IGN Decides To "discontinue Free Hosting Services"

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[Lardarse]

[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]

[MauveBib]

[Chip]

[Willem]

[Chip]

[CocoT]

[MauveBib]

[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.