ofxhome.com down

Jon Daley gnucash at jon.limedaley.com
Tue May 2 18:20:56 EDT 2017 

Hi all,

I run a webhosting company and while I don't use the ofxhome site, I could 
host it for free (assuming the low cpu load comment below is correct).



On Tue, 2 May 2017, Derek Atkins wrote:

> I feel like I'm being a go-between right now.  Perhaps I should merge
> these two conversation threads?
>
> I asked him a bunch of these questions already:
>
>> Right now we (GnuCash) didn't have a plan but we are discussing our
>> options.  I cannot answer for other users of OFXHome at all.
>>
>> Could you answer a few questions about the site:
>> - How much bandwidth did it have/use?
>
> Basically nothing. I never bothered measuring it. My serving account was
> basic
> $10/month shared hosting.
>
>> - What was the content?  Was it static or quazi-static?  Was it just MySQL
>> + PHP or some other CMS?
>
> That's basically it. MySQL + php + a message board. Nothing was static or
> cached.
> But the resources used so little that I didn't have a need to.
>
>> - What else could you tell me about the requirements if we did decide to
> t> ake it over from you?  Or what resources would YOU need to resurrect it?
>
> The requirements are pretty minimal. It was basically a web service, some
> cron jobs,
> and some forms. There was no magic involved other than some hacky code for
> pinging
> OFX servers and looking at their SSL certificates. Getting it back up and
> running
> should be straightforward. The hardest part may be installing the right
> packages to
> work with the certificates.
>
> The bad news is that it looks like any recent backups are not available.
> I'll check
> what I have at home when I get home today. It's probably at least a year old.
>
>
>
> -derek
>
> On Tue, May 2, 2017 3:07 pm, GWB wrote:
>> Is the owner of the domain willing to "point" the domain to a
>> different IP address with his domain registrar?  Or is he thinking he
>> would transfer the domain lease to gnucash or some other project?
>> Here's the first part of the "WHO IS" database search on OFXHOME.COM:
>>
>> <<
>> Whois Server Version 2.0
>>
>> Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
>> with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
>> for detailed information.
>>
>> Domain Name: OFXHOME.COM
>> Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC
>> Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 146
>> Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
>> Referral URL: http://www.godaddy.com
>> Name Server: NS1.WIREDTREE.COM
>> Name Server: NS2.WIREDTREE.COM
>> Status: clientDeleteProhibited
>> https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
>> Status: clientRenewProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientRenewProhibited
>> Status: clientTransferProhibited
>> https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
>> Status: clientUpdateProhibited
>> https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
>> Updated Date: 01-mar-2017
>> Creation Date: 27-feb-2008
>> Expiration Date: 27-feb-2018
>>
>>>>> Last update of whois database: Tue, 02 May 2017 18:47:52 GMT <<<
>> ...
>>>>
>>
>> The rest of the info is in the database, contact, etc.  So,
>> conceivably, if the domain pointed to an (extra?) IP that's already
>> one of the servers for gnucash.org, that might work.  Then the
>> question becomes how does the site work; is it similar to a git
>> repository, or mercurial,  or the gnucash download site at
>> sourceforge?  I don't know to run any of those, and I don't use ofx
>> lookups for the bank (I download the ofx files from the institution).
>> But I do know something about the domain leasing and the dns system
>> (not too much, but probably enough).  I use Moniker for domain
>> leasing, and they've been very good at transferring and figuring out
>> domains.  I also use redundant domain resolvers (GoDaddy is quite good
>> for that in North America).
>>
>> Let me know and I'll do some digging.
>>
>> Gordon
>>
>> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 12:33 PM, 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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