ofxhome.com down

[Carwyn Nelson]

Hi,

I’m joining this conversation a little late so I haven’t got all of the details.

Would it be possible to open source ofxhome.com <http://ofxhome.com/>? I don’t know much of anything at all about the software (I’m a very light user of gnu cash) but I would really like to contribute to the community and I’m sure that I can make some helpful pull requests to ofxhome.

If ofxhome were to become open source then I would also happily contribute to the hosting costs and maintenance.

Carwyn.

> On 2 May 2017, at 23:00, Paul Makepeace <paulm at paulm.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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