Ok, I’m jealous. 10m down. Looks like I’ll have excavate a sub-bunker beneath the 8BitBunker.
I’ll check out your site later. //m On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 9:23 am, Carlo Pisani via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > I guess I might as well ask, since I've been wondering: What does the > name > > "downthebunker" mean? > > Is it a reference to something? I'm not even sure how a bunker could be > gone "down" > > the computer room is located 10 meters underground in a room which > looks like a mini bunker. But it's not relevant, it's just a name for > a website. > > > And why the .xyz TLD? I don't know much about it > > but it always looks really sketchy to me. > > When you put a server to the internet you have an IP and you want to > be reached by an URL you have to pay someone for the service. We found > a cheap service offering a domain, and the "xyz," is what they offered > for the lowest price possible (10 euro/year) since dot com and dot org > cost more money (50-100 or more). > > We already pay for the electricity and we are not hosting any > advertising service, thus .. a cheap domain is what we consider "good" > for us. > > What is really worrying is the number of spammers attacking the > server(1) and the fact that people are not seriously using a resource, > sometimes for the reason that we are obliged to declare the GPDR > agreement, or for the reason, we are not offering HTTPS. > > Some of these guys are on facebook where they claim the platform is > even more difficult to be used for the purpose of discussing things > rather than ... watching a gallery of pics > > And some of them still want a bazaar, sort of (person-to-person) way > to sell/buy/trade retro computer stuff, but then they only go to the > eBay, complaining that it's too expensive for both the seller and the > buyer (due to the money you have to give to eBay, I guess). > > That's the time it was, funny and weird at the same time. > > (1) this caused a few services to be dropped, e.g. we needed to drop > the MessageWall because it was bombarded by spam and trolling. > MessageWall was implemented in PHP by us and it was not so robust, > therefore we are now limiting the usage and offering a chat channel on > Discord which is more robust and managed by others. > -- *Blog: RetroRetrospective – Fun today with yesterday's gear…….. <http://www.jongleur.co.uk/blogs/>* *Podcast*: *Retro Computing Roundtable <http://rcrpodcast.com/>* (Co-Host)
