I wanna die in bed surrounded by fat grandchildren, but guess that's off the menu.

Jenny ,'Bring On The Night'


ita's thread

A place where we can talk about ita, miss ita, and share information about memorials. The hugging started over here in Natter.


Gris - Jul 16, 2015 4:07:41 pm PDT #1933 of 3157
Hey. New board.

I'm happy to host it but assuming I can get it archived in a logical day would it make sense to propose that we host it here instead? Perhaps at a sub domain like provocateuse.Buffistas.org with a in memo roam sort of front page?


Dana - Jul 16, 2015 4:21:01 pm PDT #1934 of 3157
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I just worry about the bandwidth for all those images.


Gris - Jul 16, 2015 4:29:35 pm PDT #1935 of 3157
Hey. New board.

Bandwidth is not the issue it once was I think. Not unless we start our own Netflix. I would bet our Dreamhost account offers essentially unlimited for this sort of thing. I ran a forum with several thousand uploaded images on it on the lowest Dreamhost tier for quite a while with no issues.


Jesse - Jul 16, 2015 4:33:00 pm PDT #1936 of 3157
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

We run into bandwidth issues occasionally as-is, so we'd need to upgrade the site.


Vortex - Jul 16, 2015 5:51:55 pm PDT #1937 of 3157
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I would be willing to donate to keep provocateuse, but I think that we should keep it separate from b.org. It's a lot of bandwidth, and I wouldn't want it to interfere with b.org or be a problem if we needed to separate them.


Gris - Jul 16, 2015 6:14:20 pm PDT #1938 of 3157
Hey. New board.

Well, I have the archiver software running. It will take a while, and I think I'm going to need to archive each subdomain separately and then clean up the code to make it all work. I am certainly happy to host it at least until we see if we need to try to work something else out.

I don't own any reasonable domain names - I will probably put it on provocateuse.grizzy.org for now. I'm sure we could raise the money to register the domain but unfortunately it is coming up as already registered - I assume ita's hosting expired but not her registration. But getting it up and running is the hard part - changing the domain name is the work of five minutes.

I'm currently assuming we will be archiving it more as a memorial than a living site to be changed. If we'd rather try to keep it alive, then I can give somebody a username to access the code once it's all up and running, since that's not really my domain (I've never actually visited the site until today, but it seems like the right thing to do to save it if we can.)


Dana - Jul 16, 2015 6:30:48 pm PDT #1939 of 3157
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I don't mean to dump it all on you, I just have no time until the weekend.


Gris - Jul 16, 2015 6:33:33 pm PDT #1940 of 3157
Hey. New board.

Not a problem. I love this kind of project and it is the kind of thing I can actually help with. It's nice to feel useful.


Beverly - Jul 16, 2015 10:07:43 pm PDT #1941 of 3157
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I am clueless and hopeless with this kind of thing, but I'm willing to throw money at it, when it will help. Throwing money at things, I'm good at.


Gris - Jul 17, 2015 5:02:12 am PDT #1942 of 3157
Hey. New board.

Okay. It is downloading. The version I tried last night was getting stuck, so I aborted, went back to HTTrack. It seems to be working well, but only by telling it to ignore the directory structure of the original site.

What this means is that the site will come out in a format that will be totally useable, but NOT logical. So continuing to add to it will be difficult or impossible.

This leads to the question: is it worth it? Does it make more sense to just leave it on the Wayback machine, which already has it archived, and add a link to it on Buffista links? Recreating ita's original code and directory structure is not really possible.