Openkeyval.org no longer working ?

[9876691]

Seems that openkeyval.org has stopped allowing me to commit data since the beginning of the year.

The following example works

curl -d "data=California" http://api.openkeyval.org/location

The following doesn't

curl -d "data=California" http://api.openkeyval.org/location-345345345

Trying to store data to a key that does not exist yet, gives the following error.

{"error":"save_failed","documentation_url":"http:\/\/openkeyval.org\/" 

[kolobus]

Looks like service is going to it's sunset.

[dustball]

The hard drive is probably full. The service could continue perhaps if someone wanted to take over hosting it?

[kolobus]

What's the current drive size and network usage?

[dustball]

Disk size is 11GB. Network unknown, probably little.

Mihail: want me to give you root on the server and see if you can fix it?

There is plenty of space on the drive, I tried rebooting, dunno what is wrong. Will require some debugging perhaps.

-B

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:21 AM, Mihail Fedorov notifications@github.comwrote:

What's the current drive size and network usage?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/shinypb/openkeyval/issues/35#issuecomment-32598120 .

[kolobus]

Ok, I can take a look.

[dustball]

OK - contact me directly at brian.klug@gmail.com and I'll coordinate.

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Mihail Fedorov notifications@github.comwrote:

Ok, I can take a look.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/shinypb/openkeyval/issues/35#issuecomment-33103120 .

[amrav]

Was there a fix to this? This seems like a really cool service, it'd be a pity to see it go away.

[davidedc]

Hi - just FYI I've resurrected the jsonp-db project by Adam Ribaudo and Paul Irish here: https://github.com/davidedc/jsonp-db-redux . It's not quite the same as openkeyval, but it's a way to have your own minimal jsonp key/value database using Google App Engine. In case it helps.

[entonio]

Hi - thanks for the alternative, David. But I'd still like it if the Openkeyval folks got back... Please don't discontinue this great service!

[dustball]

Hi - the service is indeed discontinued. You could reboot it if you wanted, setup your own server and I can give you the domain!

-B

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:31 AM, entonio notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi - thanks for the alternative, David. But I'd still like it if the Openkeyval folks got back... Please don't discontinue this great service!

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/shinypb/openkeyval/issues/35#issuecomment-38677641 .

[kolobus]

And I can set up virtual/dedicated server or make space on my own to one who will have time to rewrite and restore service.

[dustball]

(Well- all you need to do is deploy the code from guthub and setup apache. It should take < 10 mins.)

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Mihail Fedorov notifications@github.comwrote:

And I can set up virtual/dedicated server or make space on my own to one who will have time to rewrite and restore service.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/shinypb/openkeyval/issues/35#issuecomment-38717047 .

[kolobus]

I can do this if someone needs service in form it worked before. Temporaily. But my opinion - it should be rewritten for normal db usage before restoration. That's why I did not simply redeployed it.

[kolobus]

I can advice even more easy solution - we can simple clean up all old data and it will work next year or so. Agree?

[pearmaster]

The problem with completely free services like openkeyval is that eventually the sponsor of the service decides not to support it and you are left with a bunch of broken apps that used it.

Ideally we could figure out a way to have openkeyval support itself through advertising, premium/paid functionality, corporate sponsorship, something else.

[vi]

Maybe we need distributed DHT-based openkeyval with multiple entry points? Can some existing global DHT thing be re-tooled as an openkeyval?

[ghost]

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