The VG Resource

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING, PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE POST. IMPORTANT INFORMATION IS IN THE ENTIRE THING! This will be copied and pasted on several other forums, as an urgent help message. This is not an advertisment. Every forum listed here has a reason for why this site needs to be back up. Some forums have bigger reasons than others.

There are way too many people to count, who have lost items due to the crash of Majhost. So we must DO SOMETHING!

I have a huge masterplan that will involve your help, people. I want to get Majhost up so we can rescue everything from everyones Majhost folder. I have a list of users who's items I will be putting in a huge zip folder. But to get Majhost up, we need to find the founder. Luckily... 

His Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevinmloch
His Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kevinmloch
His Email: kevinmloch@gmail.com

That is the founder. His name is Kevin Loch. Now, he is active on Twitter, Facebook and I'm pretty sure he still uses that E-mail. So what are we going to do? We are going to message him requests to re-open Majhost for a week or 2 so that we can get all the files from Majhost and recover everything we can. This includes everyones lost work, comics, important pictures and old sprites. I'm making a long list of people's majhost accounts that I'll be going through, especially older users that aren't around anymore.

TO SPRITEWARS USERS: We know this pain, and we know it hard. We've lost what, around 50,000+ files? If we can do this, I will be getting several old users sprites, and making a massive zip folder.
TO ALOHA USERS: I will re-upload my old artworks to the forums for you, and I think Danko could get his country flags and other icons back from his Majhost folder.
TO PLAZMABURST 2 USERS: I will be re-uploading my concepts for ideas for the game...and I know some of you used to use this website to host your concepts as well.
TO BUILDANDSHOOT USERS: I will reupload the weapon previews, and the sights for AoS. The old sights and Mod Challenge previews were hosted there, as well as a few sights for the weapons. TO VG-RESOURCE USERS: I know you guys have lost some work as well. I'm not that active there, but we need your help. I know some of you were impacted more than others, and I know some of you don't care. But this is to help everyone reclaim access to lost sprites that we've not had access to in 8-9 months now.
TO DOUBTERS AND CRITICS: I know it's a long shot but WE NEED TO TRY.
TO THOSE WHO PROBABLY WANT TO BAN ME FOR ADVERTISING: This is not an advertisement to any website. This is me trying to get help for my friends, fellow forum members and me. I can guarantee you that at least a few members have been impacted by this. It's not even about me. It's about the hundreds to thousands of users who were impacted. I want to help them all. Some of us check that website, every day. Hoping, praying that it's back online. Praying that we get another chance to get our old work and files.

***Here is the master plan***

We will all send emails, fb messages, or tweets. I'm reaching out on several forums to help us with this, including Spritewars, VG-Resource, Aloha.pk, Plazmaburst 2 and Build and Shoot. We need to let this guy know that we were never informed that our files would be taken off the internet. Don't do it just for me, or yourself. Do it for the users you don't know, the users who will be helped by this. You're helping people get their much loved files back (on spritewars alone, you'd be helping us get over (rough estimates) 50,000 files that went missing). Here's an example of what a FB message/tweet/email should look like. And don't copy and paste directly. Make your own, but the start and end are important to put down. This way we let him know that multiple communities are affected. If multiple options apply, list them. If I was you, I'd probably do all 3 to get his attention as much as possible.

"Dear Mr. Loch,

Majhost has been down for an extended time, and [me/friends/community members] have lost valuable files. These files were important to [me/friends/community members] and we had absolutely no warning that this site would be going down. It's not right that [me/friends/community members] have to lose our files. If it's a money issue, [I/we] understand, but we only need this website up for 1-2 weeks to get all of our files back.

Thanks for your time, 
[username], part of [forum]" 

Send messages to his FB account, twitter and email. I will be bumping this post as much as (reasonably) possible to raise attention.

Thanks,
Monstarules.

SPECIAL MESSAGE TO VG-RESOURCE USERS
Could you help another sprite forum out by helping with this? I know some of you may have lost work as well from this unfortunate event.

yeah lets do this guys!!!! lead the witchhunt on the founder of a filehosting site and bug him to get our files back!!!!!!!

it's not that simple. you don't just flip a switch and shizzam! your files are back! kablammo!! if only big data storage was gumdrops and lollipops with zero expenses!!!

i'm pretty sure recovering that type of data costs money, time, and the ambition to do so, all which I doubt the owner of majhost has. he's probably going through some tough times, which is why the server isn't going back up as quickly as you'd like it to (probably a part somewhere is blown and that item requires costly repairs)
first off, the server's crashed. kablooie. usually, the machine is inoperable. it's fucked. it's not gonna work if he tries to boot it back up.
even if he does, it's gonna take a good 24 to 48 hours to get it up and running, and then he needs to run tests on the server to ensure that the server won't go tits-up a second time.

