passenger car index down

[EspeeGoldenState]

I know the American Passenger Rail Heritage Foundation (APRHF) is interested in purchasing the domain and hosting and the site.

www.aprhf.org

Chris

[nkalanaga]

Sounds like a great host, and somebody who'd be willing to do the work needed to keep it current.

[eja]

Perhaps everyone on the Railwire who has benefited from Passenger Car Index cold make a contribution to whoever ends up hosting the site. 

Maybe Railwire could set up a Go Fund Me like effort to encourage someone or some organization to take it over ??

[EspeeGoldenState]

Just wanted to update this thread to let everyone that the APRHF has purchased Jerry's three websites, but unfortunately the daughter and GoDaddy was of no help on who actually hosted the websites. I think we may have to archive the web crawler versions and rebuild from there.

Chris

[johnb]

Just wanted to update this thread to let everyone that the APRHF has purchased Jerry's three websites, but unfortunately the daughter and GoDaddy was of no help on who actually hosted the websites. I think we may have to archive the web crawler versions and rebuild from there.

Chris

godaddy has set security protocols to make sure that someone doesn't use social engineering to steal someone's content.  If she can not validate into account, she can request access to the account through http://changeupdate.com and she will need a copy of the death certificate.  They also have backups of cancelled hosting accounts stored for up to 30 days. It sounds like she got a new rep who did not know this.

[EspeeGoldenState]

The daughter gave us all the login info that was needed to actually log into Jerry's account, but GoDaddy was not the host of the websites, and therefore there is not backups of the site. And they couldnt find who the actual host was.

Chris

[MK]

I would imagine that there's someone on TRW that can help with this as we have a few web guys here.  There's got to be a way to trace things back.

What about past e-mail invoices?  Someone has to pay someone to host it.  The invoices might give an idea who was hosting it.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Have you talked to Rick Rowlands (I think he did the work of getting it setup) at RYPN? Since, after all, they HAVE mirrored the site successfully:
http://passcarphotos.rypn.org/

[EspeeGoldenState]

Have you talked to Rick Rowlands (I think he did the work of getting it setup) at RYPN? Since, after all, they HAVE mirrored the site successfully:
http://passcarphotos.rypn.org/

Ive sent two emails, and still waiting on a response from them, to ask about that.

Chris

[wcfn100]

The site is available as a zip file at the link Ed gave.


Jason

[peteski]

Wouldn't there be a DNS record of the IP address of the original site. If the IP address was available, one could look up which company owns that block of IP addresses.

[wcfn100]

Wouldn't there be a DNS record of the IP address of the original site. If the IP address was available, one could look up which company owns that block of IP addresses.

Right now GoDaddy is listed as the host.


Jason

[peteski]

Right now GoDaddy is listed as the host.


Jason

How about the wayback machine?  Wouldn't they still have some info about the original IP address?

[wcfn100]

How about the wayback machine?  Wouldn't they still have some info about the original IP address?

I don't think they record the server IP info,  but there are sites that do and all that shows is GoDaddy.

Jason