SecurityOverride

Okay, so has anyone been able to get in touch with the SO admins? I'd love to bring some challenges back, if possible (most of them don't rely on a database - luckily).

Only thing is .. I don't really want to host such content on my VPS I think it's configured quite alright, but I'm not really up for any unpaid penetration testing ;)

If the vox populi would decide to do such a thing (to host someone else's challenges without their consent) how should it be done? I would just go for a generic front-end framework as opposed to restoring the site in all it's glory (content is one thing, but I certainly wouldn't like to see a site I built completely cloned and ran by someone else)

In theory you can host it on one of our boxes, but i think the admins might be upset
Maybe set it up on bagy.users.warchall.net?

it would be a temp solution till the admins come back so far they seem to be gone lol i mean its been a loooong time and seems they havent show up , yet last time i checked they still had the domain , so no idea if they are planning on coming back

Doing this as a temporary solution is acceptable, I think ... let's hope the admins will be reasonable about this.

If WeChall would be so kind as to provide hosting, that would be amazing. However ...

The site is quite large, would it be possible to transfer the archive directly? I don't think I can download 3.5GB and upload it in any reasonable amount of time.

but the main files are not that heavy , i mean 1.8gb are from that folder "videos" which if we just gona provide a temporary solution to the chall hosting is not needed . im a little bit busy right now but perhaps by tomorrow or the weekend i can get an upload of the chall files and perhaps try to set it up a testing site by myself. but yeah if wechall could provide the hosting that would be amazing , yet im gona try to look for a cheap hosting i can afford if needed

Oh. I didn't realize you also downloaded the public_html.zip archive. Well, data redundancy is a good thing

My semester is about to begin and I'll be focusing on my thesis a lot now, so I probably won't be much help in this matter.

I recall that some of Over The Wire's wargames were inherited from other sites; maybe getting in contact with them might have some value.

Also, could one of you get a breakdown of what's in that archive so we can get a feel for what it would take to run it?

No risk no fun!

I have sent a PM with instructions to b1nary, how to connect.

Happy Challenging
gizmore

Semi-yearly reminder about this site ... has there been any progress towards restoring the site? I still have the 3.5G /public_html directory archive (no database dump I'm afraid).

sorry i coudlnt do it in the time ... and well i actually forgot about it lol but i still have the files. i think gizmore is till willing to share a hosting for it (?) , if u want we can work toguether , is just that i dont have too much time to work full on it and i dont have too much experience depolying and developing websites :S