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...
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.
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.
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. ... 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
...and all around me was the chaos of battle and the reek of running blood.... and for the first time in my life I knew true happiness.
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/h ... tenamehere 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.
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