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PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:06 pm    Post subject: IGN Decides To "discontinue Free Hosting Services" Reply with quote

http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=60337

Sad

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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PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 Sad Not to mention the huge amount of stuff I've surrupticously hosted on their bandwidth over the years.
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PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2009 2:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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... Razz
Jeez, this is a little insane...
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PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2009 2:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote


"looks like you're up shit creek"
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PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2009 8:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2009 9:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2009 10:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

15-20 dollars a month is 15-20 dollars more than I'm spending now.
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PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2009 10:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 Smile ).

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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PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2009 12:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2009 1:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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. Smile
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PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2009 1:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2009 3:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2009 5:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Could always move to Geocities. Oh wait, nm.
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PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2009 8:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2009 7:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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