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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: curtis on May 22, 2013, 08:54:38 PM

Title: Amiga Hardware Database down
Post by: curtis on May 22, 2013, 08:54:38 PM
Has anyone else been having problems with the Hardware Database at http://amiga.resource.cx/

I keep getting a server reset error.  Tried pinging and no luck either.

Curtis
Title: Re: Amiga Hardware Database down
Post by: zipper on May 22, 2013, 09:13:33 PM
It happens every now and then.
Title: Re: Amiga Hardware Database down
Post by: direktorn on May 22, 2013, 09:35:03 PM
Has been down almost a week, are other threads here about it. Try waybackmachine.
Title: Re: Amiga Hardware Database down
Post by: Ami_GFX on May 24, 2013, 12:28:03 AM
Sometime around 2007, I spidered the site and made a fairly complete offline backup. If it stays down much longer, I will go looking for my archive in a mess of backup disks from years ago. I would be willing to share my archive but I would like some consent from the site owners if possible. I don't know if it is but I should at least try to contact them.
Title: Re: Amiga Hardware Database down
Post by: Gulliver on May 24, 2013, 07:33:42 AM
Quote from: Ami_GFX;735871
Sometime around 2007, I spidered the site and made a fairly complete offline backup. If it stays down much longer, I will go looking for my archive in a mess of backup disks from years ago. I would be willing to share my archive but I would like some consent from the site owners if possible. I don't know if it is but I should at least try to contact them.


I made a backup of the entire site about a year ago, and I still keep it. So if anyone wants to revive it, just let me know and I will send it his/her way.

Anyway, hope it is not really dead,
Title: Re: Amiga Hardware Database down
Post by: VingtTrois on May 24, 2013, 07:54:12 AM
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=64966

I also have a backup (1.15GB) but I don't have the disks files :(
Title: Re: Amiga Hardware Database down
Post by: bitman on May 24, 2013, 08:22:36 AM
I've tried to get in contact with the owner/maintainer for the past months.

I could host a mirror under BBoAH.

Quote from: VingtTrois;735901
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=64966

I also have a backup (1.15GB) but I don't have the disks files :(
Title: Re: Amiga Hardware Database down
Post by: LonesomeAmiga on May 24, 2013, 09:14:59 AM
I can host it too - it's a few GBs in total I guess ?

More than one mirror would be useful, I suppose :-)
Title: Re: Amiga Hardware Database down
Post by: zipper on May 24, 2013, 10:33:21 AM
The latest Wayback snapshots seem to have the disk images, too. At least that one I tried to download with success.
Title: Re: Amiga Hardware Database down
Post by: VingtTrois on May 24, 2013, 12:14:08 PM
The website is now ONLINE!!!! :)
Title: Re: Amiga Hardware Database down
Post by: nicholas on May 24, 2013, 02:08:38 PM
Hmmm, methinks I shall spider the entire site (Text, pics and disk images) later tonight.
Title: Re: Amiga Hardware Database down
Post by: direktorn on May 24, 2013, 05:34:44 PM
Seems to be hosted at the Deak Ferenc County Library in Hungary.
A few mirrors would not be bad.
 
doing a wget -m now just to see how that works.
Title: Re: Amiga Hardware Database down
Post by: LonesomeAmiga on May 24, 2013, 05:41:13 PM
It's a Perl site - so we'd probably need a full access mirror to serve it up properly from somewhere else. WGet will definitely get you images, HTML pages and probably the disk files though :-)

Did anyone get an answer from the site owner ? As previously mentioned, it would be nice to get a dialogue going and some permissions for mirroring, etc.
Title: Re: Amiga Hardware Database down
Post by: sdyates on August 11, 2013, 10:45:28 PM
I used to be in contact with him several years ago. Then about two years ago he stopped responding and the mailbox became full. Not sure what happened. However, He gave me permission to port his content over the Retro Game and Computer (RetroGameAndComputer.com)

I got most ported over, but stopped working on the site in 2012 when I could not cover the hosting fees. I am back now and with the help of others, we are filling in the missing holes.

For those who miss the Amiga Hardware Database, please take a look at my site. Regards.
Title: Re: Amiga Hardware Database down
Post by: bitman on August 11, 2013, 10:54:33 PM
If you can't host it - it can be hosted at BBoAH..
Title: Re: Amiga Hardware Database down
Post by: SysAdmin on August 11, 2013, 10:58:36 PM
Here is a backup of it that I host.

http://discreetfx.com/community.html
Title: Re: Amiga Hardware Database down
Post by: sdyates on August 12, 2013, 03:41:11 AM
The more mirrors the better. I am merging the database into my whole site as a one stop source. Not just for us Amiga fans, but for commodore, Atari and so on. Let me know if you have any Commodore stuff I could add.