My post titles usually are not weird. This one is an exception. Although it isn’t really weird. And you’ll be agreeing with me once you’ve finished reading this post.

I figured I got bored of writing ‘Updates’ and/or ‘More updates’, so I’d go with a more interesting title. One that did not make sense initially would obviously grab your attention and get you to read the post to make sense of the title. After all, a blog post on here has to make sense, does it not?

So, let’s begin!

Hello to Insolsence

Insolsence (that’s his nickname. His name is Ishbir.) is a well known programmer on a certain community that I won’t mention here. Well at least, that’s how people would put it. I’ll say, he’s a genius 14 year old kid who also happens to be a genius programmer. It’s been a week since Ishbir joined our team. And he’s now taken over code maintenance.

That brings our count to 3 members. Me, Dman, and Ishbir.

With Ishbir on the team, you can expect to have resolutions to technical issues a lot more faster. And of course, new developments will also be pushed out faster now. Ishbir has enough time on his hands these days and his initial work on the code has been nothing short of amazing. So I’d say my decision to take him in was a wise one. And one that I cannot possibly regret.

I’ll be creating an account for Ishbir on this blog, so if you’d like to see something from him, wait for it

Welcome back to all

Now that sounds like a dramatic part in the title. You could say that, partially. It’s not like we were gone anywhere, but that’s how it did seem to appear for the time period that Paypal payments were disabled. With the new payment system, everything seems to be running smooth.

There’s two reasons to why this announcement is important. One of them is the special promo coupon code. The other, is the upcoming affiliate system.

The promo code can be used for the 1 month renewal. It brings down the price from $7.95 to $4.95. Knocking off $3 may not really seem like a lot, but when you think about the original price and the discounted price and the level of service you’re getting, $4.95 is REALLY cheap. The catch in this is quite simple. This coupon can only be used 30 times. Meaning 30 lucky members will be able to grab this special offer. It won’t go out in an email newsletter. No. It’ll be put up at the end of this blog post! But don’t scroll towards the end right now! Oh well, fine, go ahead. It’s all about luck. If you spot it before it has run out, consider yourself one of the lucky 30!

The upcoming affiliate system, on the other hand, is more of a pre-announcement. I have’t even gotten round to test driving the affiliate system yet. So I’d say it’ll be about a week or two before the affiliate system is released. We’ll decide on a % payout and such. We’ll also occasionally hand over coupon codes to our affiliates exclusively which should help you with better conversions

That’s all there is to it at the moment. Really. I’ll be having another round of update(s) in a few days so keep checking back for those

Oh and the coupon code, of course. It’s WELCOMEBACK.

Cheers,
Hamza Y

I’m not sure if this blog post will end up being lengthy or short. But, let’s see how it goes.

So our PayPal account access has just been restored. It’s been 2 hours or so, and we’ve been rushing back and forth getting a lot of things sorted out in general with RPNet.

The entire issue was failure to verify Dman’s date of birth. And we had to call them over and over just to eventually find that out. Once we were told that was the issue, it was a simple case of scanning 2 extra documents (both had his date of birth) and sending it to them and they restored access.

So, at the end of the day, PayPal delayed us for days – for a birth date verification! I can’t really rant a lot right now, because we’ve got a lot of work to finish.

But, now that we have our account access restored, we’re back in business. We’re accepting payments again. AND, we’ve also got plans this time round. If PayPal decides to limit our account again, we won’t be hit this hard, ever again.

That brings me to our current plans. Over the course of the next couple days, we’re going to do the following:

- Get another server, on another network. This will be done to improve redundancy and overall geo location based speeds. So if a user experiences slowdowns on one server, we can move him to another that’s on a different network (and most probably) one that has better routing to his connection. Both networks we’ll be putting our servers on, are one of the best in the industry. We don’t ever compromise on quality. Our servers are generally under utilized with LOTS of spare capacity to account for usage peaks.

- Put everything in order. We’ve lost a lot of sales/business because of the Paypal mess up. And we’re going to be updating all the places/forums we post to, that we’ve resumed accepting payments.

- We also have a modification in development. Let’s just call it the HDD addon. The HDD addon will allow the end user to choose whether to stream the file directly to his desktop, or to have it saved on our server’s HDD first (thus the name, HDD addon) and then download using a direct link that does not expire. Both have their advantages, of course. But, for a few problematic filehosts, the HDD addon could be a real blessing. More updates on this as we get it done

- The long delayed poll for new filehost additions. I’ll put that poll up tonight, for sure. And a mass email will be sent out so you guys can vote and decide on the new hosts that we should add.

I guess that’s about it for now If there’s anything else, I’ll put up a blog post. If you guys think I’ve missed something out, please let me know in the comments and I’ll cover it!

~Hamza