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[Janus]

Is there anything that DFFD users (primarily modders) can do to ease the transition?  Maybe it would help to refrain from updating anything 24 or 48 hours prior to the move, that way there is no huge rush to grab everything at the last moment.  Only view/download and comments would need to be updated based on the last day's usage.

Does the dffd.wimbli.com domain go dark after the 15th, or can it redirect to the new site?

When the time comes, if need be, I can lock uploads with a note on the page indicating the reason.

The domain name will either point directly to the new server with no change, or more likely it will be made to redirect seamlessly to the new domain (preserving page links).

[Janus]

Just an update, the new server is mostly set up now. There's only a little bit of configuration left to do. It is however looking it's going to take several days to get all of the uploads transferred to the new server. I'm starting with the most recently updated files and having it work back from there.

So, once the switch has been made to use the new server, a lot of older files are going to be unavailable for a few days until the transfer of uploads is complete.

[PeridexisErrant]

The deadline is the 15th. Of course, I do have ~146 GB of files that will need to be uploaded once a new server is set up, and that will probably take a couple of days at least.

Having just over 3 days of logs now, here's the data:
Average Bandwidth per Day    71.44 GB

There haven't been any major pack releases or anything of the sort in the past 3 days, so this is probably a good example of the low end of bandwidth to expect (a bit over 2 TB bandwidth per month). As mentioned before, when the more popular packs are posted and when major new releases of DF come out, the bandwidth will probably be substantially higher.

Just an update, the new server is mostly set up now. There's only a little bit of configuration left to do. It is however looking it's going to take several days to get all of the uploads transferred to the new server. I'm starting with the most recently updated files and having it work back from there.

I just found this topic, and if there's anything I can do let me know - for now I'll continue as usual.

The Starter Pack contributes ~680 * 80MB per day, or a little more than two-thirds (56/76 GB) of all DFFD bandwidth by these numbers.  At ~$10/month donations to me don't cover anything at all, and it's unclear if Dropbox Pro offers 20 or 200 GB/day; if it's the latter I could go to that.  FWIW, I've watched the numbers a couple of times and my big release spikes are less than double the mean rate for the first ~48 hours, and while 40.01 was more popular the download was smaller.

[Thief^]

$10/month is plenty to host something like that, digitalocean.com offers a $10/month plan with 2 TB of bandwidth. Disk space isn't enough for hosting the entire DFFD, but for a small set of high-bandwidth files something like this is perfect.

[PeridexisErrant]

$10/month is plenty to host something like that, digitalocean.com offers a $10/month plan with 2 TB of bandwidth. Disk space isn't enough for hosting the entire DFFD, but for a small set of high-bandwidth files something like this is perfect.

Perfect, that is, if I had the skills to run a website off a server 
Which I don't 

I'll keep it in mind as a backup if all else fails though!

[Janus]

There are still a few thousand files to go being transferred, but I've gotten the old host to extend their deadline to the 19th. The files should be done transferring in the next day or two.

I'll make the switch to the new server once all of the files are transferred, so it should end up being a seamless transition after all.

[Janus]

All right, the transfer is done! The domain name has also been updated from dffd.wimbli.com to dffd.bay12games.com. All old links to dffd.wimbli.com file listings will still work, they'll just be seamlessly redirected to the correct page on the new domain. You should still consider updating old links just in case.
Downloads should also be a lot faster, but we'll see how it goes once there are several people downloading at a time.

EDIT:
Needless to say, if you run into any problems, let me know.

[Button]

Incidentally, dffd.wimbli.com is now considered by my work's blocking software as an "Adult" site. dffd.bay12games.com works fine, though.

Yes, the wimbli address was accessible on my work computer before.

(Shut up, my personal computer is a desktop, so when I want to sit in front of a fire and sip hot cocoa and play Dwarf Fortress I have to do it on my work computer.)

[Janus]

Incidentally, dffd.wimbli.com is now considered by my work's blocking software as an "Adult" site. dffd.bay12games.com works fine, though.

Yes, the wimbli address was accessible on my work computer before.

(Shut up, my personal computer is a desktop, so when I want to sit in front of a fire and sip hot cocoa and play Dwarf Fortress I have to do it on my work computer.)

That's definitely odd. The only thing any dffd.wimbli.com link will respond with is an "HTTP 301 Moved Permanently" redirect leading to the appropriate page on the new dffd.bay12games.com domain. I admit, that might be pretty hardcore to some people, but still...

[Dirst]

Incidentally, dffd.wimbli.com is now considered by my work's blocking software as an "Adult" site. dffd.bay12games.com works fine, though.

Yes, the wimbli address was accessible on my work computer before.

(Shut up, my personal computer is a desktop, so when I want to sit in front of a fire and sip hot cocoa and play Dwarf Fortress I have to do it on my work computer.)

That's definitely odd. The only thing any dffd.wimbli.com link will respond with is an "HTTP 301 Moved Permanently" redirect leading to the appropriate page on the new dffd.bay12games.com domain. I admit, that might be pretty hardcore to some people, but still...

It's because Button was modding in all the naughty bits on plants

Someone up-thread complained that there was objectionable content buried on dffd.wimbli.com, and a spider could have found that.  Corporate blocking software doesn't really suffer any consequences for false positives.  Nice to know the spider found the problem just in time for the whole site to move somewhere else.

[Meph]

I had the bay12 forums blocked as "adult" now and then, when using internet at some places.

[Button]

It's because Button was modding in all the naughty bits on plants

  Shhh, don't let them know! I wouldn't be able to bear the stigma!

[DeDeRon]

i'd really like to see at least the main stuff (df, dfhack, dt, starter packs) to be available as torrents. now that things have settled this would make even more sense. can we establish some sort of "torrent culture" to lower the traffic for the dffd server?

[lethosor]

DFHack isn't hosted on DFFD any more: https://github.com/dfhack/dfhack/releases/

[Dirst]

DFHack isn't hosted on DFFD any more: https://github.com/dfhack/dfhack/releases/

It is still embedded in the starter packs, though.  The top-three downloads on DFFD are starter packs, followed by Masterwork which is itself kind of a specialized starter pack.  They're also the largest general-interest files.

So, it makes sense to try to offload some of that downloading from Bay12.  Whether that's with mirrors or torrents or an Akamai-style content delivery system, it's a conversation worth having.