IGN Decides To "discontinue Free Hosting Services"

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http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/ikq/
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/minion/

have to be saved!

[Lardarse]

http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/ikq/
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/minion/

have to be saved!

minion I've nearly finished. I'll do ikq after.

EDIT:
http://pineapple.servegame.com/ignsucks/aicafe.zip

All of the files that I could find are there. Grabbed the files from FilePlanet as well, so that it's all in one place, and so anyone browsing doesn't have to go anywhere near that horrible site.

I did this largely without passing the -m flag to wget, so a lot of the links are potentially broken. I'm not sure exactly how many.

I did manage to find a tutorial that wasn't linked to from the list of tutorials - enviro.htm - that's in there as well.

I'll be putting future dumps in that folder, so look back every now and then. See also the README. I'm planning to do that TODO list there in the order it's listed.

[Chip]

I just read the posts here and at func_message board and I can't believe why IGN is doing such a stupid move. I do web programming and hosting and there is no way in hell they can't have free (hosted) websites along with their own website. In the worst case, the hosted sites could have been frozen while migrating, and what you people are doing by saving old websites offline, IGN could have done that, too.

It's all about profit. The old sites were inactive, and they were not generating the traffic IGN expected, so the "best" solution was to shut it down.

I'm still brainstorming to see what I can do to help my favourite game community/archives/tutorials/everything.

I might copy all the hosted websites, and re-arrange them in a personal database, something like a wiki (there was a discussion here about creating a Quake wiki site). All inactive/old/ancient websites reformatted and added to an encyclopedia (same design and all). I just might do this.

Could you give a rough estimate of how many websites need to be saved? Is it 500? 1000? 5000? So I can think of a strategy.

LE: Let's make a list of all hosted websites. So we can have a TODO list to update. Everyone will work on saving some websites and you could help me save time. I will host all the websites (I'm still thinking about large files, but I'll come up with a solution soon).

So,

1. Make a list.
2. Start saving.

Another LE:

Seconds ago, I just acquired the quakewiki.net domain. The wheels are turning (or the balls are rolling).

[leileilol]

so far i have:

the shitty qca site
cheapalert's shitty site
all nehahra files

[Willem]

As a note, feel free to throw whatever onto Quaketastic for archiving purposes. It's not ideal or anything but if you're looking for a vault...

[Chip]

You should create a special folder for site dumps. We will sort them out later.

[MauveBib]

Are any of the quake sites like quakedev.com or similar still offering hosting? I need to find somewhere to park the ELF.

[Chip]

Are any of the quake sites like quakedev.com or similar still offering hosting? I need to find somewhere to park the ELF.

I don't think so. You could send me the files and I will add them to quakewiki.net. What do you say?

[MauveBib]

Are any of the quake sites like quakedev.com or similar still offering hosting? I need to find somewhere to park the ELF.

I don't think so. You could send me the files and I will add them to quakewiki.net. What do you say?

Thanks, but I'm not looking to archive my site, since it's not entirely dead and I do intend to update it from time to time

[Chip]

Well, I intend to offer subdomains with full access for administration. Somewhere in the future. Right now I could provide you with a subdomain and FTP user/pass.

[Willem]

OK, I created a new directory called "site_archives" for anyone that wants to store a spidered PQ site on Quaketastic.

[Chip]

http://www.quaddicted.com/stuff/hosted. ... y.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.

Spirit posted a list here (I missed it), and I will start building the mirror archives. Thanks Spirit.

Pic of the day:

[CocoT]

A couple of further suggestions:

http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/teamevolve/
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/creatorsdream/
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/headhunters/
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/jitspoe/
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/nehahra/
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/proquake/
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/qbism/
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/rocketland/
http://hosted.planetquake.gamespy.com/tae/

http://dazdranz.planetquake.gamespy.com/
http://minako.planetquake.gamespy.com/
http://qmatrix.planetquake.gamespy.com/

I'm away this week-end up but I'll certainly keep on working on this next week and see what I can do in terms of saving stuff.
I think the idea of a strong, new Quakewiki sounds very appealing.

[MauveBib]

Well, I intend to offer subdomains with full access for administration. Somewhere in the future. Right now I could provide you with a subdomain and FTP user/pass.

I might well take you up on that offer. Then again, I might take this opertunity to redesign the site, clear junk out and actually get a domain for it. Not sure yet.

[MauveBib]

I'm in the process of downloading my site now, and you would not believe the amount of crap I've accumulated there over 9 years of hosting...

I'm going to have to do a big clear-out regardless of where I host it.