Forgottenfutures.com down

[ffutures]

Forgottenfutures.com, which hosts most of my Victorian and Edwardian material and game-related files, has been down for the last couple of days, cause unknown but believed to be a server problem since hosting fees and domain registration are up to date. Annoyingly it's hanging rather than giving an error message. Many of the files accessed from forgottenfutures.co.uk are actually housed on forgottenfutures.com, so until this is fixed I can only apologise profusely.

Later Looks like it's back on line. No explanation, which I find a little annoying.

Comments

[adrian-middle.livejournal.com]

Do you have a mirror site?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

No - it's something I need to look into, but like a lot of other things it has been waiting on me redesigning my site.

[adrian-middle.livejournal.com]

Is your main content html articles or images and .pdfs?

I'm using wetpaint myself. Its a glorified content management system using wysywig tools instead of HTML, which makes set-up incredibly fast and revisions extremely easy. It calls itself a wiki but, to be honest, its go much more potential.

As most of your stuff's public domain it could be a pretty useful back-up. I have two wetpaint sites, my Doctor Who one and my Hitchhiker's role-playing one (http://hitchhikers.wetpaint.com/). I started the latter started on July 1st and have only been sporadic in my updates, but its already up to more than 150 pages. I'd expect pdf-driven site should be much easier to populate.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I currently need about 120mb of file space - what are their limits?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Never mind - just took a look, and while their terms seem fair enough, I need to be able to move large quantities of documents without having to cut and paste them one by one. I'd also prefer to avoid advertising on the pages.

[adrian-middle.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. At the moment they have a single attachments page where downloadable documents (.pdfs and text documents) are kept. There are limits to them - 1MB per attachment and a maximum of 20 attachments, so if you had 120MB of text files you'd be stuffed.


I'm planning to shift to a new ad-free URL soon because they allow you to transfer hosting and keep the design.

[adrian-middle.livejournal.com]

There's currently no limit because they're trialling the technology. See the technical FAQ (http://www.wetpaintcentral.com/page/About+Wetpaint+Sites).

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Looks like my site is back up anyway.