Muerrisch Posted 7 February , 2008 Share Posted 7 February , 2008 This splendid source of info. appears moribund, or is it me, please? No graphics on front page, and cannot navigate and have tried outflanking it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmac Posted 7 February , 2008 Share Posted 7 February , 2008 This splendid source of info. appears moribund, or is it me, please? No graphics on front page, and cannot navigate and have tried outflanking it! Same here. Searches giving regiments.org pages all come up 'page not found'. Perhaps the money ran out to keep it going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnorthall Posted 7 February , 2008 Share Posted 7 February , 2008 Site was down completely on Tuesday night - can't get past home page either now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HERITAGE PLUS Posted 7 February , 2008 Share Posted 7 February , 2008 Grumpy PAL Wienand Drenth is connected with regiment.org perhaos a PM may help. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 7 February , 2008 Author Share Posted 7 February , 2008 thank you Heritage: I have done so. Will report back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 7 February , 2008 Share Posted 7 February , 2008 Now says "Sorry, this site is temporarily unavailable. Please check back later". Big maintenance thing going on? New site launch? Or died? I sincerely hope not the latter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 7 February , 2008 Author Share Posted 7 February , 2008 Chris thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wienand Drenth Posted 7 February , 2008 Share Posted 7 February , 2008 Dear all, I just saw Grumpy's pm, and thought it fitting to post a message to the forum. First let me thank you for contacting me, and the trust put into me. I am not regularly visiting the forum lately, but I am still having a great interest in the British Army. I was/am indeed connected to the regiments.org project, and did a lot of work together with mr Mills, as you may all know. Since the start of the website mr Mills told me about the troubles he had with the ISP, which may have caused the current problem. I know he had to deal with some serious setbacks, and as such I didn't have any contact with him for quite some time unfortunately. This also caused the lack of updates on regiments.org, but as it was still online it was a valuable source. As this may have caused lack of time to pay attention to the site, resulting in the current situation. As for the future of regiments.org, I do not know what that will be. I am sorry I cannot give any more information about the current status of the website, apart from what I have written above. I hope that mr Mills is online soon, and that he is doing well. All best wishes, Wienand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 7 February , 2008 Share Posted 7 February , 2008 Does not sound encouraging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted 7 February , 2008 Share Posted 7 February , 2008 I hope that mr Mills is online soon That's not this Mr Mills, by the way Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinglma Posted 8 February , 2008 Share Posted 8 February , 2008 You may be able to access an archived version via 'the wayback machine'. See this link. It worked for me yesterday. I do hope the website is back soon - it would be a bit of a disaster if it was not available. Mike S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hartley Posted 8 February , 2008 Share Posted 8 February , 2008 Perhaps another reminder of the fragility of internet based information. In the blink of an eye , it was gone............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 8 February , 2008 Author Share Posted 8 February , 2008 You may be able to access an archived version via 'the wayback machine'. See this link. It worked for me yesterday. I do hope the website is back soon - it would be a bit of a disaster if it was not available. It works it works! Oh Joy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard_Lewis Posted 8 February , 2008 Share Posted 8 February , 2008 You're all wearing ties are you? Door rules on dress and all that stuff... Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 9 February , 2008 Author Share Posted 9 February , 2008 dressing gown, slippers and aftershave: only 1025 AM, have a heart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnorthall Posted 20 February , 2008 Share Posted 20 February , 2008 Does anyone have any news about regiments.org? I'm kinda missing it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughton Posted 16 March , 2008 Share Posted 16 March , 2008 I am missing it as well, one of my primary research tools - updated or not. I did some hunting down the ISP route and I found where the site is located so I will try to contact them and see what I get. REGIMENTS.ORG T.F. Mills 2559 S. Humboldt St. Denver Colorado USA 80210 Phone 1-303-72228 (that is not enough numbers!) Email: tomills@DU.EDU SERVICE PROVIDER: Interland Inc. 303 Peachtree Center Avenue Suite 500 Atlanta, Georgia USA 30303 Email: DOMREG@INTERLAND.COM The site appears to still exist as you can find it at it's numerical address http://64.226.96.237 and to me that means it is still sitting there but is not open to the public. Perhaps we can revive it, even to host it elsewhere or to archive a complete copy. The company that hosted the site switches automatically to a new site, so if your type http://www.interland.com you go to http://www.web.com/. It could be the switch to the new site killed the somewhat dormant Regiments.org site. It may have been a "sleeping giant". I have one of those myself, I just let it be! It has to be the same company, as here is their address: (that is good, means we can still contact them) 303 Peachtree Center Avenue 5th Floor Atlanta, GA 30303 I have sent an e-mail to all the addresses I could find for all the companies. The site still exists, as I was able to log-in to their main server and ask it to send me the password. Of course I won't get that, the owner will, but at least that is a good indication the site is still active. Easier to find a lost soldier!! Richard Edit note: e-mails to tomills@du.edu and tfmills@du.edu were returned (Denver University) search of USA 411 does not show a "Mills" at that address Just so it does not get lost, here is the information about the rest of the team from the Archives: This website was founded in 1995 by T.F. Mills, M.L.S., a world citizen educated in England, Swizerland and the United States. He has over thirty years professional experience in librarianship, research, writing and editing (in and out of academia), and has travelled widely. He also has a home page which describes some other projects (and which give a hint of a well spent youth). He currently resides in Colorado. Beginning in 2000, Mills has had the good fortune to be assisted by some outstanding gentlemen, whose contributions greatly enhance this site. Mills remains the owner and general editor responsible for Regiments.Org. In addition