Fed Up with Guildportal


Aggelakis

 

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I'm guessing I'm not the only one mildly annoyed that Guildportal has been down for over 12 hours at this point. Seems like they're down all the time lately.

On top of that, my SG has been having issues with email delivery within the site, amd I'm tired of fighting with the bugs in the site builder and the not quite occasional glitch with posting on the SG forums.

Then there's just the fact that Guildportal has very little to specifically support City of Heroes or Villains. No game specific site banners or themes, etc... It SEEMS like they even did away with the option to display server status on your site. Maybe that's because the VG is a free site.

ANYWAY... I'm getting tired of fighting with the blasted site. Anybody know a quality site for guild hosting? Right now I need free hosting, but I'd like something that has a forums option like GP does. Email and relatively good, easy site building tools too.


 

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wuts guildportal?


 

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One thing about server status - shouldn't be that hard to pull in the feed they have for that. It's on the main site's server status page.


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I appreciate the effort aggelakis, but I am capable of running a google search, lol.

There are a good number of sites comparable on the surface to Guildportal. I was more hoping somebody here had actual insight/experience with one of them. Enough so that they'd deem it worthy of recommendation.


 

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Originally Posted by Stardrive View Post
I was more hoping somebody here had actual insight/experience with one of them. Enough so that they'd deem it worthy of recommendation.
I've been spoiled by actual sites rather than dime-a-dozen "sign up now and get your own website+forum!" shlock. I've been a long-time member for both types. Hell, I've been a long-time administrator for both types, and even webmaster for the former.

I don't recommend any service similar to GuildPortal any more. While I understand free hosting and domains are attractive, I honestly think it's worth the expense. The hard part after that is being able to actually design a site.


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Guildlaunch.com has been working quite good for me


 

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Originally Posted by Stardrive View Post
I'm guessing I'm not the only one mildly annoyed that Guildportal has been down for over 12 hours at this point. Seems like they're down all the time lately.

On top of that, my SG has been having issues with email delivery within the site, amd I'm tired of fighting with the bugs in the site builder and the not quite occasional glitch with posting on the SG forums.

Then there's just the fact that Guildportal has very little to specifically support City of Heroes or Villains. No game specific site banners or themes, etc... It SEEMS like they even did away with the option to display server status on your site. Maybe that's because the VG is a free site.

ANYWAY... I'm getting tired of fighting with the blasted site. Anybody know a quality site for guild hosting? Right now I need free hosting, but I'd like something that has a forums option like GP does. Email and relatively good, easy site building tools too.
For the most part Guildportal has been fine for our SG website, it has only been recently when they've been doing some rediculously long maintenance on them.


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