Perhaps it would be good for a handfull of driven people to get together and discuss the current crisis. If the mirrors are dying, we should look at setting up new ones...

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IIRC, the last time something major happened to WUArchive, the German mirror took over as the main site.

Not sure why that hasn't happened this time (although I can't seem to access it through FTPMount for some reason). Has anybody emailed Urban Müller yet?

Chris

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Such a shame aminet has so much software and is such a great resource it will be a massive losss to lose it .

Yeh, this is really ugly. But maybe it's for the best. Maybe Aminet needs a face lift. Maybe an integration with os4depot! I have having stuff in many places. We should have ONE stop for our Amiga file needs.

/shoe

huff this is the thing i have fear'd all the way.....

wish i had some hdd space to leech all of it but i dont atm.

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Don't know if you have noticed, but there's a new search engine, or frontend to aminet now.
Ever tried to search for the lha unpacker on aminet, without knowing the full name of the archive? Well, it's almost impossible.. but here it's easy. You just type in lha%. and it searches for lha+anything+dot+whatever.. ie, lha#?. and gets those results. Also has an option to add screenshots and way more.

Perhaps that could be the "frontend" to aminet in the future? Now we just need some mirror sites.. and if it's just 20GB, I'd be willing to set something up.

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If someone could give a mirror bandwidth estimate Id consider it.

@DaveP

Probably doesn't help too much as it covers the whole of WUArchive, but here are some access stats for FTP and HTTP

You can probably make a best-guess estimate based on some of the retrieved Aminet files at the top of the popular files lists.

Chris

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Poster: OSS542 Date: 26-Sep-2004 5:20:40 I have checked the current status of the sites as of Sep 26, 2004, based on the list of aminet mirrors on ftp.unina.it, and here is what I found : USA us.aminet.net Complete mirror, full WWW support (gone) Germany de.aminet.net Complete mirror, full WWW support (working) UK uk.aminet.net Complete mirror, full WWW support (gone)

Actually, the uk aminet site is not gone. The url (if looked up via google always finds wustl), but if you manually go to UK Aminet, the url works as usual.

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Does not look good..

If i would have enough money for the hardware and hosting costs, I would mirror the whole Aminet and start a Finnish Aminet mirror.

A friend of mine told me about a quite cheap serverhotel with atleast 100Mbit bandwith. He already has server running there. It was something like 25EUR/month. You have to use your own hardware and stuff does not make any maintenance, you have to do everything by yourself. You also have to pay them some euros/hour if you are going to make some hardware changes or something like that. But it's still quite cheap.

But right now I'm just a poor student..