Is Rubicon Foundation's Archive defunct?

[kelemvor]

I was trying to look something up this morning and am getting timeouts connecting to archive.rubicon-foundation.org Does anyone know if the site is still being maintained and I'm just unluckily hitting it during a period of temporary downtime? Or is it the worst case, and it's gone?

 

[tbone1004]

hardware issues on the server. it's being worked on. I'm good friends with the founders. Moving to cloud based hosting and the transfer went funky. Hope to have it back up in a week or two

 

[John C. Ratliff]

We need that service to stay with us. The Rubicon Research Repository is a huge asset to the diving community.

SeaRat

 

[Darcy Kieran]

So... Is it permanently dead?

 

[tbone1004]

not yet, still working on it.

 

[kelemvor]

If they need help, I'd be glad to lend a hand.. or a server. I have a "dedicated" dual xeon server with a gigabit uplink and about 2TB of free solid state storage available. Quotes because it's already running two very low volume sites for my son and I.

It's IIS/Windows Server, so if you were setup to run from Apache/Linux that might be a problem.

Heck, even if they get it back up it might be beneficial to have a mirror available.

 

[dmaziuk]

Just install WSL2 and Docker desktop and you can run a lot of Linux -based stuff. (Also modern .NET stuff that you can build for Linux Docker deployment.)

 

[kensuf]

add a "me too" to the list of people volunteering to help.

 

[dmaziuk]

@tbone1004's post about transfer going funky and "hardware issues" sound suspiciously like RAID/file corruption. Hopefully that's not it and/or they have a recent backup.

 

[Reku]

I don't know if this is still an issue. If it is see below if it isn't disregard.

I volunteer to assist with any data recovery, rebuilding or maintaining that is required to keep this project alive. I can mirror the site if required. just pm me.