Whoa! Did not see that coming.

Scottelly wrote:

jande9 wrote:

SigmaChrome wrote:

Jeffry7 wrote:

jande9 wrote:

DPR is a huge repository of information and research. Deleting it is like burning down a library. There is an enormous amount of real information on here.

There needs to be a way of preserving the information on the site and keeping it accessible to the thousands who use it every day.

Maybe Bezos could make it part of Prime or something.

Jan

The people behind the internet archive feel the same as you do, but include many many sites on the internet. They are concerned about all that lost data as companies and individuals bring websites down, sometimes with invaluable information.

DPReview is being archived by them.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/www.dpreview.com

Brilliant! Everyone on DPR really needs to know about this.

Thanks for the link, Jeffry.

It doesn't seem to preserve the structure. Does anyone know how big the site is? You could use HTTRACK to grab the whole thing if you had a big enough drive.

Jan

Including the full-size jpegs, I'm sure it's many TB. Still, a 22 TB hard drive is just a few hundred dollars these days, right?

https://www.newegg.com/gold-wd221kryz-22tb/p/N82E16822234525

I bet we could put together a nice server, with about 100 TB of RAID storage for about $5,000. Anyone want to pitch in a grand to help save/archive DPreview? Oh, and it'll need to be colocated somewhere for $100 per month or so . . . and maintained by someone too, so it will keep running, and be available to the users. I guess those expenses could be paid for with advertising revenue . . . most of the time. But who will sell/facilitate the advertising, so there is advertising revenue?

Oh, and a review site with no new reviews will go stale pretty quickly, so who here wants to take over the job of posting a camera review once a month? (Two volunteers would be ideal, so there would be at least two new cameras reviewed each month.)

Every thing is possible. Hosing the data’s, today, isn’t a big problem. The problem is the bandwidth and connection’s. Where the cost start to had up is in the server trafic of connections and pictures uploading and compression (and speed). Depending on you host, the price for, let say, 1500 ip interactions a day, will get between 100/400 dollars per month… ppl behind should have the skills to backup and update the forum without breaking it too.