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Jamroom Hosting - looking for a few beta testers

Jamroom Hosting


Hi Strumelia,

Just so I know how much hurt to put on my server guy (smile), what are your speed tests showing?
System Core> Tools> Performance Test. If you space out several during the day, is it consistent?

Jamroom Hosting - looking for a few beta testers

Jamroom Hosting

I feel better already -

updated by @ken-rich: 02/10/15 12:33:03PM

Some Videos Playback in Playlists only 1 Minute?

Using Jamroom


I actually used that line in one of my promos - lol

That's myself on the left with Jacob Lawrence, the COO of Conquer Entertainment. We were putting together something called "The Love Offering Tour" to fund charities and I cartooned us for a promo poster...

I thought it was cute but the marketing experts shot it down...

updated by @ken-rich: 02/10/15 12:56:53PM

Jamroom Hosting - looking for a few beta testers

Jamroom Hosting

Hi Brian,

I'm seeing there is a bit of a leaning curve to this, but then one still ends up with a security blanket.

As long as your transfer process can become understandable to me, so it doesn't seem daunting or unworkable, I'll feel "safe" with it.

When you get a chance, could you put the required steps in the the documentation? Then the "technically challenged" (like me) will have a clearly defined exit strategy, which translates into "peace of mind".

Jamroom Hosting - looking for a few beta testers

Jamroom Hosting

Not a question Brian - just envisioning a scenario where someone might possibly want to leave Jamroom hosting (even if it's totally awesome).

The only part I'm not clear on now, is if a person did want to leave, how would the new site be able to accomplish the transfer? My current understanding is, a proper back-up is a .gz folder that contains everything, and that's what the new host needs.

In my current situation, I can make that type of back-up with 1 click, and upload to any host to be restored. It's simple, I understand it, it gives me a sense of security.

In the Jamroom hosting situation, what is the process for transferring out?

Is it - SFTP into your Jamroom Hosting VPS and download all your files + export your database, which gets you all your data. Then compress to a .tar and then a .gz to arrive at the same place as the c-panel 1 click back-up?

If that's the answer, it's a little "unsettling" to have a process so daunting and untried be the basis of my security. Do you get where I'm coming from? I need my security blanket like "Linus" - lol.

updated by @ken-rich: 02/10/15 10:35:52AM

Some Videos Playback in Playlists only 1 Minute?

Using Jamroom


Brian - that's awesome...

My feet still hurt from the last "Happy Dance" and you did it again - lol...

updated by @ken-rich: 02/10/15 10:10:11AM

Shrunken Videos Surrounded by Blackness

Using Jamroom

Dude - you did it. Not only that but my song pictures are showing now - bonus.

Time for my "happy dance" - lol.

updated by @ken-rich: 02/10/15 09:54:13AM

Jamroom Hosting - looking for a few beta testers

Jamroom Hosting



Hi Paul,

Ok - that does sound easy enough. I'm not scared off by that part of it anymore.

1) What about back-ups? I understand you have daily back-ups, but is that the built in Amazon S3 Redundant storage? Are we able to make .gz back-ups that we can download and take to any hosting provider and reconstitute (if we decide to go back to an external hosting situation at some point)?

2) I've already paid for my skins and modules, but now new ones and unlimited use of them is free in this set-up. So, if I decided to go back to regular c-panel hosting at some point, would I just be charged for any new modules I've added, and if I have more than two instances of purchased modules?

In other words, what is the exit strategy? What fees are imposed when transferring back out, what process is in place to accommodate those who wish to leave?

As a possible scenario, someone may build up enough external sites to justify the expense of their own server, but only if their Jamroom sites are moved out to it.
updated by @ken-rich: 02/10/15 09:11:43AM

Jamroom Hosting - looking for a few beta testers

Jamroom Hosting


Hi Paul,

1) OK - I'll look for your e-mail on the JR4 to JR5 thing.

2) I'm planning on turning my HTML sites into Jamroom sites anyway, as a means to making them responsive. I can leave them where they are for now - until I figure out how.

3) This is the one that concerns me - "SFTP" I don't know what this is, how it works, what type of control it provides.

Mind you, I can use Filezilla to access my c-panel, see my files, do bulk transfers, edit if I have to - though I prefer the c-panel File system editor for making changes at the file level. Is SFTP a similar type of access to what Filezilla provides in a c-panel setting?

Is there a test site where we can login and see what type of access the JR custom panel provides, and how the SFTP access works, before making a final commitment?

Jamroom Hosting - looking for a few beta testers

Jamroom Hosting

Count me in, my friend with the small server company let me down one too many times. I've got two problems though.

I still haven't migrated my JR4 to combine with my JR5. I paid to migrate it once, and we did, but we wiped it out because Paul wanted a fresh install when I became the first Ning migrant "guinea pig" - lol.

My size will go down when we do that. Probably from 70 GB to 50-60 GB.

Also, I'm used to c-panel access, and have a bunch of small HTML sites as add-ons and subdomains. How will that work? As I understand it, there will be no access.

Will I have to host them elsewhere and just move my Jamroom here. I'll end up with two bills.

For that matter, how will I access my Jamroom files at the server level if there is no c-panel?
updated by @ken-rich: 02/10/15 04:47:42AM