ofxhome.com down

Paul Makepeace paulm at paulm.com
Tue May 2 18:00:50 EDT 2017


Yep, new-ish Debian and a bulkregister account. Practically it is
easier for me to at least have some control of the DNS/registrar
situation in case I need to move it.

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 2:52 PM, GWB <gwb at 2realms.com> wrote:
> Derek, Paul, If the current owner of the site is willing to maintain
> it on one of Paul's instances or containers, that sounds like the best
> solution.  If you need me to transfer any domain leases and set up a
> DNS resolver with GoDaddy, I can do that.  I can also pay for three
> years for the domain lease with Moniker, unless Paul has a better
> option.
>
> Don't know much about PHP, however (sounds like a song, don't it?).  I
> could navigate Plone, Zope or zotonic on a BSD box, or possibly
> Solaris, but that doesn't help in this case.  Paul, you have hosting
> on Debian boxes, correct?
>
> Gordon
>
> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Paul Makepeace <paulm at paulm.com> wrote:
>> Happy to host either of the domains or site - I have a boutique
>> hosting company with spare capacity and happy to help out the
>> community with some stable hosting. Feel free to email.
>>
>> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>>> +gnucash-devel
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> tl;dr: ofxhome.com is down.  I emailed the owner.  He found out about it
>>> today.  We should decide what to do.
>>>
>>> Long version:
>>>
>>> I just heard back from him.  Here's his response:
>>>
>>> I just found out about this today. As you can guess I haven't been doing
>>> much with
>>> ofxhome.com recently other than keeping it on life support.
>>>
>>>
>>> My host was medialayer and it turns out that its owner has passed away and
>>> the
>>> service has shut down. I should have some old backups available.
>>> Unfortunately I may
>>> not be able to access anything recent. I'll continue looking into this.
>>>
>>>
>>> Does the community have a plan in place? I'm happy to turn over
>>> ofxhome.com to the
>>> open source community. Or you can go in a different direction if you think
>>> ofxhome.com should be replaced (you won't hurt my feelings, it's old!).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> So... what WOULD be the plan?  I don't think we even considered a plan..
>>> We could take it over, but we probably want it "hosted" as opposed to
>>> "self-hosted"..  I don't know what the platform is/was that he was using.
>>>
>>> Comments?  Suggestions?
>>>
>>> -derek
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 2, 2017 12:41 pm, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>>> yes, we noticed this last night.
>>>> I've emailed the domain owner to inquire.
>>>> -derek
>>>>
>>>> Paul Faulstich <psf at waltzingcat.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> It appears ofxhome.com has been down since about April 24. Not sure
>>>>> when,
>>>>> or if, it will come back online. This breaks GnuCash's ability to look
>>>>> up
>>>>> bank information.  :(
>>>>>
>>>>> psf
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