their members.

It's got a file repository, image galleries, forums, and more.

And I offer it to you.

The Community.

To use it as you wish.

To either host your free products, to share your artwork, for anything.

I don't see this as competition. In fact, on the contrary! Since I freely offer this to you, I emphatically don't want it to be used by anyone to sell commercial goods! (No sense in you making money when I'm not making any money.)

So, check it out if you want: www.PoserHome.com. If you have any questions, feel free to reply to this message, or contact me through the site.

I welcome your feedback and suggestions.

Oh, and by the way, thanks for a wonderful 10 years!

Sincerely,

gellenburg

Aremis · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:08 am Post subject:

Great job! Nice to see someone offering something back in a big way to the community that he supports.
Kudos!
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3Dhunter · Forum Member Joined: Oct 15, 2005 Posts: 48

Sounds marvellous, once my com!p is back from the shop, i'll put together some texture packages and click that link above to host them.