On top of that, it's an image host, so it's got a ton of files he'll need to recover, and given the server CRASHED some files may be CORRUPTED and thus IRRECOVERABLE. Not everyone will have the same luck as you might with recovering all their items.

If I were you, I'd message him to see what exactly he needs to get the server running again, and then see if you can assist him in raising the money to do so. If you do and everything turns out well, not only will you be the Hero which started The Movement, but Majhost will be up and running once again. ;P

tl;dr there is no easy way to fix this. in the future, invest in alternative storage in case You Lose Your Shit so you can upload it to another server as need be whenever, wherever

I highly doubt it crashed. He tried shutting Brickshelf down once. People thought it crashed. However, him just wanting to shut it down was the true reason behind it. As for my files, I have backups. And do you honestly think I thought this would happen overnight? HAHAHAHAHA that's funny. I understand how servers work. I'm not posting this so that this happens overnight. I'm more interested in seeing this happen sometime in the near future.

Actually, IIRC one (1) user used Majhost and constantly asked us why it kept going down. Maybe you can find him on Deviantart and he'll help you out.

(08-15-2015, 08:24 AM)monstarules Wrote: [ -> ]I highly doubt it crashed. He tried shutting Brickshelf down once. People thought it crashed. However, him just wanting to shut it down was the true reason behind it.

well, y'see, it isn't a bad assumption on my part when I don't really care if majhost is up, down, or doing donuts in your yard, but when you say

(08-14-2015, 10:10 PM)monstarules Wrote: [ -> ]There are way too many people to count, who have lost items due to the crash of Majhost. So we must DO SOMETHING!

i'm obviously gonna reply like it crashed

(08-15-2015, 08:24 AM)monstarules Wrote: [ -> ]And do you honestly think I thought this would happen overnight? HAHAHAHAHA that's funny. I understand how servers work. I'm not posting this so that this happens overnight. I'm more interested in seeing this happen sometime in the near future.

given your rallying cry and amibition to create a personal army consisting of multiple forums, it sure sounded that way, lol
like okay, sure he wasn't going to read an email 3 seconds after you sent it and say WOW!!! GUESS I SHOULD TURN THE SERVERS BACK ON!! =) but c'mon, read your post up there one more time. is it really that farfetched of me to assume that was your intention lol

in true internet lolcow fashion tho, if he legitimately took the servers down without notice to his clientele and never intends on bringing it back up, i'm pretty sure a story like that would hold up decently in a court of law if y'know what im sayin

unless this is just a bunch of conjecture because majhost isn't coming back up quickly enough

(ps. why not upload your backups to Dropbox or something lol?)

(08-15-2015, 10:23 AM)Kosheh Wrote: [ -> ]Actually, IIRC one (1) user used Majhost and constantly asked us why it kept going down. Maybe you can find him on Deviantart and he'll help you out.

(08-15-2015, 08:24 AM)monstarules Wrote: [ -> ]I highly doubt it crashed. He tried shutting Brickshelf down once. People thought it crashed. However, him just wanting to shut it down was the true reason behind it.

well, y'see, it isn't a bad assumption on my part when I don't really care if majhost is up, down, or doing donuts in your yard, but when you say

(08-14-2015, 10:10 PM)monstarules Wrote: [ -> ]There are way too many people to count, who have lost items due to the crash of Majhost. So we must DO SOMETHING!

i'm obviously gonna reply like it crashed

(08-15-2015, 08:24 AM)monstarules Wrote: [ -> ]And do you honestly think I thought this would happen overnight? HAHAHAHAHA that's funny. I understand how servers work. I'm not posting this so that this happens overnight. I'm more interested in seeing this happen sometime in the near future.

given your rallying cry and amibition to create a personal army consisting of multiple forums, it sure sounded that way, lol
like okay, sure he wasn't going to read an email 3 seconds after you sent it and say WOW!!! GUESS I SHOULD TURN THE SERVERS BACK ON!! =) but c'mon, read your post up there one more time. is it really that farfetched of me to assume that was your intention lol

in true internet lolcow fashion tho, if he legitimately took the servers down without notice to his clientele and never intends on bringing it back up, i'm pretty sure a story like that would hold up decently in a court of law if y'know what im sayin

unless this is just a bunch of conjecture because majhost isn't coming back up quickly enough

(ps. why not upload your backups to Dropbox or something lol?)

No, Majhost is just offline. If it was a server, Brickshelf would be down too. Mr. Loch ran them both from the same server, or that's what I've found through my research on this. And we quickly did our best to upload things to dropbox, so we're backing up what we have. It's what we're missing that we really want.

Here's a petition to at least get answers to what happened: https://www.change.org/p/kevin-loch-plea...om-is-down

Unless you were paying this guy to hold your files and had some kind of contract or something that said he was required to let you back your stuff up, he's free to do whatever he wants with his server (and therefore his site) whether you put your files on it or not. This thread is pretty unnecessary.

If your files are that important, keep local backups and use multiple storage services for redundancy in the future.