Hotline Server is up

[slomacuser]

You can always get files from my server as it's up 24/7, access it via: ftp://guest:guest@kdxvcfa.dyndns.ws ... Quadrajet, I am fully willing to host a mirror of your files if you'd like. I can even pay shipping and either pay for media you buy for sending a copy of the files or buy and mail you the media for the files, if you're interested contact me via PM.

WoW! Thats Awsome, I was looking for something like that! Great!

It is a little slow, anyway I have some stuff that can be uploaded ...

[John Musbach]

No problem, glad I can help out the community. Anyways about the speed, I apologize that it's slow but like quadrajet I'm operating off of a home broadband connection and as such while the download speed is quite good the upload speed is horrible (and when you download from my server it uses my upload bandwidth). I cannot offer more then 25kb/s upload bandwidth at any given time, doing so causes all other internet activity to slow to a crawl and as such I have my server setup to split 25kb/s of upload bandwidth between ftp, http (http://kdxvcfa.dyndns.ws:8080 same username/pass as ftp), and kdx (kdxvcfa.dyndns.ws no user/pass) and so depending on the server load the speed can be relatively fast and sometimes it can be really slow. I apologize but I just don't have the money to colocate it, I will be going to college next year however and am hoping that the college I end up at will be willing to sponsor the server and allow me to put it on their internet connection unmetered for all you guys. Enjoy!

[Cory5412]

I didn't say this, but many Universities have a policy that they'll let you run your own HTTP/FTP server, so long as you don't get called on it by DMCA enforcers RIAA/MPAA/BSA, and so long as it doesn't bring down their network. (i.e. your server *must* use DHCP.)

The benefit of this for you and people using your server is that many universities have ten megs from the dorm rooms to the Internet, which might be nothing compared to Finland or Japan, is very impressive for the USA.

[John Musbach]

That's good to know, however I think that varies from college to college. The local stanford college here has a bandwidth hog list and people who get themselves up there get their internet access pulled, obviously a file server like mine on a unmetered college connection would likely get up there pretty fast so that'd be a concern I'd need to work out with the tech department.

[Cory5412]

at NAU, we don't meter the bandwidth that I know of, but if you're seriously hindering performance or availability of the network for other users, we do something about it. What I'd do if it's possible is just install a software limiter of the bandwidth on your machine, or set up your own little router that limits the speed at which your server can transfer files to the Internet so you don't get put on any kind of bandwidth-hogging list.

Of course, that's presuming your university doesn't specifically forbid running servers.

[dpaanlka]

I'm not so concerned about the slow speed as I keep getting disconnected after only a few moments of downloading. Anyone else have this problem?

[register]

If you have them installed on different partitions, you can select which one to boot from by holding alt/option when you boot (on new-world machines). Unfortunately, that doesn't work for different versions on the same partition, but apart from OS 9 and OS X, that's not really practical anyway.

In earlier Mac OSs you easily can choose to boot from a distinct drive with the help of FWB Harddisk Toolkit. It can be configured to address the startup volume during the boot processs with a key combo. It might not work for multiple partitions on the same drive, but this would be a nice project for the code warrior department, would it not ?

[Unknown_K]

So what happend to Quadrajets?

[Unknown_K]

I'm not so concerned about the slow speed as I keep getting disconnected after only a few moments of downloading. Anyone else have this problem?

Same issues here, I downloaded desqview (40MB) from one of his mirrored sites and it took days of constant reconnects to get it.

[eastone]

HELP!!!
My favourite server NOT WORKING!!!!


If anybody knows why does not work?

[John Musbach]

I apologize, I realize that my server has died. Unfortunately it died and it didn't shoot off a shutdown, reboot or sleep email which is odd and suggests that it may have frozen up. Worse yet, I can't ssh into the server and since I have no available on hands support I won't be able to resolve this issue until I can come home from college during a upcoming break. I will try to look into and resolve this problem as soon as possible, but I'm afraid that it may be a while before I can even start to look into this.

[slomacuser]

what I found about this hotline server or any other is that there are duplicates and corrupted data which is useless ...

[John Musbach]

Email me at vcfawebmaster@gmail.com with the location of these bad files and I'll gladly delete them.

[eastone]

Thank's and I'm waiting for GOOD NEWS NOW!

[John Musbach]

The server is now back online, turns out someone accidentally hit the standby button on the modem

[Mike Richardson]

I need to put up a server. I have 1.5 Mbps upload (tops out at about 180 KB/sec) and I could assign a good deal of that to a Hotline server or something like that running on an old Mac. I should set up my Q950 with the big SCSI raid to do that.

[Christopher]

My upload is like 120KB/s I could too but it seems that AT&T blocks this kind of thing.

[Mike Richardson]

My upload is like 120KB/s I could too but it seems that AT&T blocks this kind of thing.

They don't block servers. Maybe port 80 or port 23 but you can just run it on a different port.

[paws]

My upload is like 120KB/s I could too but it seems that AT&T blocks this kind of thing.

They don't block servers. Maybe port 80 or port 23 but you can just run it on a different port.

... which you really should, anyways.

[Ebbi]

How about the server?
Is it completely gone or temporarily off?

I noticed that a few sites went off when doing a Google search for "kdxvcfa.dyndns.ws".

[John Musbach]

It is offline for now, getting dedicated data center space donated soon so good news will follow shortly.