VF4fx FTP server is temporarily down

The HDD on my FTP server crashed hard, and I tried to reformat, but it's incredibly slow, so I'm guessing the drive mechanism is shot to hell after serving all the VF4 movie clips since last August. I just placed an order for a new HDD which should come in early next week, so the server will be down till then.

 

damn that sucks. i'm getting cable today too. /versus/images/icons/frown.gif

 

Even before the HDD crash i couldn't download stuff, are those files still there?

-----(RESPEK)-----

 

I hope they are

 

Got my new HDD today. Should be able to install O/S and FTP server software and remote login software by tomorrow. Movies should still be there (I hope), otherwise it might take an extra day for me to bring my FTP server back home and synchronize all 7GB of VF4 files with my home PC.

The reason why you might be unable to download files from VF4fx in the past is because I set my FTP server to allow a maximum of 7 concurrent anonymous (i.e. web-based) users, and the server is always very busy. Why 7? Because I can only allot 384kbps of upstream bandwidth to the server at my work location (any more and it would detract from the bandwidth required for work-related network operations), and if you allow unlimited anonymous logins, then each person could only download at incredibly slow rates, so I'd sooner have 7 clients downloading at reasonable speeds.

(Nonetheless, even with the bandwidth limitation, I think I've served ½ Terabytes worth of files since last August... probably why my old HDD crashed in the end).

My recommendation is to use an FTP client like WSFTP or CuteFTP to retry login every 30seconds to 63.64.84.184 (rather than using the web interface), and once you're logged in, go ahead and leech whatever files you want from the server.