IGN Decides To "discontinue Free Hosting Services"

by **CocoT** » Tue May 26, 2009 11:06 pm

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...

by **MauveBib** » Tue May 26, 2009 11:27 pm

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.

by **CocoT** » Wed May 27, 2009 2:00 am

by **MeTcHsteekle** » Wed May 27, 2009 2:22 am

"looks like you're up shit creek"

by **leileilol** » Wed May 27, 2009 8:47 am

IGN's closing Modcenter too, which is also another free hosting service for mods.

AI Cafe must be saved at all costs.

by **Willem** » Wed May 27, 2009 9:26 am

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.

by **MauveBib** » Wed May 27, 2009 10:38 am

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

by **Spirit** » Wed May 27, 2009 10:39 am

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

by **CocoT** » Wed May 27, 2009 12:18 pm

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.

by **Willem** » Wed May 27, 2009 1:13 pm

by **Lardarse** » Wed May 27, 2009 1:15 pm

by **scar3crow** » Wed May 27, 2009 3:22 pm

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.

by **FrikaC** » Wed May 27, 2009 5:04 pm

Could always move to Geocities. Oh wait, nm.

by **metlslime** » Wed May 27, 2009 8:56 pm

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.

by **Spirit** » Thu May 28, 2009 7:20 am

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