ofxhome.com down

Paul Makepeace paulm at paulm.com
Tue May 2 17:17:38 EDT 2017


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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