#1 2016-12-27 21:50:13

Spirit
Administrator

Fundraising for 2017

Hey you lovely people!

The server is a bit of a weirdo at the moment, it seems like one of the harddisks has trouble and I am trying to migrate the backups before fixing it. This takes a while as the bad harddisk only reads at <1MB/s at the moment, gah! If we have to move to a new server, I will pay the possible (low) fees myself, don't worry. Anyways, that's just why the server is on and off at the moment. Nothing to worry about I think. My local backups are older than they should though *whistle*...

In the meantime, if you want and feel like it and have the means to do so, you can chip in for the 2017 hosting fund as usual. The hosting costs are still ~36 Euro per month plus the domains so again we aim at 460 Euros. No fancy image on the frontpage this year, can't be arsed.

Same as last year:

As I said, Quaddicted is in no danger in any case. I totally use the server for private things and non-Quake stuff so I am happy to pay my share.

  • You can donate via Paypal to spirit|quaddicted|com (just click the link), I think there is a way to get around fees by saying it is for a friend?

  • You can mail me at spirit|quaddicted|com for bank transfer details (I am in Germany), I highly prefer this option if it gets us around fees.

No empty promises for next year. I did not care much about Quake this year, the backlog of things to-do and mails to reply is long and I don't see much happening in 2017. I do fancy using IPFS for distribute hosting, so if that tickles anyone's curiosity, let's collaborate! This could enable anyone to ensure that their favorite archives are held redundant and available.

All the best to you and enjoy the holidays, Spirit

PS: On the topic of cool technology like IPFS that I (want to) play with and maybe you want to too: Check out https://ipfs.io/, https://matrix.org/, https://sandstorm.io/, https://www.tagspaces.org/, http://projectblacklight.org/, http://www.regard3d.org/, http://cherrypy.org/, https://caddyserver.com/, https://github.com/cantino/huginn, https://nodered.org/

#2 2016-12-28 00:00:59

Bloughsburgh
Member

Re: Fundraising for 2017

Happy to help fuel the Quake.

Happy New Year!

#3 2016-12-28 10:30:12

Spirit
Administrator

Re: Fundraising for 2017

155/460 already, thank you guys!

Happy new year to you too, bluoouhuohburugh!

#4 2016-12-28 13:30:32

Spirit
Administrator

Re: Fundraising for 2017

246/460 <3

#5 2016-12-29 21:54:13

Spirit
Administrator

Re: Fundraising for 2017

*** 276/460! ***

#6 2016-12-30 17:13:28

Spirit
Administrator

Re: Fundraising for 2017

426/460! Last chance ;)

#7 2016-12-30 18:16:04

bfg666
Member

Re: Fundraising for 2017

Sorry Spirit, I'm kinda broke. You should really consider dropping that hugely overpriced host and get a more decent one, as discussed last month at Func_.

#8 2017-01-01 15:54:36

Spirit
Administrator

Re: Fundraising for 2017

No worries, others have filled the bucket already. Thank you!

I am not visiting func anymore, what was discussed about Quaddicted's host there? It is incredibly cheap for what I am getting and I am not going to ditch it. You might not realise but this server pushes terabytes and terabytes of archival data between this and there.


470/460!

#9 2017-01-02 15:27:00

generic
Member

Re: Fundraising for 2017

HAPPY NEW YEAR, SPIRIT! Sorry that I missed the fundraiser this time. I will be sure to contribute next time. Thanks!

#10 2017-01-03 13:32:24

bfg666
Member

Re: Fundraising for 2017

Or maybe it was QuakeOne? Dunno, I just browsed the Quaddicted thread at Func_ and couldn't find the discussion again. Basically, people felt like your host was vastly overpriced and that you could have the same service for much cheaper.

#11 2017-01-03 20:23:45

Spirit
Administrator

Re: Fundraising for 2017

Shout if you find it but I doubt you can find a cheaper host at the same quality. This is a i7-3770 with 16GB RAM, 6TB HDD on virtually unmetered 1 gbit/s.

#12 2017-01-04 18:04:37

negke
Moderator

Re: Fundraising for 2017

Thanks for supporting Quaddicted, everyone.

#13 2017-01-10 22:18:10

Spirit
Administrator

Re: Fundraising for 2017

570! Gonna buy a new leash and string for negke!

#14 2017-01-28 17:25:23

Spirit
Administrator

Re: Fundraising for 2017

580........

I bought a sealed copy of Deathmatch Maker for 30€ for ripping and scanning, will buy a suitable CD/DVD drive for <10€ next.

#15 2017-01-28 20:14:49

negke
Moderator

Re: Fundraising for 2017

Don't openly admit to squandering the donations! Do it discreetly like in the previous years. Lots of new Linux gadgets waiting to be bought...

#16 2017-01-30 17:25:34

Spirit
Administrator

Re: Fundraising for 2017

Also bought some more shovelware =)

And ordered the replacement server for 2€ less per month. \o/

#17 2017-02-09 16:57:25

Spirit
Administrator

Re: Fundraising for 2017

If you can read this, you are looking at Quaddicted on the new server. Please report any issues.

#18 2017-02-09 21:48:53

Quake_Player
Guest

Re: Fundraising for 2017

Spirit wrote:

If you can read this, you are looking at Quaddicted on the new server. Please report any issues.

Quake Injector is failing with a 'Database parsing failed!' message (HTTP exception).

#19 2017-02-10 07:52:31

Spirit
Administrator

Re: Fundraising for 2017

Thanks! Could you try if alpha03 works for you? https://github.com/hrehfeld/QuakeInjector/releases

Another issue is that the idgames mirroring is broken at the moment.

#20 2017-02-10 20:35:05

Quake_Player
Guest

Re: Fundraising for 2017

Spirit wrote:

Thanks! Could you try if alpha03 works for you? https://github.com/hrehfeld/QuakeInjector/releases

Another issue is that the idgames mirroring is broken at the moment.

Yes Quake Injector Alpha 3 does work and even when using offline mode, however it doesn't store online/offline mode in the configuration file.
Thanks Spirit.

#21 2017-02-10 20:43:34

Quake_Player
Guest

Re: Fundraising for 2017

Yes Quake Injector Alpha 3 does work and even when using offline mode, however it doesn't store online/offline mode in the configuration file.
Thanks Spirit.

I wish that the previous reply could be edited please ignore it, Quake Injector Alpha 3 does store that offline mode variable's state but will go online and download the database when started anew.

#22 2017-02-13 21:50:11

Spirit
Administrator

Re: Fundraising for 2017

585€ :D

#23 2017-02-14 16:05:55

TERMiNAL
Member

Re: Fundraising for 2017

Spirit wrote:

585€ :D

GREAT!

Now it's keep this thing going for another 20 years.

#24 2017-02-14 22:28:16

ericw
Member

Re: Fundraising for 2017

Seems to be working, here is some nitpicking on various alternate URL's (Firefox 51.0.1 on macOS 10.12.3):

https://www.quaddicted.com/ -> works
https://quaddicted.com -> Firefox error page "Your connection is not secure".. "quaddicted.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: datenatlas.de, www.datenatlas.de Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN"
http://quaddicted.com/ -> "Welcome to nginx!" (this is what Firefox goes to if you just enter "quaddicted.com" in the address bar)

#25 2017-02-15 14:31:54

Spirit
Administrator

Re: Fundraising for 2017

Non-www was never supported and won't be. Right now there is no redirect but once I fix the bug with broken downloads, it will redirect.

I get lots of disconnects for big downloads even with the current configuration, eg https://www.quaddicted.com/webarchive/w … 01.warc.gz :(

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