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Título: Funet MSX area offline, msxarchive.nl online Publicado por: omegamsx en 28 de Mayo de 2006, 08:46:46 pm Hi guys!
The people at Funet have recently changed their policy regarding hobby related and non scientific areas on their servers. Amongst others, the MSX area was asked to arrange for other hosting. Started in 1993, the Funet MSX ftp archive has been in existence for 13 years, so it is really the end of an era. I have been the maintainer of the MSX area since 1996, following up Roderik Muit. I have decided to continue maintaining the site for the time being, and put it online at this new url: http://www.msxarchive.nl There are redirects in place at the Funet server, so old http links will keep working because they will be directed to the same files at the new server. But webmasters be advised: change your links! At this time, it has not yet been possible to enable anonymous ftp on the new server. I wonder if there are still many users connecting through ftp? There are also benefits from changing the server: now there is the possibility for building a mysql/php oriented search function! I'll see how this can be used in the future, but I'm no good php/web coder myself. Best regards, Tristan Título: Re: Funet MSX area offline, msxarchive.nl online Publicado por: pitpan en 28 de Mayo de 2006, 11:54:54 pm Welcome to this site. It is too sad to hear that Funet will no longer host any MSX files. As you said, it is the end of an era: IIRC I connected to funet for the first time in 1994 and it was great to discover that people were still MSXing.
Thank you for mantaining it and thank you too for finding a new hosting solution for it. I have always used FTP, but if there is not another solution, I will connect using web. Best luck for this second age! ;) Título: Re: Funet MSX area offline, msxarchive.nl online Publicado por: omegamsx en 30 de Mayo de 2006, 11:07:18 am No problem ;)
I have been adminning the site since 1996 and i thought it was a shame to put all these files offline. The hosting nowadays is a lot cheaper for this kind of storage, the archive is about 3.4GB in size. I will have a look at the ftp access. Any other comments or requests are welcome! Regards! Título: Re: Funet MSX area offline, msxarchive.nl online Publicado por: Wolf_ en 30 de Mayo de 2006, 01:26:06 pm hosting of mp3's.. like game-rearranges 'n stuff..
Título: Re: Funet MSX area offline, msxarchive.nl online Publicado por: omegamsx en 31 de Mayo de 2006, 04:22:27 pm Good idea,...
I will not risk putting mp3 OST's of games online though :D So.. anyone looking for (re)arranged msx mp3 hosting, -> me :) Título: Re: Funet MSX area offline, msxarchive.nl online Publicado por: xenon en 01 de Junio de 2006, 02:40:20 pm My request is simple: order all the FTP contents (update something) and do something like a index.
But for me, Funet now MSXARCHIVE is a total reference! |