to these team members, many other contributors are credited on the pages where their work is displayed. Christopher Buyers joined the team in 2002. His expertise lies in world royalty and honorary colonels of the Commonwealth. A fairly complete list of Field Marshals was added in June 2002. His lists of colonels can be found on the regimental pages of this website. His contributions to pages on Royal Colonels can be accessed from the index of royals. Beginning in 2003 he has also compiled lists of Commanders in Chief of most of the major territories of the Empire and Commonwealth. Buyers also has another extensive website, The Royal Ark: Royal and Ruling Houses of Africa, Asia and the Americas. Wienand Drenth, Ph.D., is a graduate of the University of Eindhoven (Netherlands) in the Scientific Computing Group. Stemming originally from an interest in the British Army's liberation of his home in the Second World War, Drenth later focused his research on Lineages of the Volunteers and Territorials, a continually expanding work which is now hosted on this site. Drenth also has a home page at the University of Eindhoven. A. Melville-Brown, a professional artist trained as an Art teacher at Loughborough College, has produced many of the British regimental badge graphics on this site. After teaching for some years, he started his own Limited Company, which specialised in designing and printing First Day Covers for Stamp Collectors. This eventually developed into two specialised fields, that of "Cricket" (see Cricket Stamp Collectors Album) and "Military". Using paintings he commissioned by the well-known military artist Charles Stadden, Mel published a series of "Military Uniform" postcards. Mel also used his own artwork to publish another series of postcards which featured "Crest and Badges of the Armed Forces". These images are now also licensed to the Kandles & Co. Military Insignia catalogue. Now retired, Mel designs postage stamps for several countries around the world. For permission to use Melville-Brown's regimental graphics displayed on this site, please contact the artist directly. The webmaster deeply regrets that for the first three years of their display on this site (2002-2004), these graphics were stolen property erroneously attributed to another person. They are now displayed with the permission of the true artist and copyright holder. Michael Moir-Bussy, B.A., belongs to that sturdy breed of Englishmen who, along with many former worthier regimental comrades, tilled 'foreign soils' with their blood, sweat and tears. He has had over thirty years public service, including military and police experience in Papua New Guinea. Moir-Bussy, bringing a wealth of military and theological wisdom to the task, serves as general advisor to Regiments.Org. Richard Rinaldi, M.A., M.Phil., (history and political science) has close to thirty years experience in the US federal government, currently as a personnel specialist. His interest and research in military history goes back to high school days, and his Lineage and History of British Higher Formations (divisions and brigades) is now hosted on this site. Graham Watson, Ph.D., a Scot by birth but resident in Wales since 1969, is a retired lecturer in history at the University of Wales. Author of histories of the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia), Corps of Royal Engineers, and Royal Corps of Signals, as well as a battlefield tour guide for the Territorial Army, Watson's extensive notes form the basis for some new sections of this website, beginning with Deployments of the British Regular Army. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Reed Posted 16 March , 2008 Share Posted 16 March , 2008 It is very sad this is gone, as it was an excellent resource. Isn't Wienand Drenth a member of this forum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 16 March , 2008 Share Posted 16 March , 2008 Couldn't you access it via the link Mike gave and download the entire site with a site spider application? Then at least you have a copy of it. Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughton Posted 16 March , 2008 Share Posted 16 March , 2008 The Internet Archive has at most 20 pages available, just a snap shot of the entire works. The complete project "Land Forces of Britain, The Empire and the Commonwealth" has over 3,000 pages. If we can find it as a complete copy somewhere it would take some time to download and it would most likely need to be downloaded to another server. That is a lot of work just to have gone "poof". Just so everyone is aware, I am using the resources of both the GWF and the CEFSG to find the site. So far I have got negative results on the Mills e-mail addresses, zero results on a university contact, etc. I sent a message direct to Denver University in the event they had knowledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellal Posted 16 March , 2008 Share Posted 16 March , 2008 The Internet Archive has at most 20 pages available, just a snap shot of the entire works. Did you try this link? It appears to have about 200 pages and if you open them, you can access most of the links on those pages. If this is the site you have already checked, sorry. I've never gone into this aspect of the net before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenwoodman Posted 16 March , 2008 Share Posted 16 March , 2008 Hope this resource can be resurrected, I've used it quite a bit in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 16 March , 2008 Share Posted 16 March , 2008 The complete project... has over 3,000 pages. If we can find it as a complete copy somewhere it would take some time to download and it would most likely need to be downloaded to another server. 3000 is not massive. http://www.drillhalls.org is already over 1000 pages and is nowhere near finished. Downloading an entire website for one's own personal use wouldn't need another server. For a start, it wouldn't have any traffic. Anyway, it was just a suggestion in the absence of the live site, which appears to be much missed. Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ddt740 Posted 23 March , 2008 Share Posted 23 March , 2008 Just so everyone is aware, I am using the resources of both the GWF and the CEFSG to find the site. I happend to find a web archive of the site. Here. Edit: just for anyone interested. This is a 28Mb downloadable file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughton Posted 23 March , 2008 Share Posted 23 March , 2008 Fantastic find DDT! I was not familiar with *.chm Microsoft HTML Help Files so it took me a while to figure out how to open it once it was saved. For the others the instructions are here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902225 I used the 2nd approach of right clicking the file once saved and unblocking the file in the properties (the box at the bottom when you click on the properties). And the file appears to be all there and the navigation works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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