SpaceDock.info (Mod Hosting Site)

[Snark 10,402]

The usual obligatory nudge to update available versions on SpaceDock, now that KSP 1.6 has released.

As always, thank you, @VITAS, for all the hard work you do in continuing to support the website. 

[VITAS 637]

thank you and done

[Stone Blue 1,124]

@VITAS Unfortunatly, its "that" time again

1.6.1 now out

and as always, THANK YOU
 

 

[VITAS 637]

ACK & THX :)

[Stone Blue 1,124]

Sorry... I forgot to ping you yesterday, when it dropped

[VITAS 637]

12 hours ago, Stone Blue said:

Sorry... I forgot to ping you yesterday, when it dropped

No problem. it gives the mod authors time to update their mods before theyre marked as outdated 

But seriously: its nice of you for doing it at all.

 

[Stone Blue 1,124]

6 hours ago, VITAS said:

But seriously: its nice of you for doing it at all.

Least I can do... wish I could do moar

Incidentally, I use SD a *LOT* ... if you were ever to check logs, I guess you'ld see... lol
Other than the last couple months, I think I probably have ~98% of the hosted mods and past versions saved on my HDD  ... lol
so if you ever lose the database, hit me up... lol

SD is my first choice for downloads

Edited January 11 by Stone Blue

[TiktaalikDreaming 1,449]

Agreed. I don't want to rubbish a site, but curse is plainly awful. I'd rather do the investigative click journey looking for the releases sections in github than touch curse. Spacedock is by far the most user friendly mod home.

[Stone Blue 1,124]

Yup... Curse is my last download choice... I do use it to reference KSP version vs mod version, for pre-SD *** malicious site we no longer use *** mods.
Heck, most of any old Curse links in mod threads dont work... you have to use the search feature on Curse
Plus I use KSP Mod Analyzer, and unfortunately, it no longer works for Curse mods since they changed their API
KSP Mod Analyzer helps find Github-only stuff...

Edited January 11 by Stone Blue

[VITAS 637]

Thank you. Your usage and above all your support keeps this site going.

I wish too i could do more.
The Site still needs a total rewrite, lots of Bugs need fixing and migrating it to a newer server wouldn't hurt ( i wished there was a dedicated coder base, that would improve the sites code.)
All im doing for some time now is to keep it running.
I would like to enable others to add new versions, do sysadmin work on the server and so on, but its still on the same system as many of my other things so giving someone root isnt possible.
But IF someone would be willing to set up a new instance and help me migrate stuff from the old (that would include my mailserver) we could do that.
*looks at @linuxgurugamer   *

In terms of DB and Mod Backups:

I currently backup everything daily to some backup storage in the datacenter the server is in, use RAID 1 and do unregular backups to a NAS at the oposite end of Germany.
So we should be good.
Because all mods are free to download i would have no problem offering a zip containing all mods to someone for safekeeping. I cant offer the db as dump because it may contain sensetive information, even if i exclude the account tables.

I keep track of the site usage. Mainly to give me a good feeling when seeing the usercount (its the same good feeling i get when i reveal to ksp players i meet, that im the one hosting SpaceDock)

I always had the idea of building a suggested mod system off the statistics like youtue and others use for their content but since i dont even get arround migrating my servers...
 

[linuxgurugamer 10,399]

1 hour ago, VITAS said:

But IF someone would be willing to set up a new instance and help me migrate stuff from the old (that would include my mailserver) we could do that.
*looks at @linuxgurugamer   *

*looks back* @VITAS

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