CODfiles (Filefront) Closes

[Tally]

CODfiles (Filefront) has officially closed as of 21st September. The site was a good resource for older mods for the Call of Duty series, going right back to 2003. I saw some of my old mods in there for COD1 and UO, dating from 2004.

Thus ends another era.

[php]

Another one bites the dust.
Noo where will I get my patch files now when I reinstalled my OS again.

[Mitch]

Another one bites the dust.
Noo where will I get my patch files now when I reinstalled my OS again.

You can still download some files that were added to GamersHell.com.

http://www.gamershell.com/pc/call_of...odern_warfare/
http://www.gamershell.com/pc/call_of_duty_2/
http://www.gamershell.com/pc/call_of_duty/

[CaptainSlow]

So sad.

You can still download some files that were added to GamersHell.com.

http://www.gamershell.com/pc/call_of...odern_warfare/
http://www.gamershell.com/pc/call_of_duty_2/
http://www.gamershell.com/pc/call_of_duty/

Maybe I need to scrape all those files and put them on my FTP in case they go down as well. Space is not an issue

[php]

So sad.



Maybe I need to scrape all those files and put them on my FTP in case they go down as well. Space is not an issue

Was thinking the same thing, also for the tutorial(s) which I'm afraid of will vanish eventually when all sites atm go down.

[Tally]

The thing is, whatever you put on your FTP site, it has to be there for years and years. I have old links to FTP sites that once hosted the patches, but they have been dead for many, many years.

[Ni3ls]

Yeah if you can host the tutorials?

[kung foo man]

As long we make us dependent on centralized servers/services, we will always be vulnerable to single point of failures.

Solution might be something out of this: https://www.google.com/search?q=bitt...ralized+backup

So everybody could join the "backup network" and as soon somebody adds a file, the others will backup/sync it too.

Though that might introduce some problems:
- collecting files
- sync scripts
- managing of illegal files
- malicious backup providers in general
- collecting of backup ip:port's
- categorizing of data to give a nice user interface for normal users

Maybe the only thing needed at first is some trust and 2-3 ppl who sync each other with some simple rsync script and http-dir-listing for users. When somebody kills his root coz > reasons, it's no big deal.

Would be nice if Filefront would rsync the CoD files to one of our servers... but I guess that won't happen.

[Mitch]

As long we make us dependent on centralized servers/services, we will always be vulnerable to single point of failures.

Solution might be something out of this: https://www.google.com/search?q=bitt...ralized+backup

So everybody could join the "backup network" and as soon somebody adds a file, the others will backup/sync it too.
Maybe the only thing needed at first is some trust and 2-3 ppl who sync each other with some simple rsync script and http-dir-listing for users. When somebody kills his root coz > reasons, it's no big deal.

Maybe a shared folder on Dropbox or related services?

Would be nice if Filefront would rsync the CoD files to one of our servers... but I guess that won't happen.

It couldn't hurt to ask. But i don't think i have enough free space for that on my VPS. Maybe on my own drives.

I don't think file front closed entirely they just stopped their front end sites and moved them all to gamefront.

See: http://www.gamefront.com/files/listi...all_of_Duty_2/

Edit: http://forums.filefront.com/announce...y-offline.html

[CaptainSlow]

The thing is, whatever you put on your FTP site, it has to be there for years and years. I have old links to FTP sites that once hosted the patches, but they have been dead for many, many years.

True, very true and I do realize that. A big plus is that the server I use as file mirror, is also my own personal storage server for documents and pictures. This way I won't let it go down that quickly, else I lose my own personal data as well

As long we make us dependent on centralized servers/services, we will always be vulnerable to single point of failures.

Solution might be something out of this: https://www.google.com/search?q=bitt...ralized+backup

So everybody could join the "backup network" and as soon somebody adds a file, the others will backup/sync it too.

Though that might introduce some problems:
- collecting files
- sync scripts
- managing of illegal files
- malicious backup providers in general
- collecting of backup iport's
- categorizing of data to give a nice user interface for normal users

Maybe the only thing needed at first is some trust and 2-3 ppl who sync each other with some simple rsync script and http-dir-listing for users. When somebody kills his root coz > reasons, it's no big deal.

Would be nice if Filefront would rsync the CoD files to one of our servers... but I guess that won't happen.

The solution you pose is indeed robust but also comes with some drawbacks, some of which are easier to overcome than others. For some problems in your list I have a solution in mind, for others I do not have a quick solution at hand.
Bittorrent Sync might be an option to sync between backup hosts, as an easy alternative to rsync. Drawback is that it's still beta software in my opinion. I've been using Bittorrent Sync for about a year now to sync my files between my computers and my server. Often files remain locked for no reason and won't be synced which is really annoying. Also, it uses a lot of RAM.
That still leaves us with the other issues on your list, for example a directory listing. In order to know which files can be downloaded and be able to download the files, you first must download and install BTSync and get access to the folder using the secret key. Of course I could install BTSync and have it sync into a IIS inetpub folder with directory listing enabled, but it ain't pretty.

Maybe a shared folder on Dropbox or related services?


It couldn't hurt to ask. But i don't think i have enough free space for that on my VPS. Maybe on my own drives.

I don't think file front closed entirely they just stopped their front end sites and moved them all to gamefront.

See: http://www.gamefront.com/files/listi...all_of_Duty_2/

Edit: http://forums.filefront.com/announce...y-offline.html

MEGA is a Dropbox alternative/clone and gives 50GB of free storage, the most you can get for free at any cloud sharing service. Another option is to buy Office365 for a year, you'll get 1TB of OneDrive for free. Both still have the same issue when it comes to indexing.

Anyway, currently I have 6.18TB (that's 6180GB) free on my server. I think that should suffice for now.

Background info: 2 years ago I bought a Synology RS814+ with 4x3TB in RAID10 and co-located it in a datacenter. It's connected using 1Gbps and I have a bandwidth allowance of 5TB (5000GB) every month.I got rid of all cloud services and use it as my personal file storage server. Using BTSync I sync my files. Additionally it automatically downloads my favorite TV shows etc. It's pretty much overkill but hey, never can have enough space!

Let me know if you guys are interested, maybe we can work something out.