|
|
Post by Fafner on Oct 29, 2016 18:22:22 GMT
I've just noticed an announcement on the homepage of postimage.org that they may shut down the site soon because of financial troubles, which will mean that all the pictures on the forum will be gone. I hope the moderators have a plan b (like an alternative image host, or better to enable uploading images directly to the forum's servers). Just to let everybody know.
|
|
|
|
Post by dizzymoe33 on Oct 30, 2016 16:49:11 GMT
That is too bad if that happens, thank you for letting everyone know so we can come up with an idea to save the pictures.
|
|
|
|
Post by Zeebee on Oct 31, 2016 21:23:43 GMT
I hadn't heard about this until now. I have PMed Roxy about it.
|
|
|
|
Post by dizzymoe33 on Nov 5, 2016 19:16:09 GMT
From postimage.org I just visited this site a few minutes ago and this was at the bottom of the page "V is for Victory Thanks to your tremendous efforts and generous donations, the crisis has been averted. The victory belongs to you, our users. Your donations bought us enough time to keep our servers humming while we were figuring out what to do. Your technical expertise allowed us to cut some corners and employ clever tricks. Your connections finally allowed us to establish contact with parties that made a long-term solution affordable. Your emails kept us going on extra-long workdays, because we knew that you were counting on us. We hereby wish to thank everybody who extended their help and advice, and would especially like to mention and recommend the following parties: AdvancedHosters for their stellar tech support and for offering great terms for their CDN service SG.GS for their technical expertise and generous bandwidth consumption terms Also, the following parties readily came to our aid, although our needs did not exactly match their expertise: DaciHost for offering us a powerful dedicated server for free Aba-Soft for designing a custom private cloud solution to help us handle the uncached load Greta.io for offering their ingenious peer-2-peer CDN technology A special thank you goes to every single one of the 159 people who contributed a total of over $1700 of donations via PayPal. This would not be possible without you." postimage.org/ |
|
|
|
Post by lamagiadeabba on Nov 13, 2016 2:48:47 GMT
Agree with you Fafner
|
|
|
|
Post by Roxanne on Jan 16, 2017 2:14:41 GMT
I am keeping an eye on this situation.
Finding an alternative for image hosting is not an issue. But protecting the images already uploaded is.
To have all images hosted by the forum servers would be quite expensive. They include a certain amount of storage with the forum but not enough and to upgrade costs money.
What we need is a backup of all images - and at this point I have no idea how to go about that - but I am looking into it.
Postimage are determined to continue and not close down - so hopefully this does not become a problem.
But we definitely need a contingency plan just in case.
If anyone has information or suggestions, please feel free to share.
Roxanne
|
|
|
|
Post by Liebezeit on Mar 13, 2017 0:07:39 GMT
Came home from day tripping: before I went day tripping, Postimage.org was still working, but when I came home, I saw that Postimage.org's DNS server couldn't be found.
I remember seeing this thread, even before I joined the forum, and I found it again because I knew the expected outcome of it – It did close.
|
|
|
|
Post by Fafner on Mar 13, 2017 0:37:37 GMT
Liebezeit , everything works fine for me (the pictures are still normally displayed on the forum). Maybe there was an issue with their servers but it was temporary. You should be careful not to assume automatically that if a website is down or not available for some stretch of time (something that occasionally happens almost to every website, including our forum) then it means that it must be permanently closed, which is usually not the case.
|
|
|
|
Post by Liebezeit on Mar 13, 2017 20:32:02 GMT
Liebezeit , everything works fine for me (the pictures are still normally displayed on the forum). Maybe there was an issue with their servers but it was temporary. You should be careful not to assume automatically that if a website is down or not available for some stretch of time (something that occasionally happens almost to every website, including our forum) then it means that it must be permanently closed, which is usually not the case. Thanks for pointing it out: I've encountered some similar problems whereas the servers were down, with different websites of course, but never assumed it since I can't exactly determine if it's inevitable – The image hosting server I believed was closed permanently, is a definite false alarm due to my rather misinterpreted and sparsed connection between this thread and the current situation that PostImage.org has already been solved. I checked on my post from numerous threads and the recent images uploaded a day ago were affected, but images over a month doesn't seem to be affected. I should probably work on my impatience (quite fatal to my mind) and not reach to a sudden conclusion like this again, but it was worth guessing it, I'll admit. |
|
