We’ve been given notice by our hosting provider that we need to move off the site. The reason is that we were suddenly faced with a big increase in hosting costs, and it wasn’t tenable. (Where’s big oil when you need them?) So they told us we had to move.
Therefore we are moving back to wordpress.com, where we started back in 2007. We will be picking up where we left off when we moved two years ago and migrating all the content of the last two years back to the original site (which I retained in case of just such an emergency).
So, if WUWT becomes flakey or offline at times over the next few days, don’t worry. We have it all backed up.
Thanks for your understanding and patience. – Anthony
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“deplatformed” So thats what the kids are calling it now!
One of the earliest people I recall who was brutally “de-platformed” was former newspaperman Frank Hilliard, who wrote an honest, frank and up-front blog with the name “Mesopotamia West”. One or two others may remember it, now that I bring specifics to the fore … he is a Canadian bloke, ran for an office or two and took exception to Canadian politics as they have ‘run off the rails’ in the last decade. He also chronicled events and personalities as they were occurring in the Muslim world; this might have led to his ultimate undoing.
Anyway, the SJW crowd (before widely known as such) took umbrage with his writing and opinions (even when backed with facts!) and the rest is history. Remember the saying “First they came for … and I did not speak out … and then they came for me and there was no one left …”? It’s a reality, folks.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Frank+Hilliard+%22Mesopotamia+West%22&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
For ‘youngsters’, just look at the design spec for what is now known as the internet.
The USSR nukes The USA and ‘communications’ work around ‘dead’ Cities and dead communication hubs.
The ‘message’ finds its own way through the chaos.
Something ‘cancel culture’ doesn’t understand is that, despite their ‘nuking’ of hubs … the message always finds a way through. Idiots.
I see the myth that the internet was designed to withstand nuclear attack still lives. It wasn’t. It was designed to allow people to share data without having to mail computer tapes all over the place. There IS a network designed to withstand such an attack but it wasn’t ARPANET.
Uh, no — Arpanet was first conceived as a means to use to decouple computer terminals from dedicated time sharing hosts.
“In his room at the Pentagon, Taylor’s access to time-shared systems led him to a key social observation. He could watch as computers at all three remote facilities came alive with activity, connecting local users. Time-shared computers allowed people to exchange messages and share files. Through the computers, people could learn about each other. Interactive communities formed around the machines.
Taylor also decided that it made no sense to require three teletype machines just to communicate with three incompatible computer systems. It would be much more efficient if the three were merged into one, with a single computer-language protocol that could allow any terminal to communicate with any other terminal. These insights led Taylor to propose and secure funding for ARPANET.”
https://www.britannica.com/topic/ARPANET
Wow! Thanks for the notice. I’ll make a (rather overdue) donation today.
“Hosting costs” forcing you to move. Is this a proxy for the host being afraid of being cancelled?
Perhaps effect of the CCCP (Catastrophic Climate Change Protocol) for suppressing of scientific dissent.
Either that, or the site is generating significantly increasing amounts of traffic. Unfortunately, it may also just be a side effect of the politically biased cancel culture.
co2isnotevil
July 15, 2020 at 9:55 am
It does not matter what the “why” is, what matters is the “what”.
Which ever way weighted, the “what” points out that most probably Anthony is played for a fool, in all this matter.
(“What”, “what” is actually what actually happening,
where WUWT deplatformed, purged, removed from clowd service.)
cheers
Difficult from the little detail given. Maybe he needs to be careful until the move is put in place.
I imagine that this site does draw quite heavily on resources but all hosting companies I’ve seen give you a b/w quota and top up fees if you go over.
A massive increase in fees sounds like a deliberate attack. We’ll have to wait for more info.
I used to host with AIT decades ago, they were pretty fairly priced. Then on year they just slipped a note at the bottom of what looked like a banal end of year greeting to all customers basically announcing hosting fees were double.
They effectively gave you less than 7days to notice to all “resellers”, sneakily hiding at the bottom, hoping most people would ignore their banal end of year blurb.
Luckily I did not have many customers hosted there by then anyway because their support was going down the drain.
Greg
July 16, 2020 at 2:15 pm
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“I imagine that this site does draw quite heavily on resources but all hosting companies I’ve seen give you a b/w quota and top up fees if you go over.”
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My understanding is that in account of the cloud, the increase in resource demand, mostly does not count much as increased costs, not for the host provider at least,
as it is handled and incurred by the Cloud itself and almost all of it is offset by the increased value of the website or the service, whatever that be.
cheers
Good luck with the move, and thank you for all your hard work!
