Parodius Networking

The owner of Parodius has made the decision to stop providing free hosting services for nonprofit web sites about classic video gaming. What follows is a brief analysis of the content of the community.
==Assessment==
A preliminary assessment of the Parodius Network details what appears to various shared sites hosted under subdomains of parodius.com:
Site Section 	Archiving Notes 	Archiving Status
blargg gme_java	moved to 	
chojin 	Closed as of 2012-08-21 	
blargg 	moved to slack.net/~ant/old 	no index
demiforce 	access forbidden 	
donut 	requires authorization 	
dowd 	Closed as of 2012-08-29 	
ffxiquest 	Closed as of 2012-08-14 	
gaijin 	Closed as of 2012-08-09 	
haven 	Closed as of 2012-08-14 	
hd 	Closed as of 2012-08-09 	
jdc 	redirects to jdc.koitsu.org 	
mv 	Closed as of 2012-08-29 	
nesdev 	moved to nesdev.com 	covered by Tepples
ps2pc 	Closed as of 2012-08-14 	
pt 	Closed as of 2012-08-09 	already has plans for migration
sdlmame 	moved to sdlmame.lngn.net 	
sl1me 	moved to parodius.suraimu.org 	
soulstream 	Closed as of 2012-08-21 	
spliceworld 	Closed as of 2012-08-21 	
transcorp 	moved to transcorp.romhacking.net	
vice 	closed in 2008 	
zatos 	Closed as of 2012-08-14 	
and a few dedicated environments for the larger community sites:
Site Section 	Archiving Notes 	Archiving Status
http://foxhack.net 	already moved 	already has plans for migration
http://joyelectric.com	already moved 	already has plans for migration
http://kinox.org 	Closed 2012-08-12 	"I will see what I do with it sooner or later."
http://nesdev.com 	already moved 	covered by Tepples
http://nesworld.com 	already moved 	already has plans for migration
http://rocknes.net 	moved to rocknes.web.fc2.com	
There are also some personal sites:
Site Section 	Archiving Notes 	Archiving Status
bpoint 	Closed in 2010 	
Chris Hickman	Closed as of 2012-08-10	
memblers 	Closed as of 2012-08-14 	
roni 	Moved to lngn.net 	
Some of the sites appear more or less inactive, while others have continuous and sustained involvement. As per the discussion page, some of these communities already have comprehensive plans in the works for migrations.
==Migrations and Scraping==
This community is not in any danger of sudden, irreversible disappearance. The operator has given ample time and advice for migrations. He has also provided detailed information about how long URL and email redirects will be in place to minimize link rot and lost mail, and given a wonderfully detailed FAQ of all the types of questions users would be bound to have. He even makes recommendations for other hosts that I know --from having been a former employee of one of them-- are strong and solid recommendations. There is even an offer for the operator to back up a user's content and mail it to them --free of charge-- should the user's bandwidth not be sufficient to back up all of the data. All of this is wonderful to see. It is a breath of fresh air and a wonderful example that we all wish the big players --Yahoo, etc-- would strive to. 
If any member of the ArchiveTeam is currently scraping content, it is advised to cease for the moment, seeing as much of the community already has plans in place to migrate and isn't going anywhere any time soon. And of course, any content already scraped is not to be publicly mirrored or otherwise available at this point. --Aggroskater 21:35, 27 April 2012 (EDT)
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