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Bill All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Jul 8 2001 : 2:17PM
The topic says it all. I have been trying to get to his site for two days now (using various ADT links and www.toychest.com) with no success (page currently unavailable).

Is the Toy Chest out of business or is their site just down (apparently with nobody checking it over the weekend)?

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Posted - Jul 8 2001 : 2:24PM
Hey Bill:

Sorry about that. Whoever was hosting their site went out of business without warning. Then we got an email to change all our links - I'm still working on that.

Here's the correct link

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Posted - Jul 8 2001 : 2:27PM
BTW - it isn't really a store called the toy chest. It is an affiliate store (I gave it that name) that happens to have an incredible selection. The prices are only low if the webmaster (ie me) chooses the lower priced, lower commission store. So be careful if you see the same store at a different site (that webmaster may have chosen the higher prices, higher commission option.)

I believe the people who run it are a toy distributor who also has a brick-n-mortar store. They came recommended by a Talker.

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Posted - Jul 8 2001 : 3:37PM
Thanks Steph.

As far as re-doing the links. I don't know if this is something that you are able to do, but it is something that has made our life much easier doing mainframe FTP's.

Instead of coding the IP address from every place that we do an FTP, we put the IP address in a centralized location, and then point to that location when doing the FTP. This way if an IP address changes, we only need to make the modification in that central location rather than having to change everything.

These IP addresses can be pulled in and concatenated with directories and file names (which we DO code in each location since they are unique).

I have to believe that this capablility is not unique to a mainframe. Considering all the links that you have, if you have the capability of doing this, it might not be a bad idea to look into. It takes more work to set up, but once it is completed, it is much easier to manage changes.

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Posted - Jul 8 2001 : 4:06PM
can't say i know exactly what you're talking about (that's why i have drew :) but in the email from the people who run the store they said they're going to switch from an ip address to a domain name, so we won't have to deal with that again. i changed all the static links on our site (i think.) drew just needs to do a quick edit and replace for the database ones (the go shopping link on the sex toy reviews.)
 
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Posted - Jul 8 2001 : 5:28PM
By switching to a domain name, they are essentially doing what I was suggesting. A domain name is basically an alias for an IP address. In lieu of them creating the domain name, I was suggesting that you create an internal alias.



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