http://www.cartographersguild.com/blog.php?u=567 A website and forum for enthusiasts of fantasy maps mapmaking and cartography of all types. We are a thriving community of fantasy map makers that provide tutorials, references, and resources for fellow mapmakers. en Mon, 20 May 2013 05:48:24 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.cartographersguild.com/images/cartographer/misc/rss.jpg http://www.cartographersguild.com/blog.php?u=567 http://www.cartographersguild.com/entry.php?b=83 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:22:37 GMT Well would ya look at that! The Cartographers' Guild is all grown up! Earlier this week, with the help of your generous donations, we made the switch to a dedicated server. That means we have an entire server all to ourselves with nothing on it but the Guild. Thsi means the skies the limit for us! In the next few months, we'll hopefully be doing a little bit of research into ways to improve things even more around here, now that we have the performance issue solved. I encourage all members to browse around, click on things, and let us know if anything is broken. Also if you have any suggestions for improvement or growth, please let us know! Thank you all so much for helping us to get where we are right now, and thank you all for stickign with us when we weren't so fast!

-Robbie ]]> Arcana http://www.cartographersguild.com/entry.php?b=83 http://www.cartographersguild.com/entry.php?b=62 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:19:43 GMT Well, I have some amazing news! I now have non-military internet access at work...Which means I can now access the guild AND related sites from an... Well, I have some amazing news! I now have non-military internet access at work...Which means I can now access the guild AND related sites from an administrative capacity, something that has crippled my participation here since I moved to Ohio. I end up having most of my computer time at work, but at the most basic I could browse the forums. Now I can access anything. Expect some further improvements and participation from me as things progress.

In other news, I've recently become addicted to reddit. My reddit account is Lehthanis, and I'm there quite a bit, though I don't participate very much. I've recently discovered that the /r/worldbuilding subreddit has linked to me quite often, and due to a timely post by me, the worldbuilding subreddit now links to the guild in their sidebar. This is great news for us, because it exposes us to more people. So hi reddit! Welcome!

My advertising campaign has pretty much halted due to my limited access to the site, and I believe I may have overpriced our ad impressions quite a bit. I'm going to be adjusting the prices and redoing the ad packet in the next week or so. Expect to want to advertise with us soon!

Anyways, thats my update. Looking forward to being able to actually do some stuff around here! ]]> Arcana http://www.cartographersguild.com/entry.php?b=62 http://www.cartographersguild.com/entry.php?b=60 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:30:17 GMT I moved into my new house this weekend. Been off the grid the whole time mostly, except for the ability to check a few things from my phone. I'm happy to see this place it at least still here! I know my CLs would have notified me if something bad happened.

Anyways, the move went off without a hitch. We had a truck on Friday and filled it with quite a bit of stuff, all the furniture, and a bunch of boxes. We had to leave behind some things, and we went back to get them on Saturday which proved to be a lot of work considering how wore out we were from the Friday move effort.

Then began the task of putting everything together and in its place. We have a few well water problems we're going to have to work out, but overall it's nice. I'll probably have to replace the hot water heater soon too. We got our bedroom arranged, bought some shelving for the closet, bought new locks, a new shower head, some fittings to connect the water supply to the fridge, and some general miscellaneous new house things.

While installing the fittings to get water to the fridge's ice maker, I managed to bust my head open on a key that was in the garage door right by the fridge. That put a damper on things for the rest of the evening, so after my wife cleaned up my wound we just sat on th ebed and chilled out til bedtime.

Waking up for the first work morning was pretty cool. Set the alarm for 5:30, got a shower, and when I was done the wife was ready with coffee. Had plenty of time to sit and relax and enjoy the coffee before attempting my first cross-Dayton-area drive to work in the morning. Made it to work at 7am almost on the dot before the gate traffic backed up too. I think this is going to work out great! Loving the new place!

We get our internet turned on tomorrow so I'll be able to spend more time here from home once that happens and I get my office set up, but overall I'm back from the long weekend and ready to see where this week takes me! ]]> Arcana http://www.cartographersguild.com/entry.php?b=60 http://www.cartographersguild.com/entry.php?b=57 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:37:09 GMT I may have mentioned that I'm buying a house. My wife and I have moved from Florida to Ohio and have been living in a small apartment with most of our home-making implements in storage (since we had a nice house in florida). This is all about to change because we're buying a nice smallish brick ranch house on 5 acres. I'm super excited about it because even though the living space is listed as only 1218 square feet, there's a full finished basement that is the same size as the house that's not considered "lliving space" because there's no egress. I'm ok with that.

So, next week we'll be closing on the house and beginning the move. This may make me a little scarce here for a few days, but ultimately I'll be around while I'm at my day job.

But I did mention moving EVERYTHING right?

Yes, that means the guild has to move too. I'm currently considering setting up a VPS account over at InMotion and moving us over to there until we get more ad/donation revenue. This will facilitate moving to a dedicated server and make it a little easier since we'll be in there system already. I've decided against DreamHost's dedicated server hosting because while they have great customer service and great business ethics, they've just had too much downtime lately and their datacenters have been plagued by DDOS attacks for some reason. I'm looking for a host that guarantees 99.9% uptime and I'd like a big beefy server to make this website scream!

So, if anyone has any suggestions for US based (or overseas with english speaking support) burstable vps servers with the ability to eventually upgrade to dedicated without having to go through a major move process linux based web hosting company that has good prices and 99.9% guaranteed uptime...please comment and I'll check them out. ]]> Arcana http://www.cartographersguild.com/entry.php?b=57 http://www.cartographersguild.com/entry.php?b=56 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:10:50 GMT So, I think I'm going to try and maintain a blog here as admin/owner of the site. If you decide to follow this blog, expect it to be mainly website oriented with the occasional work related post, and then the occasional graphics/art related post. I haven't done any mapping in a while, but I'm still the occasional artist for work, though that's been scarce as well since I'm mostly coding.

As for the guild, I've been working on beefing up the front page, the public relations, the advertising, and funding for the guild. We need to move hosts again, Dreamhost keeps having trouble, and I don't want to just arbitrarily change to another VPS provider. I want us to upgrade to dedicated hosting, and that's going to be expensive.

Anyways, keep an eye here if you want any insight into my head and stuff. I'll post more later. ]]> Arcana http://www.cartographersguild.com/entry.php?b=56