Ditto, Anthony, et al.
Stay safe and healthy, all.
Bob
But we don’t have to say “Bye, and thanks for all the fish”, right?
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish.
Thank You for staying the course
I was wondering when this was going to happen.”The world’s most viewed site on global warming and climate change” certainly won’t go unchallenged in their efforts to cancel everything they don’t agree with. It’s very disturbing what is going on with this cultural Marxism and Cancel Culture. Time to fight back by standing up to this bulling, and not allow our freedom of speech to be squelched. Which is why this election is probably the most important in generations, as the future either goes one way, or the other.
yes , wondering who the trackback “owners” are?
and if others got the pricehike memos too?
huge work shifting it all again but very precient of you to keep wordpress viable
thank you for so many years if effort and info ,
will be patient as the swapover occurs
reminding me of a heade in today aussie news re sparkles markle telling to kids to not listen not debate just make noise and protest to drown out anyone upseting you
sure sounds familiar!
Thanks for your tireless efforts to keep it going for all of these years. You have provided an invaluable public service that all should be grateful for.
Sudden overwhelming increase in costs? Hmmm
More likely they got an offer they couldn’t refuse …… with a bonus from the Open Society Foundation!
Whoa! Wow! What’s the word for this … unexpectedly? Another (subtle?) Cancel Culture Casualty? The host felt ‘pressure’ from somewhere?
You guys all keep me sane in a world gone mad. Donation made. Sorry it has taken so long to appreciate your tireless efforts.
Ditto. Donation sent.
Thanks for your understanding and patience. – Anthony
As though you owe us thanx for ANYTHING. Thank you, Mr. W., for EVERYTHING that you do(!)
(how about a BIG amen to that guys)…
+ big amens
Mega Ditto Amens !
and some money
Very Big Amens!
AMEN
Amen … + overdue donation. Thanks for all you do, Anthony … even though some of it goes over my little brain
AMEN! Thank you Anthony! (and the mods of course)
Yes, a big one.
I know a small businessman who’s a bit of a s**t disturber. He was putting ideas into the heads of the other tenants in the building where they all rented space. When his lease came due, the property manager jacked up his rent by an order of magnitude and he had to move. The property manager couldn’t kick him out but could make darn sure he left anyway.
Whether it was targeted / political, or it’s just how [redacted -AW] treats their customers, it’s good to know that they’re a provider to be avoided.
[Note: I still need to stay onboard a week to complete the move, I don’t want people harassing them during that time, so I redacted it. – Anthony]
Sorry about that!
Anthony, was there a reason for the increase?
+1
Because the could? and/or because they wanted to (as in wanted to do without the revenue WUWT was bring in)?
Have other sites had the same problem?
Thank you so very much Anthony, moderators, and all who make WUWT happen. This site and its contributors may very well have saved the WORLD from the leftist scourge of climate lies. Well done, and we look forward to Goliath finally being slayed. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, and these are mine.
As far as I can tell, these are the people that you might want to talk to:
https://www.webair.com/company/
(scroll down)
You are an essential bulwark against Malthusian mind rot and the nonsense of “climate change.”
I will support you to my dying day.
For those speculating about there being a political motivation for the price increase, please stop. Mr. Watts didn’t indicate that there was, and the speculation is unjustified. It tends to undermine instances where there is evidence that someone wants to suppress those who don’t hold to the climate alarmist’s view.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deplatforming
thank you Damp–I did not know this. Learn something everyday. I thought it was a neutral word.
A “ditto” of Shelly’s post, word for word.
Coming up on 79 years of age, well and truly retired, and there’s still not enough time to keep up with the changes and additions to the English language, quite apart from the hardware that’s “smarter” than I am.
Still, English is spreading some. The Norwegians have a base an Antarctica. Their Web Cam is “Webkamera”. Dark there at this time of year.
“The Norwegians have a base an Antarctica.”
Uh oh, Didn’t they see the movie The Thing??
Jeez there really are people who sleep walk through life, wake up there bud, the war’s been going on for a while now.
I just saw the post from Damp, linking to the definition of Deplatforming. I had no idea it was specifically used in the context of denying a platform for political purposes. I know that happens a lot for conservative views.
