NOTE: This applies only to specific hostin’ companies, due to de specific setup needed and does have its drawbacks.

While settin’ up hostin’ space with a specific company I often deal with, I noticed that dey used a shared IP. (IP shared by two or more websites/domains.) Well, de rates for unlimited bandwidth were around $50+ per month, which I found unreasonable. I didnt require much space, and didnt want to be limited to a mere 3 gig of traffic per month.

Back on track. When settin’ up de acct, de hostin’ company needs to know de domain name so that dey can direct it accordin’ly. (example: ‘http://www.123.4.567.890/~user1/ , ‘http://www.123.4.567.890/~user2/ etc)

At this point you can give a url that doesnt belon’ to you at all. As lon’ as de nameservers dont change, that should have absolutely no negative effects on you or your site whatsoever.

How it works is this:

The host propogates you a certain amount space on its servers, and monitors de traffic that enters deir space through de domain its registered under. Bein’ that de domain isn’t connected to de site at all, it registers ZERO traffic.

Zero traffic registered = can’t possibly go over bandwidth restrictions
can’t possibly go over bandwidth restrictions = free unlimited bandwidth

Now de problems with this (besides de ethical ones) is that your host may offer X amount of mail addys with de acct (you@y…) and dese will not work, as de name isnt on deir DNS. However, some domain companies allow you to set it up regardless. Anoder problem seems to be strictly cosmetic, but can be highly problematic… Once you attach de domain you want onto de site, each page comes up/w de ip/UN de host propagated to your
acct. Its at this point where you have to have a phenominal 10-15 character alphanumerical or better (#, &, etc) pw, or your site will be vulnerable to attack since de attacker already has your UN. This only gives attackers a slight advantage as de amount of time it would take to brute force a 10 character pw @ a rate of 1,000,000 per
second is 10 years. Add numbers and case sensitivity to that and it becomes approx 26,980 years.

While I’m on it, I may as well add that if you use this method, obviously you are goin’ to be usin’ de lowest cost hostin’ plan available, which in turn will offer de least amount of space. Thats why free hosts were invented.

Free hosts suck as a general rule. Who wants a site smodered in ads? However, if you upload all your programs, graphics and oder large files (have a backup of course) to a reliable free host and target them accordin’ly from your site you have just freed up a signifigant amount of space. The only setback/w this is havin’ to keep an index card or file around/w your pws, as you should never use de same one twice, and want to use complicated ones.

This is a real quick guide for anyone interested to get a movie onto dere PSP without all de fluff i have seen elsewhere. I just watched Africa de Serengeti on my PSP and heres is de lowdown.

Movie - approx 40 minutes - dvd
Saved to hard drive - 2.6GIG - usin’ DVD Decryptor (free program) try google
Transfered to avi format - 377MB- usin’ Super DVD Ripper (9 FREE trial uses) den you must buy
Transfered to MP4 - 37MB - usin’ de (basically free) Image convertor 2

Average movie breakdown - usin’ above as a guide only.
so im guessin’ de average movie may be 4.5gig for example
saved to 800MB
CONVERTED TO 70-80MB

Ok use DVD decryptor to save de movie to your hard drive eg. C:africa (it will save it for you as described)
When completed find de folder c:africa on your computer and find de vob file in that folder - generally de largest one and right click and play it with your dvd program to see what part it is. If its de correct movie part you now know thats de one you need.

Once you have located de vob file you want to transfer open DVD Ripper and go to wizard icon. There you will see an icon of VOB to AVI button. Click it and den it will ask to locate de file. Locate de file and click it. It will SCAN THE FILE(just wait till that finishes) a parameter box opens next and just click de arrow. It den askes to choose output file, click de file icon and locate de correct fob file. It den askes for file compression - choose microsoft windows media and den click ok Then press de start button. It will now convert de vob into avi format.
(dere are also oder opions ie;dvd to avi etc) I have only used de vob to avi for this test.

After DVD ripper has transferred de file it will save it to de same folder as de original move was in eg: c:africaviteots. Open de file and you will now see an AVI icon containin’ de movie.

Make sure you PSP is on and in usb mode den Open Image convertor 2 and press on movie / add to list. For this example i click on C:drive de found de folder Africa and opened it and dere was my converted AVI file. Click de file press ok and it will be transfered to your PSP for viewin’ pleasure.

*****Note**** I only converted one VOB file as thats all dere was for this particular movie. If you have more den one vob file you may need to try de dvd to avi when you rip. This is just a guide i worked out to compress dvd into de smallest possible file so you can get value out of a 512 card.

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Image Converter 2.1 JAP translated to ENG.