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ACT9: DarkBox, the universal dark site
When I saw the latest act mission, I jumped for joy. Finally, something I was actually moderately good at—programming. I was also intrigued by the special challenges that a dark site faces—it has to be able to be hammered by traffic, but yet stay readable, functional, and informative. So, what came out of all of that?
I just whipped up DarkBox, what I like to call a dark site in a box. It allows anyone to handle the creation of a dark site-type site seconds, leaving you to the actual management of the site and handling of the information, something that would be much more important than your server crashing when you're in the middle of a crisis.
So, how do you use it? It's really simple. Just download DarkBox, unzip it onto any modern web server, and you're good to go! The page can be added to by someone with no technical experience—all they have to do is create text files in a directory. If you're so inclined, you can also add some more advanced features by editing the script itself or adding HTML files. Plus, if your site is vital—being accessed by an entire country, or maybe being accessed by people on their phones—you can simply direct people to the ultimate bandwidth saver: a totally plain text site. There's no loss of functionality going to plaintext, though—because DarkBox uses Markdown, even the source is totally readable and not obfuscated by any type of code.
So, give it a try if you're inclined! Remember, it's (like most of my other work) extremely beta and untested, so don't hesitate to leave bug reports.
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Comment by M. on April 29, 2010 at 4:12am
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Aren't you clever ... and fast! For folks who are working on you Act Mission for Week 9, please take a moment to check out my plea for updating your dark site after you create it: http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/maintaining-a-dark-site
It may be years before your site is needed, and having accurate information will be important in a real crisis.
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Comment by Michele Baron on April 29, 2010 at 5:20am
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good information, interesting site. I will try it out in a while. thank you for the post.
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Comment by Tina Tresbien on April 29, 2010 at 11:36am
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Getting information out fast is key in a crisis. Just wanted to say nice job of creating a dark site model anyone can use.
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Comment by Simon Brookes on April 29, 2010 at 2:16pm
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Mos splendid indeed Agent Fruchter :-)
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Comment by Nathan L Verrill on April 29, 2010 at 7:55pm
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Sweeeeeeet.
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