We've come a long way
(I only have stats for the secondary mirror so it's probably a lot more in reality)

Thanks for voting in the poll! Here’s a rough draft of the plan I have in mind:

This would be my first time running a fundraiser, so if you have any suggestions I'm open to more ideas.

The Goal: Raise $100 USD each year to cover our OneDrive subscription costs.

How: I plan to set up a fundraiser on a platform like Buy Me a Coffee.
Contributions: Every little bit helps! Any contribution amount, big or small, adds up to help us reach the goal.

Attribution (Optional): We would offer all donors the option to be credited on the LabHub website.
This is completely optional. You would remain anonymous by default.
We could also have a "Sponsor" section for any organizations that prefer to have their name displayed.

This is just the initial draft idea. I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or suggestions in the comments :)

Update:
Use legacy.labhub.eu.org or alist.labhub.eu.org
I'll fix the drive and main mirrors soon

Just added legacy.labhub.eu.org to the list of mirrors in ishare2. You should be able to choose it by issuing the command:

ishare2 config

> Choose legacy when asked to choose a mirror (option 3)
Example: https://t.me/labhub_chat/5121

All mirrors are back online.
Please reinstall ishare2 if needed and choose the autorotate option.
Will fix ishare2 soon

You might start hitting quota limits. Please be patient while I launch a new mirror

Also, shout-out to our friend Ram for providing storage for a whole year! He's a hero to the community!
It has come to an end (due to external issues out of our control) but we're grateful for his service last year!

I'm getting some more storage. Hopefully will be able to come up with 3 independent mirrors

New mirror:
https://drive.labhub.eu.org/1:/
https://labhub.eu.org/1:/

You will literally see no difference between them, they're the same files but quota will be less exhausted on the new mirror.
I'll get two more soon, meaning we'll soon have:
https://drive.labhub.eu.org/2:/ & https://drive.labhub.eu.org/3:/
(Coming soon)

With 4 mirrors we'll hopefully have enough bandwidth to get around quota limits. We'll see. ishare2 will need to be reworked to work with this new system.

Currently we have no checks for http status and you get whatever HTML is returned on an error status code.

We'll drop support for the ishare2 bash version that is really broken at this point and will become more complex to manage than it already is. I might make a final release just to keep a good legacy version around.

Also, I didn't follow up on that because I might've hallucinated the $100 Onedrive plan. I never saw it again lol

However, I've been able to get $50 shared drives that we'll use to make the mirrors. So far I've bought two packages for the mirrors, so I basically got a similar deal with more storage for mirrors. (14 TB)

Now the only problem is quota limits. I used to get around them with service accounts, that used to be enough but nowadays that's not working. I'll do more research to solve it but if you have any information on how to get around Google Drive quota limits, please let me know.

Hi all,

Apparently there is an ongoing issue with PNETLab's online mode. Even though THIS IS NOT an emulator specific tool or channel, I know that a lot of users are on PNETLab.

Running this command might fix your issue:

mode reset offline

Just put it on bash through ssh

⚠️ Proceed with caution

The following might work too but I haven't tested it.
This will enable offline mode and disable captcha:

mysql -uroot -ppnetlab -D pnetlab_db -e 'UPDATE control SET control_value = "offline" WHERE control_name = "ctrl_default_mode"; UPDATE control SET control_value = "1" WHERE control_name = "ctrl_offline_mode"; UPDATE control SET control_value = "0" WHERE control_name = "ctrl_online_mode"; UPDATE control SET control_value = "0" WHERE control_name = "ctrl_captcha";'

If I remember correctly the default username is "pnet" and the password is "admin" for offline mode or the other way around Idk read the docs at pnetlab.com.

If you get a "user doesn't exist" error then try the next one.

This keeps online mode but disables captcha (probably won't work lol but still here it is):

mysql -uroot -ppnetlab -D pnetlab_db -e 'UPDATE control SET control_value = "online" WHERE control_name = "ctrl_default_mode"; UPDATE control SET control_value = "0" WHERE control_name = "ctrl_offline_mode"; UPDATE control SET control_value = "1" WHERE control_name = "ctrl_online_mode"; UPDATE control SET control_value = "0" WHERE control_name = "ctrl_captcha";'

Let me know if it works or if you have any issues. This assumes you're using the default database password.

I have edited the commands after receiving some user's feedback.

I'd say it's safer to try these commands now that have been tested but still be careful and don't trust random commands that you don't understand from random people on the Internet 👀

I see people still saying ishare2 doesn't work, just a reminder that it's normal. I haven't added the new indexes yet.

(disregard if you don't know what this is, it's meant for devs)

I've purposely not done this until we have more mirrors btw
(A few more days)

I received new Shared Drives today and will start setting up more mirrors. However, be aware that LabHub might change in the way we used to distribute unlimited files without limits. This is not sustainable anymore, it was good while it lasted but the only way to keep this project somewhat alive is to make changes in how we distribute files.
More details coming soon!

(No. We won't start charging for mirrors.)