Article: Services Used

What makes it possible to share Metal XOR Studio content with the rest of the world? What services are used to turn the blog from an idea into reality? Let us take a look at the services used.

Blogger
This is the website you are on now. It allows a user to create a blog, post new entries, archive old posts, etc. There are many blog sites available. The reason Blogger was chosen was because it is owned by Google and the Studio already had a Google account using various other services.

Verizon Online
Verizon is the Internet provider the Studio uses , so through them there was already web space available for a Metal XOR website. The Metal XOR Studio Information Source was created to be a place for the Musik Catalog, songs to listen to, documents to read, etc. Since the blog site offers no storage for files, the content needed to be stored somewhere else. So the Information Source site seemed to be the appropriate place.

Mediamax
The storage at the Metal XOR website was very small. In fact, last night the Studio hit 87% of its storage capacity. And there aren't that many songs and publications posted yet. There is a LOT more content planned to become available. So this morning an account was created with Mediamax to store all the music and publication files the Studio wants to provide to the public. The Information Source will still be the website the public will use to access the files, but the files themselves will now be stored away from Verizon.


And those are the three sites used in this blog. Plans for upcoming downloadable content include electronic versions of all Metal XOR Studio books and booklets that have been published, new e-books, entire album downloads, video, and more.

So keep checking this site for announcements regarding new available content.

Update: Since this article was written there are two other services used by this blog.

Scribd
Scribd is a site that hosts documents. So all of the interviews and lyric booklets are now stored there. They offer an option to embed documents on your website, so that's what the blog uses to allow the reader to view the documents in a small reader within the post.

Flickr
This is a site that hosts pictures. The Studio has two accounts. The first is for the album covers, and that is linked to the album cover slide show in the sidebar on the right of the blog. The second account is for the rest of the miscellaneous pictures that have been shown on the site. There are over a hundred pictures now on the site and that number increases every week.