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Beyond the Shadows - Mods, Skins & Downloads

If you prowl the SH3 boards you may recognize this site & some of this post, some of you may have seen my staff members posting around these parts displaying their sigs, and fewer still are taking advantage of what we offer at www.bts-mods.com

We're a small and growing group of Silent Hunter lovers who have put in our own time to making mods, skins and other downloads for Silent Hunter 3 & 4. We believe we're developing a community to benefit all Silent Hunter players, add-on developers, and newcomers by designing and implementing a community where the majority of the mods for these games can be found with a few clicks of your mouse.
We offer a relatively hassle-free site to upload your Silent Hunter downloads in one location where everybody is able to find them. We don't put up advertisements, popups or inject malware into our site code, and your files are never removed for space-saving measures. All add-on developers who sign on to our site receive their own FTP log-in directly to one of our two servers with unlimited space to host their work.
bts-mods.com, on its own, has 1500 gigabytes of space available for our hosting needs. Transfer is never a problem with 1.5 Terabytes available each month. Our mirror hosting site offers the same specifications. Mod developers also have the option of requesting a free @bts-mods.com email account if they are interested.

Every designer is assigned their own folder within our Downloads folder. That folder belongs to them; only they and my staff members have access to its contents.
All designers need is a FTP program such as FileZilla, and once the request for hosting has been made and received, the details to their FTP access is emailed to them and they can begin uploading their files.

We do prefer that the designers upload their files themselves, but if they are limited for whatever reason then we have no problem stepping in for them. The main reason I ask not to always have to upload files, is that I would not like my staff over-burdened from what they already do.
At the present we are in the process of re-designing our content management system to make our site more user-friendly, that means for now the files can only be linked through our forums to registered users. I don't want to go into specifics because how our files will be displayed has yet to be determined. I don't know how long this will take, the coding is thorough - it has to be for what we're doing - and I want it to be right the first time so please bear with us until it comes online!

Registration is a requirement for this community, it's just like SubSim in those respects. We believe in the security of the files we host on our server, we don't like people stealing our bandwidth for their own purposes and we'll do everything we can to prevent that. Registration is another measure we take to narrow down our search should some sort of bandwidth theft occur.
With the topic of file hot-linking, this is only meant for game addons. I personally do not mind if you want to use our image gallery to host your pictures as a substitute to imageshack or whatever else is out there, as long as there is nothing of pornographic nature posted in them.

If there are any questions I, or even the staff members who frequent these boards, would be more than happy to answer them. If I missed anything I'll be sure to put it out there in an edit. :cool:

As mentioned before, I just overhauled bts-mods.com for hopefully the last time. I got sick of the "site-in-a-box" that we used previously. Not everything is in total working order; I still have tons of coding to do. If you see website errors you're more than welcome to blame me! :rock: Our forums and our image gallery are fully functional for your enjoyment and use :up:

I would like to thank Neal Stevens for giving me permission to post this and RDP for his support & advice. :|\\