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Hosting of www.stm32duino.com could no be sustained, because traffic and CPU usage breached the AUP on my hosting.

I am unable to continue hosting the forum, and GDPR and other worldwide privacy laws make it impossible for me to give the forum including the data to ST or anyone else.
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## Summary:
This repo contains the "Hardware" files to support STM32 based boards on Arduino version 1.8.x (some older versions may also work) including [LeafLabs Maple, and Maple mini](http://www.leaflabs.com/about-maple/), and other generic STM32F103 boards.

***PRIMARY SUPPORT FORUM: http://www.stm32duino.com/***

***We are also on Gitter https://gitter.im/stm32duino/Lobby/***
[![Gitter](https://badges.gitter.im/Join%20Chat.svg)](https://gitter.im/stm32duino/Lobby?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge)
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@mrguen mrguen commented on a3a5686 Jul 28, 2019

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It is a pitty since there is hardly any other reference on the web. So basically it is impossible to developp for STM32 in Arduino IDE without this site.

I have been using many hosting companies in the past and was never satisfied. The one I use now is perfect: fastcomet.com If it can help. Unfortunately they don't host in Australia. (They can in Singapore)

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I have been trying to give ST the domain, free of charge since April.

But that's all I'm able to say on this matter for legal reasons.

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@pinchies pinchies commented on a3a5686 Aug 10, 2019 •
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I understand the privacy concerns around this issue. Is there no possibility to re-online it temporarily (e.g. I would be happy to pay you for one month of OVH / dreamhost VPS?) so that I can scrape the publicly accessible content and archive / rehost it properly? It's truly an immense amount of knowledge that looks to have been lost, I only found out about it too late, after the registrations were closed.

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@petus petus commented on a3a5686 Aug 13, 2019

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Hi Roger,
I have a facebook group about stm32duino and also I own stm32duino.eu.
I would like to ask you, if you can share your wikipages. I can share it on my domain and hosting.
Also, the forum can be uploaded on my hosting in read-only mode (because GDPR and others).
if it is interesting please, let me know on chiptron(at)chipned.cz

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Wow, completely missed this, and it's terrible news! The forums contained a huge wealth of information not available anywhere else. If hosting of the read-only forum is a traffic and CPU concern, that really shows there is significant ongoing demand for this information. It should continue to be available.

I know hosting a forum is a maintenance nightmare, and I do not volunteer to step in. I also know that any kind of solution will probably require you to put in a significant bit of work (perhaps in the form of wiping PM tables, location information, and e-mail addresses). Some first offers have been made in this thread. If there is anything else any of us can do to help, please let us know.

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One more thought: AFAIU, there were no legal concerns about hosting the read-only forum itself. So how about the following as a quick-and-dirty approach:

  1. Create a static HTML mirror of the publicly accessible forum. Here's a quick cheat sheet for that
  2. Zip this up, and make it available for download. This is exactly the same information that has been publicly accessible all along, so there should be no concern with that.
  3. Interested parties can use this to create a static read-only copy at their own legal risk.

BTW. Archive.org has essentially the same information, but is not very convenient to browse.

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@tfry-git : stm32duino/Arduino_Core_STM32#577 (comment)

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Roger this sucks! Sorry to be blunt but the forum has answered a lot of questions over the years and is/was an invaluable resource. Say goodbye to the internet as we know it. Thanks for the forum efforts over the years.

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