Re: [PCWorks] GeoCities is closing; transferring a website
- From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:50:47 -0500
FWIW, those pages are back up now.
Going from memory, I believe the "options" they gave as to the
problem was "maintenance", and I think something about "server
unavailable". I bet they blocked your access due to too many
requests from that program.
-Clint
God Bless,
Clint Hamilton, Owner
www.OrpheusComputing.com
www.ComputersCustomBuilt.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Springer"
On 28 Apr 2009 at 2:25 -0500, Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin
wrote, at least in part:
> Yeah, did you disable your firewall?
No.
> Those kinds of programs can have problems with firewalls
> because they many times have to download off-site data. Also
> a lot of servers have them blocked at some level. But in
> that particular case it looks like a Yahoo problem. Unless
> that's "their version" of a 404 not found. ?? I say that
> because the other pages are still up.
Did a Google search on the error message. FWIW one response
was:
It means that your server is getting more traffic than it can
handle.
Karl
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karl Springer"
>
> On 27 Apr 2009 at 23:52 -0500, Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin
> wrote, at least in part:
>
> > Ah yes, correct. I see now they don't allow that anymore.
> > -Clint
> >
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Vern"
> >
> > > I don't know how "Backstreet Browser" (sounds like some
> > > kind of p-0rn browser, hee hee), would actually work for
> > > what you need. If you have a lot of pages and images,
> > > using
> > > an FTP program is the simplest thing to do. I rarely need
> > > one, but when I do I use WS_FTP.
> >
> > I don't believe Geocities allows FTP access on the free
> > accounts.
>
> This thread prompted me to try to download the site using the
> HTTrack website copier, <http://www.httrack.com/>. Downloaded
> about 7.45MB (over 1,000 files in more than 80 folders). The
> download log reported 573 errors, e.g.
>
> "Service Temporarily Unavailable" (503) at link (from
> www.geocities.com/buddychai/Religion/ChristianitysSin.html
> www.geocities.com/buddychai/Religion/TheHolocaust.html)
>
> Re FTP client, have found that FileZilla,
> <http://filezilla-project.org/>, works well on the websites I
> maintain or assist in the maintenance.
>
> Karl
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