Archmaille

You guys know that with my now 22 sites that I run (and growing at least on a monthly basis if not daily) it’s important that I have Гјber reliable service when it comes to web hosting! Especially with recently moving to a new dual core 2.2ghz, 2 gigs RAM, 250GB raid 1 hdd I’ve spent a LOT and I mean a lot of time on web hosting review sites, and on hosting forums. Yeah, it’s important to get a good price, but that’s the least of my concerns if I can’t get reliable service, well reliable and powerful service. This silly blog gets nearly 600 people a day to it so it’s necessary that I get as much bandwidth as possible, since this site is just a personal blog, and my other sites have a much higher audience as they’re my money making sites!

Make sure that when you’re looking for a new hosting plan you do your homework and look at several web hosting rating sites. I’ve looked over webhostinggeeks.com and like the format a lot, it’s nice to hear back from other customers on issues. I was on the Yahoo Review page, and noticed that many other customers have had a very similar experience to what I had… which is good because since Yahoo! switched to an unlimited plan I almost considered using them again like I had 6 years ago… I can honestly say I’m pretty glad I hadn’t… wouldn’t of known though without sites like webhostinggeeks.com

Even if you don’t need a website you still need webhosting if you plan on running a server be it Counter-Strike or Call of Duty. Make sure you know everything possible about your web host before you purchase your plan. Especially in today’s economy, you don’t want to waste money on something that isn’t valuable to you!

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I have seen so many ads lately for this new “Combat Arms” online that I just had to try it. Since it’s free I mean why not? I especially have seen a lot since I’ve been doing the flash games project for MTV it’s just strewn all over the internet when you’re on free online game sites. I was slightly confused at first what Combat Arms was since it said it was an MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) but the clips all looked like a FPS (First Person Shooter) game. This combination only added to my curiosity, another reason for downloading the game. I figured that the “free” was a trial basis and after a certain period of time you’d be paying for your game play… which was fine by me, if it was good I’d end up buying it, if it was only moderately fun at the end of the trial I’d have had fun but not need to buy it, and if it really sucked I could just uninstall it. None of these options are necessary since Nexon the company that made and supports Combat Arms doesn’t charge anything for any of their games… ever.

I’ve gotten pretty addicted to the game as the MMO part comes in more of a career than anything. With every match you earn experience, and money. The more experience you have the better weapons you can buy (though most are available to you from the start a few are restricted). And of course the more money you have the better weapons you can get your hands on. You buy weapons armor, and other combat gear in number of days, unlike with Counter-Strike: Source where you buy equipment each round.

There is one thing that I do have a huge complaint about in Combat Arms.В  And that is the hackers.В  Yes every game has it’s exploiters, cheaters, and hackers.В  Most of the time though it is bearable.В  You either have games like America’s Army where there is an UBER strict anti-cheat program protecting it (I’ve even been accused of cheating and I suck compared to most people).В  Or you have games where you can find good servers such as CS:S where I only really play on two or three different servers that have very loyal groups of people on them and will kick cheaters at the first sign of hacks.В  With Combat Arms there is no VoteKick or VoteBan option… so cheaters have free reign.В  The only way to report them is on their forums, and from what I’ve heard all they do is clear you stats, wipe you money and kills… so there really is no incentive for people to not cheat.

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It seems like not yesterday the number one game on both Credal and I’s Xfire profiles was Stronghold 2.В  Now with only 162 hours and in third place it seems like we didn’t play the game at all!В  Of course it kind of sucks that Xfire has some sort of glitch with Windows Vista and it shows me as ALWAYS in game for Company of Heroes.В  Once I get in the game until I restart the computer it shows me as in game!В  Which BTW I absolutely hate!В  It doesn’t show a true record of how long I’ve been in game… the past 3 weeks I’ve probably gained 100 hours in CoH alone simply because I can’t get “out of game” without restarting my computer!В  (I think it has to do with Vista’s caching system, since the game loads UBER faster if I’ve already had it up once… make use of that 4 gigs of RAM!)

Oh well, I still can’t deny the fact that I’ve got a good 600 or so hours in CoH, and at least 200 in Counter-Strike:Source.

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Wow, can we say love at first hear?В  I know, being tiny earbud style headphones the Klipsch Custom-1 Headphones wouldn’t be most peoples choice for computer or gaming usage… I have to beg of those people to reconsider!

The Klipsch Custom-1’s have performed amazingly well for daily computer use and gaming.В  And by performance I don’t mean just sound, yes the sound is amazing!В  The comfort is just as amazing!В  Thanks to several ear gels to choose from you can get the perfect fit that doesn’t begin to hurt, or become an annoyance after hours of use.В  The eargels aren’t round either, since your ear canal is not round!В  What an amazing concept!!В  You mean a company actually made something that fits to our body rather thane expecting our body to become acustomed to it?!?!

I was glad that I started using the Klipsch Headphones on my computer at first since it has a tuner that I can change levels and adjust.В  The Klipsch Headphone line seems to be very picky to start things off and for the first couple hundred hours of use aren’t completely balanced.В  After that you can stop adjusting sound levels and just enjoy all the little details that you’ve been missing all along!

I used to have a pair of Turtle Beach 5.1 Surround Sound headphones, and wasn’t sure if I’d ever be able to get used to anything other than complete emulsion of sound… I have to say that I never was used to it wearing those.В  Yeah, the 5.1 was awesome, but the sound quality of these Klipsch Custom-1’s is MUCH higher.В  I can hear every tiny detail, and still able to tell when someone is sneaking up behind me in Counter-Strike:Source.В  I will mention that for computer use I had to buy a six foot extension for the 3.5mm jack as the Custom-1’s only have a cord long enough to reach your pocket because they’re really for Ipod’s and Zune’s.В  Maybe one day when I get a Zune I can use this for it… which was half of the appeal of getting these over a pair of Sennheiser’s, can’t say that I was dissapointed.

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