CalienteOkami Studios used to be first hosted on Geocities. That was back in... early 2004/late 2003. It was a crude site; I didn't know html and I hadn't even heard of CSS at the time. My prior experience with webdesign was with an old copy of frontpage. And it wasn't much help.

Geocities had appealed to me because, of course, you could build a page exactly how you want it without knowing html. I didn't mind the popups and the sidebar; but eventually they started to get on my nerves. I used my laptop, and as of now, it's quite slow, so you can imagine how it was with 2-3 popups.
Anyways, the site was surprisingly sucessful; 5,000 hits and a steady supply of guestbook comments and stuff, I updated alot, and all was good. Until my bandwidth started to go. Every hour or so, my site would go down because of the 1GB bandwidth limit. Then, a few months later, I ran out of space. I was deleting old pictures in order to upload new ones. (That isn't good for an artist or art site. It's good to see the artist's progression.)

Finally, I had enough of geocities, and started searching for a better site. For a while I stuck only to my Deviantart account. I searched for months for adequate webspace: Enough bandwidth (obviously more than 1GB), more than 15MB space, with decent features. Slowly I was getting acquainted with the world of webdesign and webhosting. I then refined my search to "ad-less" or "banner advertisement", php support, good uptime, a lax hosting contract, and a few other criteria. And.... free.
As you can see, it was a hard search, but eventually I found 1webspace.biz, a german hosting company. (At least I believe it's german...) Lol, yeah, I had to look up a few words in the dictionary, but my site is always up. There has only been two major shutdowns in all the time I've been hosted. I consider almost a year good enough, since CO Studios is a small site.

CalienteOkami Studios has been on the web for approximately 2 years, and as you can see, it's gone through quite a lot of rough times, but is still standing...
Trivialities:

  • I still keep the email address I got from the geocities Caloka.
  • The first site was named CalienteOkami Studios in late 2005.
  • CalienteOkami (the old version of the site) is still up.
  • Xhire, the site mascot, was a rarely used quickly made RP character I used to use on Neopets.
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