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Mac Hut is back

· Software · 117 posts · Feb 18, 2009 — Mar 12, 2025 View original thread ↗

#31 Thu, 9 Apr 2009 - 23:36

wackymacs, is your server located in a residential area? I can't seem to download from it any faster than 10 to 20 kilobytes per second. The mirror is no better; it started at roughly 35 kbps and then dropped to 7 kbps.

It's nice that people run their own servers from home, but the connection speed leaves much to be desired. :-/

#32 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 - 17:35

The servers are purposely throttled, as these are run on home connections.

#33 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 - 17:37

Well, that confirms what I had suspected. :-/

#34 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 - 19:44

I run the mirror for machut. It's at home and uses 6mbit download and 40kB upload. It's used for other stuff too, so you can get pretty low speeds.

However, a slow download is better than none at all. BTW, if you need faster access because you want to set up a mirror, i can make that happen. I hang around in #68kmla and #machut on Freenode.

#35 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 - 19:56

wackymacs, is your server located in a residential area? I can't seem to download from it any faster than 10 to 20 kilobytes per second. The mirror is no better; it started at roughly 35 kbps and then dropped to 7 kbps.
It's nice that people run their own servers from home, but the connection speed leaves much to be desired. :-/

Mac Hut seems pretty speedy to me... I can get 3.5, even 4kbps download speeds! But i guess its only because i'm on dialup...

#36 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 - 23:38

Just to let everyone know, the server is back up and its now hosted on OS X instead of Vista.

#37 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 - 23:40

Just to let everyone know, the server is back up and its now hosted on OS X instead of Vista.

It was hosted on Vista?! You've got a lot of nerve. >

#38 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 - 00:12

er... i get:

Safari can’t open the page.

Safari can’t open the page “http://www.valleyofthelights.com/jcoventry/machut” because the server where this page is located isn’t responding.

#39 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 - 01:56

From what I can gather, the server's up, but there's nothing on it.

*crosses his fingers that Mac Hut comes back online sometime within my last 48 hours of access to high speed intarwebs*

#40 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 - 08:04

The correct address is http://machut.valleyofthelights.com/ - works fine.

#41 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 - 16:31

The correct address is http://machut.valleyofthelights.com/ - works fine.

Doesn't work for me.

#42 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 - 18:22

Network Timeout

The server at machut.valleyofthelights.com is taking too long to respond.

The requested site did not respond to a connection request and the browser has stopped waiting for a reply.

* Could the server be experiencing high demand or a temporary outage? Try again later.

* Are you unable to browse other sites? Check the computer's network connection.

* Is your computer or network protected by a firewall or proxy? Incorrect settings can interfere with Web browsing.

* Still having trouble? Consult your network administrator or Internet provider for assistance.

#43 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 - 18:27

And a proxy gives me:

couldn't connect to host

So... try it from within a proxy, wackymacs!

#44 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 - 21:22

Ugh, bad timing. It was down for a while today because of all the storms over where the host is. It is working fine now.

#45 Sun, 9 Oct 2011 - 14:14

Hi ladies!

Turns out you have to pay DynDNS.org to use subdomains these days. Wich is why the mirror can't be accessed any more:

http://machut.uberhost.dyndns.org/

Anyways, you can access the Machut mirror here (in fact, you could all the time :lol: ):

http://uberhost.dyndns.org/machut/

If you use wget or something like that make sure you

have 3383 mb of free space
don't use excessive bandwidth, the host is at my flat and connected using a tiny cable with tiny bandwidth.
don't mirror parent directorys, because it would download petabytes of stuff (straight from /dev/urandom and /dev/zero) you have no interest in.
don't forget to use the -c switch, wget will then see that you have some files and check my files if they are newer, then it continues where it was stopped, saving time and bandwidth for you an me.
limit your bandwith, so other can get a few bytes for themselfs and i can still surf the web.

I would suggest this commandline:

Code:

wget -c -m -np --limit-bandwidth=10k http://uberhost.dyndns.org/machut/

If you use another download manager make sure it mimics those settings. Some programs are really greedy, some even start 5 or 10 downloads at the same time, and i would have to blacklist your ip, your provider or even remove the mirror.

So, be gentle with my little uberhost.

#46 Sun, 9 Oct 2011 - 15:45

I would suggest this commandline:

You also need to add -e robots=off

#47 Sun, 9 Oct 2011 - 16:28

Indeed, sorry about that.

#48 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 - 17:28

Code:

--limit-bandwidth=10k

On OS X it's "--limit-rate"

Is there any sort of Members-only area here? I may be able to mirror the Mac Hut pages on a small scale from my server. I just don't want it showing up on every search engine and killing my transfer limits.

#49 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 - 20:35

Members only? No such thing at MacHut

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MacHut is sleeping (unfriendly voices say dead) since 2009. Get a few files, make a mirror for personal use or to share with the community, i don't mind. I'm quite sure joshc doesn't either.