The Ampli5 Blog

You can now check your in-game counterstrike stats. Make sure to register and claim your username (so that it will be highlighted in the stats and make it easier to view). You can upload a user icon so that identifying your player name is easier. We’re using PsychoStats so there are player awards, weapon awards and weapon class awards. Scores decay daily unless the player joins a game for a sufficient amount of time, so no ‘camping’ at a high rank after a good match.

To join read Marc’s How To. If you’re behind a router, read the instructions for port-forwarding on routers.

Good luck, enjoy yourselves!

When we started Ampli5.org, the home page was a simple static page with text describing what to do and a list of members. We soon grew tired of the bland page and decided on a colourful welcome page. However we realised that a WordPress blog on the main page would be a much better platform for publishing news and getting member reactions that any static page. And thus was born The Ampli5 Blog.

We are always interested in adding useful services to Ampli5.org and we welcome suggestions regarding the same.

One of the first services we installed was the net2ftp script at http://ampli5.org/ftp. This script is an online FTP client which is very useful to transfer and manage files in your blog directory without having to download and install a separate FTP client on your operating system. The client makes editing theme files very easy and also simplifies the process of compressing and extracting archives.

In the early days of the Internet, most of us were on blogging platforms like Blogspot since it was free and easy to use. However there were only limited customization options and your blog ended up looking like most other blogs.

WordPress changed all that and offered complete customizability. You could set it up on your own server and domain and change anything and everything you wanted. The possibilities were endless… Most of us who weren’t afraid of mucking about with code and hosting control panels moved to WordPress. The rest remained on Blogspot simply because it cost money to buy a domain and hosting. (You had free hosting of course but it wasn’t always reliable.) And the restrictions on WordPress.com did not make the switch worth it.

Ampli5.org was created to give friends pre-installed WordPress blogs without any of the WordPress.com restrictions. The blogs are installed on subdomains of Ampli5.org (example: http://adithya.ampli5.org) and members get full unlimited FTP access to their blog directories to do whatever they please.

Ampli5.org uses the excess capacity of our hosting company, Ampli5 Hosting (part of Ampli5 Technology Solutions) so bandwidth and space is not a problem.