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Does anyone have any info on who was looking after inverty.com? I can't connect to the site. Not sure if the domain or hosting has expired?

The Doc is keeping it online. It was renewed a few months ago, so it's probably just a temporary technical glitch.

Hopefully, I panicked the other day when I did not get my daily fix.

The other day?

That's not so temporary.

The site has been down since the 1st

So what's happening to it overall? Is it being kept as is? It's a pretty awesome site but it seems a shame to leave it languishing. Any ideas on killing "up to jump" and merging contents with inverty... obviously I understand the reasons for leaving it too but the Rev Built it up and it is such a good site.

Well, yes. As far as I know, it still belongs to Patience.

It would seem wrong to add to it, as it's kind of a memorium to him. It was his own personal website.

yup.. like it that he's still in my open feint charts as well

I've been working my way through his posts reading one a day for the last year

Grim could you check with The Doc on this?
I'm worried it's all vanished off the internet

Yeah, sure. Um... Doc?

While waiting on the doc whois shows

http://www.whois.net/whois/Inverty.com



So the domain has not expired (and that would tie in with Grim...'s comments about it being "recently" renewed)

I renewed the domain and the hosting agreement in November, and I have confirmation from the hosting firm (UKHost4U) that it was paid up for another year. I have no further emails from them warning me about anything being wrong. I've emailed them to ask what is going on.

My email to them:


Their response:



I've double checked my inbox and I had no email from them at all during this process.

Even worse: I have an awful feeling my backup of the site, which I took not long after Owen passed, was on a hard drive that failed. I'll know for sure when I get home. If so, UKHost4U had the only copy. I've replied to their email with shaking hands and I will keep you all informed. I feel sick.

Me:

I'm on my phone, but can this sort of thing be got back with the wayback machine. Sorry, I don't really know how it works.

Deep breath Rich, fingers crossed.

Do you still have the failed drive, Doc?

I looked earlier and it was reporting problems. It does appear to have at least a partial capture of the site:

http://web.archive.org/web/201102020644 ... verty.com/

I could scrape this and partly reconstruct the site from it, as static HTML at least.

No, I binned it in a clear out.

This is my fucking fault for forgetting that backup was on that drive. And for not having it in a folder set to be duped across drives. God damn it.

These things happen, Rich. Don't bang yourself up too hard over it. Fingers crossed they have a backup somewhere.

I was trying to post something like that, but Myps has said it better.

At least there's the Web.archive thingy at least for now.

Oh thank God. UKHost4U deleted the site because of a proxedural cock-up but they have located, and are restoring, a backup.

See! Nothing to worry about.

Is that when you get a numb-from-the-waist-down woman to have your baby for you?

Do you know how big the site is ?

I'm just thinking having something crawl the site and hold it on a dropbox or similar location would be very easy for others to do as long as its small enough - its therefore introduces some redundancy 'just in case'

I'm going to grab a tarball as soon as the site is back up and send to a few folk. Grim..., probably, and yourself if you want.

Cheers Doc, I'll be happy to look after a backup also

The site's back up but I can't take a fresh backup, cPanel (which is the cuss) fails each time. There's no shell access on the account. I suspect it's because its over disk quota (about 1 GB used of 500 MB). I've emailed UKHost4U to ask if they can help sort it out. I can delete things through the cPanel UI, but (obviously) I'm leery of doing that without a backup in place.

I also don't have a login for Owen's Wordpress account. I suppose I can pull that from the database with some legwork.

I'm downloading a copy with httrack at the moment

Easier to just replace it with your own.

OK, so, I have a backup tarball -- about 750 MB. It has the public_html directory that has inverty.com in (as well as some microsites and other static content like some photos that were semi-privately shared, it seems), as well as things like Owen's mail archive.

I'm not really comfortable distributing the mail archive, so I think I'll make a smaller tarball with the web stuff in and put it up for a few folk here to download. Sounds reasonable?

Also, I'm going to (finally) get a running mirror on my own server going, I think, as the first stage towards turning off the ukhost4u instance. It'll be more stable (and cheaper) if it's not running on a hosting environment that's dedicated to it, as I'll be able to keep a closer eye on it.

At home I just downloaded one of those free website scraping programs and ran it over inverty.com

Total size was around 750mb but i've not actually looked to see whats on there (so if there were things which should not be shared please let me know because i assume it spidered the whole site).

My intention was to open up a dropbox account and dump the file on there with the account details 'obscured' but on here (so something like password = Owens sirname)

That would mean that anyone who actually wanted it could grab the files and as long as dropbox is around there would be a copy freely available