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Introduction
So. You want to know how this site works, do you? Well, you’ve come to the right page.
Table of Contents
siygess.telergy.com (2003-05)m0rd3n.cloud.prohosting.com (2008)m0rd3n.me.uk (2008-10)1.0: Mechanics [top]
This section provides some information about the back-end of m0rd3n.me.uk.
1.1: How this Site Works [top]
Gremlins are how this site works. Hundreds of thousands of the little critters are running around inside a little aluminum box which is located just south of Fucking Nowhere. Their job is to collect together the myriad pieces of information required to display a page from this site whenever someone requests to view one. They might smell funny and complain a lot, but those Gremlins sure get the job done.
And, if you believe that, I’ve a very nice bridge to sell you.
1.2: How this Site Really Works [top]
Every page of this site is dynamically generated by an old, creaky Website
back-end. Late in 2009, this creaky piece of software was rewritten from the
ground up and given the name TurkeyPuncher/1.2. Thanks to this little piece of software,
I don’t need to type out lengthy HTML files — all I have to do is type out a
brief page in TurkeyCode, and TurkeyPuncher/1.2 will regenerate and regurgitate that
into HTML whenever it is required.
Rewritten though it may have been, this site’s back-end is still creaky.
1.3: The Test Pages [top]
As is almost always the case with my software, TurkeyPuncher/1.2 has a test page, which is basically just a ‘hey, this shit works!’ kinda thing. It was originally just something I could use to test out my rebuilt site framework but, as with most things I create, it mutated into something else after a while.
There’s also a page knocking about somewhere that effectively acts as a
TurkeyCode parser test page (more so than all the others). It has at least
one of just about every supported TurkeyTag somewhere on it. The page in
question started out as just another test page, but now it’s a TurkeyCode Reference.
2.0: History [top]
This section provides some information about the history of m0rd3n.me.uk in all of its iterations.
2.1: siygess.telergy.com (2003-05) [top]
The original domain name this site appeared under was siygess.telergy.com∗, way back in 2003. The earliest known record of the old site, as reported by The Wayback Machine, is April 25th, 2005∗.
Back in those days this site served as a staging area and download center for my (sucky and now defunct) Micro Chat server and client combination. It had few pages, and a lot of links to a couple of forums which were supposed to deal with Micro Chat but ended up doing nothing.
The Micro Chat project died thanks to a number of factors, one of which was the loss of both the original source code and my development computer during a move in early 2005. According to Wayback, the site remained online until a little after the 25th April 2005, at which point it vanished under mysterious circumstances (said circumstances being some idiot shutting off my domain name).
And this, kids, is why you should never entrust your site to a mere layperson.
A complete list of The Wayback Machine's cache of siygess.telergy.com∗ may be found here∗.
2.2: m0rd3n.cloud.prohosting.com (2008) [top]
Luckily for me, it turned out that the source code for this site was still on my (in those days highly expensive) 256 MB USB key. At least something managed to not get lost.
The next time this site appeared on the ‘Net was November 30th , 2008, which is the date you can see on the hit counters in the sidebar. Prior to this I had redesigned the site and obtained some free web space (which sucked) at m0rd3n.cloud.prohosting.com∗ (see news #1).
It’s true that you only receive what you pay for — the Web space was provided by free.prohosting.com∗, which really says it all. To dispel any lingering doubt, though, I’ll expound on the subject. Since this site has always been small, the ridiculously small space provision of 100 MB wasn’t a problem. What was a problem, was the meagre 1.00 GB of monthly bandwidth, plus the complete and utter lack of any scripting facilities. Plus the ads kept breaking my meticulously-crafted page layout.
To their credit, free.prohosting.com∗ are a bit saner with regard to injecting ads into users' pages nowadays but, being free, they still suck by definition as a Web space provider.
2.3: m0rd3n.me.uk (2008-10) [top]
After I came to my senses and decided to do good by this site, I purchased the domain name m0rd3n.me.uk∗ and 20 GB of Web space to go with it, then proceeded to rebuild everything properly. This momentous event occured on December 3rd, 2008 (see news #4), and was accompanied by much drinking. For a mere £5 or so per month, the guys at WebFusion∗ were prepared to furnish me with reasonable facilities (i.e. better than those I had at siygess.telergy.com∗) — having 20 GB of monthly bandwidth thrown in merely sweetened what turned out to be an entirely acceptable deal.
Since the move, this site has changed a massive amount. It has two news feeds, over 30 pages — a colossal improvement over its original 5 or so pages — and is regularly being noticed and indexed by Google.