Olympe
| Olympe | |
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 French free webhosting provider | |
| URL | http://olympe.in[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] |
| Status | Closing |
| Archiving status | In progress... |
| Archiving type | Unknown |
| Project source | olympe-grab |
| Project tracker | olympe |
| IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
Olympe is a French free webhosting service, that is scheduled to cease operations in June 2015.
Shutdown
According to their Twitter page,[1] and the notice on their website[2] (as of 2016-06-05, unknown when it was published), they have had financial problems, that is the reason for the shutdown.
The detailed notice translated by Google Translate, is as follows:[2]
- For over 9 years, the nonprofit organization Olympus provides more than 90 000 users powerful hosting services completely free and without advertising.
- Today, these services have to stop for lack of funding.
- You may know, for several weeks the association is in a difficult financial situation because of the redemption, the end of 2015, our main sponsor by a company no longer wishing to contribute to the financing of Olympus.
- Launching a crowdfunding campaign has raised nearly 12,000 euros, and we thank it for all contributors. However, this sum was far from the goal set to ensure long-term stability, so the services will be stopped definitively in the coming days. We advise all our users to backup their sites quickly and databases to migrate to another host.
- More information will be communicated as soon as possible, including the exact date of termination of services, we invite you to follow our Twitter account to be informed. Do not hesitate to contact us if you need help with this transition.
- Again, a big thank you for all the years of trust and sharing of common values. Turning the page but the book does not close ...
- The Olympus team
On June 4, the following short notice was posted on Twitter (again, Google Translate-d):[3]
- CLOSING OLYMPE. The services will be interrupted tonight. More information to come.
How can I help?
Running a Warrior
You can start up a Warrior and there select Olympe. (If you don't really care what you are archiving, select ArchiveTeam's Choice instead, as at some points ArchiveTeam may priorize another project.)
Running the script manually
If you use Linux and you're a bit familiar with it, you can try running the script directly.
The instructions can be found at github.com/ArchiveTeam/olympe-grab.
| Some additional information |
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| Don't forget to replace YOURNICKHERE with your nickname.
The number after If you want to stop the script, please do it gracefully if possible. To do so, create an empty file named STOP in the folder of the script (terminal command: If you see "Project code is out of date", kill the script, go to its folder ( |
Donating to the Internet Archive
Content downloaded by the ArchiveTeam will be uploaded to the Internet Archive, where it will be stored and be available – hopefully – forever. However, storing it costs thousands of dollars in the long run. So, if you can afford, please consider donating to the Internet Archive, so that this piece of history can be kept for us all. http://archive.org/donate
Do you like our cause?
If you want to help in other projects, want to learn more about ArchiveTeam, or even help in development in general, navigate to the Main Page of this wiki, from there you can reach a lot of information. The Team consists of volunteers working on the projects in their free time, so helping hands (and resources) are always welcome.