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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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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