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CocoT Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 599 Location: Belly-Gum |

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:06 pm Post subject: IGN Decides To "discontinue Free Hosting Services" |

http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=60337 Do you think it might be a good idea to start listing sites and make sure we don't "lose" anything? I'm worried about older sites (those like AI Cafe) whose owners have disappeared or simply have stopped checking the email account under which they registered their site...
This might be pretty catastrophic, if only because such a large quantities of links will then lead to dead ends...
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MauveBib Joined: 04 Nov 2004 Posts: 602 |

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:27 pm Post subject: |

Yeah, I got this email myself today, it's a hassle. My site's been on planetquake since 2000 and now I'll have to find a new home Not to mention the huge amount of stuff I've surrupticously hosted on their bandwidth over the years. _________________
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CocoT Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 599 Location: Belly-Gum |

Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 2:00 am Post subject: |

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Not to mention the huge amount of stuff I've surrupticously hosted on their bandwidth over the years

True... I hadn't even thought about that aspect yet...
Jeez, this is a little insane...
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MeTcHsteekle Joined: 15 May 2008 Posts: 397 Location: its a secret |

Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 2:22 am Post subject: |

"looks like you're up shit creek" _________________ bah

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leileilol Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 1321 |

Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 8:47 am Post subject: |

IGN's closing Modcenter too, which is also another free hosting service for mods. AI Cafe must be saved at all costs. _________________

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Willem Joined: 23 Jan 2008 Posts: 73 |

Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 9:26 am Post subject: |

You guys should look into getting a Dreamhost account. I have all of my sites hosted there (including shub-hub and Quaketastic) and I have tons of storage and tons of bandwidth and I'm paying $15-$20 a month for it. They are incredibly great.
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MauveBib Joined: 04 Nov 2004 Posts: 602 |

Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 10:38 am Post subject: |

15-20 dollars a month is 15-20 dollars more than I'm spending now. _________________ Apathy Now!

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Spirit Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 476 |

Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 10:39 am Post subject: |

Unless they stop being that. I strongly suggest not using Dreamhost... Downtimes, slowness, lying incompetent support were unacceptable for me. I think this is a better place for archive coordination than func (because leileilol is here ). http://www.quaddicted.com/stuff/hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com.html
This is a not fully but probably almost complete list of the sites at Planetquake. Simply wgetting does not work for many sites thanks to Gamespy's screwup. So I think it would be more wise to pick sites that absolutely must be saved and let the internet archive take care of the rest.
These are from the top of my head sites that are very valuable. The ones marked with a ! are ones I will mirror, fix and host.
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/cineplex/
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/fatty/ !
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/hotel/ !
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/minion/
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/prefab/ !
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/qca/
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/qe/
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/qer/
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/qpp/ !
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/qref/
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/quakelab/ !
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/ramshackle/ !
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/retroquake/ !
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/spq2/ !
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/teamshambler/ !
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/underworld/ !
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CocoT Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 599 Location: Belly-Gum |

Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 12:18 pm Post subject: |

From the FAQ: "Can I pay to keep my IGN hosting? Sorry, no hosting services, free or otherwise, will be offered." "free or otherwise"?? Does that mean that basically ALL contents from the Planet sites (and the planet sites themselves) are going down the drain, then? Or are they become mere news sites?
This is starting to sound like a bad dream... The email was somehow re-sent this morning, and it does come from the gamespy network. I'm also surprised none of the planet sites have been reflecting this in their news so far. Weird.
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Willem Joined: 23 Jan 2008 Posts: 73 |

Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 1:13 pm Post subject: |

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15-20 dollars a month is 15-20 dollars more than I'm spending now.

I understand that but I'm trying to present realistic options. Holding your breath and waiting for another free host isn't likely to be productive.
Besides, most of us piss away that much on stupid crap each WEEK. It's not a big deal to anyone with a job.
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Lardarse Joined: 05 Nov 2005 Posts: 243 Location: Bristol, UK |

Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 1:15 pm Post subject: |

leileilol wrote:
AI Cafe must be saved at all costs.

Yes, as long as we don't have to save the fact that it has a lot of broken links because of backshlashes in some link addresses. (I think this almost certainly means that a web spidering service would not be able to save it.
I'll save this one myself.

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scar3crow Inside3D Staff Joined: 18 Jan 2005 Posts: 837 Location: Las Vegas, NV

Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 3:22 pm Post subject: |

I believe FrikaC, Coffee and Kryten would be fine with storing AI Cafe here. I don't mind fixing broken backslashes and hard linking for such venerable sites as AI Cafe, the SPQ Level Heaven and similar. What all of the classic 96-97 comedy stuff is still on PQ? I'm thinking things like New Vore Times and Dank & Scud.
Agh, this gets to me in so many many ways. I'm more than a tad angry right now... ...and I'm not even hosted there.
Willem; I concur, not necessarily with the host (no opinion on them), but I know I spend a good $20 a week on snacks and random crap that I could go without... In the meantime though, I think its important to store as much locally as we can. Quake is too big to be directly harmed by a site hoarder like IGN.
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FrikaC Site Admin Joined: 08 Oct 2004 Posts: 947 |

Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject: |

Could always move to Geocities. Oh wait, nm.

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metlslime Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 177 |

Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 8:56 pm Post subject: |

spirit, seems like the latest Underworld site is here: http://underworld.planetquake.gamespy.com/index.html the link you have points to what seems like an older front page, with the latest news update from 2006.

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Spirit Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 476 |

Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 7:20 am Post subject: |

Oops, yes.

Pappy-R wrote:
for site links, a site that has the URL: http://hostedsitenamehere.planetquake.gamespy.com is a site that was moved into the new systems by the owners, and those ones most likely will get moved again by the owners, I hope! The sites with a URL like “http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/hostedsitenamehere are sites that have not been moved or touched by the owner since the network changed a couple years ago. These are the sites I am VERY worried about since the owners have not touched the sites in years.

So one should always check http://hostedsitenamehere.planetquake.gamespy.com and only if that does not work use http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/hostedsitenamehere
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