Johan (Keyholder)
28th July 2018, 21:06
A sanctuary, a place to find likeminded souls, a break from a society that prefers to remain unaware, finding good unbiased information in very specific fields ,… that and so much more “Project Avalon” is to all of us here. But, it may be endangered, or rather it IS endangered, be it by GDPR, EU art 11 and 13, all kinds of internet censoring or ways to make finding information harder and harder.
Bill, Paul and the Moderators and Administrators certainly do what they can. It is well known that the possibility that in a few years all this information could become unavailable, has a rising probability. This thread is to start looking for solutions how WE all can contribute to preserving what is dear to us, here on PA.
It is something that has been happening more and more over the past year and it is likely to get worse. We are not looking for “mainstream” info normally here, and everything that is not a part of that becomes harder to reach. This is not only limited to PA, it is a general observation.
In the thread “How to stay in touch in case Project Avalon forum goes offline” it was mentioned that as Chicago would “go down” so would this forum (because the server is/was located there).
What can we do in case this really happens?
First of all, it may be necessary to have sufficient back-ups of everything that is on the website, and have it stored in a number of places (at least one on each continent I would think, preferably more than that). Personal information about individual members should be handled with utmost care; but in case that there is a “shut-down” of any sort, maybe these same members would like to be contacted? The question then is, in case email isn’t working anymore, would anyone want to receive a letter by mail (for instance), with further info, in case that is still operational? Is this at all feasible, do we want that or not?
Storing all of the website info off-line, on hard-disks may be possible (not the personal info maybe). I have no idea about the number of terabytes involved, I would think somewhere between 10 and 20? But that is a wild guess. One TB of storage costs about 25 € nowadays. So, cost-wise it should be no problem.
Then there is the matter of keeping the data unaffected by an EMP or anything else. I suppose that a kind of a special case that keeps any and most radiation out should be bought, as well as a small PA-dedicated laptop that also would be kept inside the case).
Something to provide minimal power (solar?) should also be present I think.
And then the forum should be somehow searchable “off-line”. Not sure if and how that would or could work.
For communication between the PA-members that want to do this, some ULF device to communicate would be useful (I have no idea about what and at what cost this would be). Bob wrote about this some time ago.
Hopefully it won’t come to this, but then again, we never can be sure. We ARE living in very strange times indeed! The above are some ideas I came up with and I don’t know whether these are viable or even wanted.
This Thread: How to stay in touch in case Project Avalon forum goes offline
from December 2012 is very useful to read. Paul and Ilie (as well as others) wrote a lot of important information in several posts there.
Any input on this would be welcome.
Bill, Paul and the Moderators and Administrators certainly do what they can. It is well known that the possibility that in a few years all this information could become unavailable, has a rising probability. This thread is to start looking for solutions how WE all can contribute to preserving what is dear to us, here on PA.
It is something that has been happening more and more over the past year and it is likely to get worse. We are not looking for “mainstream” info normally here, and everything that is not a part of that becomes harder to reach. This is not only limited to PA, it is a general observation.
In the thread “How to stay in touch in case Project Avalon forum goes offline” it was mentioned that as Chicago would “go down” so would this forum (because the server is/was located there).
What can we do in case this really happens?
First of all, it may be necessary to have sufficient back-ups of everything that is on the website, and have it stored in a number of places (at least one on each continent I would think, preferably more than that). Personal information about individual members should be handled with utmost care; but in case that there is a “shut-down” of any sort, maybe these same members would like to be contacted? The question then is, in case email isn’t working anymore, would anyone want to receive a letter by mail (for instance), with further info, in case that is still operational? Is this at all feasible, do we want that or not?
Storing all of the website info off-line, on hard-disks may be possible (not the personal info maybe). I have no idea about the number of terabytes involved, I would think somewhere between 10 and 20? But that is a wild guess. One TB of storage costs about 25 € nowadays. So, cost-wise it should be no problem.
Then there is the matter of keeping the data unaffected by an EMP or anything else. I suppose that a kind of a special case that keeps any and most radiation out should be bought, as well as a small PA-dedicated laptop that also would be kept inside the case).
Something to provide minimal power (solar?) should also be present I think.
And then the forum should be somehow searchable “off-line”. Not sure if and how that would or could work.
For communication between the PA-members that want to do this, some ULF device to communicate would be useful (I have no idea about what and at what cost this would be). Bob wrote about this some time ago.
Hopefully it won’t come to this, but then again, we never can be sure. We ARE living in very strange times indeed! The above are some ideas I came up with and I don’t know whether these are viable or even wanted.
This Thread: How to stay in touch in case Project Avalon forum goes offline
from December 2012 is very useful to read. Paul and Ilie (as well as others) wrote a lot of important information in several posts there.
Any input on this would be welcome.