As far as I can tell, the term is used by Social Justice Warriors (SJW) to describe what they’re trying to do. They think evil people should not have a platform to spout their hateful messages. Of course, anyone they disagree with, even a little bit, is evil. Anything said by an evil person is hate speech.
If I tell an SJW that the sun rises in the east, that’s hate speech because I’m an evil person who needs to be deplatformed. Why? The best I can figure is that I am adamantly in favor of properly biased transistors and have said so on many occasions.
You may not know it, cBob, but science itself is just a tool of the white male patriarchal hegemony, for example.
So, saying the sun rises in the east could well bring a charge of racism down on your head.
Thanks for the heads up.
This site in invaluable to the world.
+1
Dear Anthony,
Have you thought of opening a SubscribeStar or similar to allow people to contribute to the hosting costs?
Yours,
FD
I suggest using several contribution methods. Since you are a disfavored voice, you should keep options open in case of unexpected banning/deplatforming.
The move apparently means that means all the links we have to very useful older WUWT articles will be lost. Almost all of Willis’ take-downs, for example.
Bu??er! Can they still be saved anywhere or do we all need to do it ourselves?
No
Links should be by URLs based on Anthony’s domain “wattsupwiththat.com”. He retains ownership of the domain and assuming the current structure can be reproduced on the old platform the links should still be good.
But in the general case, links to specific parts of the HTTP hierarchy are not durable unless care is taken to make them so.
The online world has a great deal to learn from the library community, which has been struggling with this issue for centuries.
Has nobody got an ‘HTTP ripper’ program that archives a site by copying the entire site to a local disk while relocating internal links to the new disk whist retaining the external links as such.
I know for certain such software is available on Linux operating system (e.g. https://29a.ch/httpripper/ ). Sure some link may not resolve correctly but is that not usual these days.
Time and money would be needed to archive this entire site.
Teleport Pro will copy a whole website to your harddrive.
https://teleport-pro.en.softonic.com/
I see. Freedom is threatened as in the US as in France by the red-green activists’ networks. Good luck, friends !
We are in the middle of the digital equivalent of the Nazi book burnings.
Indeed.
Whenever the web became the “goto” place for any and every inquiry, I thought the day would eventually come that someone would pull its plug and make it go away. Either that, or they would (like Winston Smith in the book “1984” did for a living) revise everything to make truth disappear.
I reckon that day won’t come until TPTB get tired of tracking everyone who consumes articles that haven’t been tampered with.
I like hard copies and books/magazines/newspapers whenever I can get them. I would have liked to have a library of periodicals of content from WUWT over the years.
Whenever someone urges everybody to “go paperless”, I just see another bite taken out of the economy.
I have an odd hobby, I collect encyclopedias. Have had to get rid of some, no storage space, still have a complete Britannica 1895, another 1910, another 1925, another 1955. Have an assortment of text books going back to 1895 and up to 1965, math, science, history(world and American), primary reading and composition. Also have various and sundry engineering, construction and chemistry trades books/manuals from 1890s-1920s. Yea, knowledge.
“We are in the middle of the digital equivalent of the Nazi book burnings.”
The saner sections of society are beginning to speak out against the radicals.
There aren’t that many street demonstrations anymore, although you wouldn’t know that listening to the Leftwing Media (include Fox in this) and the ones that take place are populated by the most radical leftists in the country.
One thing to glean from this is there are not that many radical leftists in the country. There are enough to cause some trouble. and most of that is because the trouble has been allowed to happen by Democrat politicians. So the radical Left can make some trouble but they can’t overthrow our current way of life.
The only way they can overthrow our way of life is if they manage to put Democrats in the presidency at the ballot box, and the only way that can happen is if the voters believe the lies put out by the Leftwing Media.
It is the lying Leftwing Media that is the existential threat to the Republic, not a handful of violent, radical Leftists/Marxists marching in the streets.
I think Trump is getting ready to crack down hard on these violent, radical Leftists. He’s already put many of them in jail for destroying monuments. He’s going to go around the Democrat politicians that are allowing this violence from the Left to continue.
Funny how fascist the anti-fascists are. That’s a special of kind of cognitive dissonance.
There are 2 kinds of Fascists: Fascists and Anti Fascists
Ennio Flaiano
Which hosting provider deplatforming you Anthony?
What if you decide not to move off?!
It is amazing… is it not!
Please, Anthony, do clarify, which kinda of hosting provider is attempting to deplatforming WUWT?
I do not know about others, but am not sure who is taking you for a fool!
cheers