http://meownplanet.net/ is down

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jamesbond · #1 Post by **jamesbond** » Tue 20 May 2014, 17:05

It is currently down due to expiring domain name.

This repository is the site of many important files, among others, it is the primary upload site for zigbert apps. The repo belongs to russodle. I haven't seen russodle around here often too, I hope she's doing all right.

cheers!

Keef · #2 Post by **Keef** » Tue 20 May 2014, 19:58

Files look to be still accessible here:
http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/

rokytnji · #3 Post by **rokytnji** » Tue 20 May 2014, 20:07

Keef wrote:Files look to be still accessible here:
http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/

Maybe it is a USA thing?

This domain name expired on May 18 2014 01:44:52:000PM
Click here to renew it.

That was what I received clicking on your link Keef.
Same as jamesbond.

Edit: just to show where I ended up Keef.

http://ww2.meownplanet.net/?folio=7POYGN0G2

James C · #4 Post by **James C** » Tue 20 May 2014, 20:16

rokytnji wrote:
Keef wrote:Files look to be still accessible here:
http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/
Maybe it is a USA thing?

This domain name expired on May 18 2014 01:44:52:000PM
Click here to renew it.
That was what I received clicking on your link Keef.
Same as jamesbond.

Edit: just to show where I ended up Keef.

http://ww2.meownplanet.net/?folio=7POYGN0G2

Same here.

Karl Godt · #5 Post by **Karl Godt** » Tue 20 May 2014, 21:02

This domain name expired on May 18 2012 01:44PM
Click here to renew it.

I think pemasu and Catdude have their repos there too ..? Or was it smokey ?

That's live - C'est la vie .

Money comes - Money goes ..

Money seems never to expire to others ..

We would need nails with heads !

Keef · #6 Post by **Keef** » Tue 20 May 2014, 22:09

No, its gone down here as well now - must have been a lag somewhere.

neerajkolte · #7 Post by **neerajkolte** » Wed 21 May 2014, 05:58

rokytnji wrote:Maybe it is a USA thing?

Nope, can't access it from India too. Just a few days ago I saw it, that was a good collection of apps and isos.

dejan555 · #8 Post by **dejan555** » Wed 21 May 2014, 12:47

I'll email russoodle, I have files there too.

tlchost · #9 Post by **tlchost** » Wed 21 May 2014, 13:20

dejan555 wrote:I'll email russoodle, I have files there too.

From the whois
Status: redemptionPeriod
Updated Date: 18-may-2014
Creation Date: 05-apr-2013
Expiration Date: 05-apr-2014

So, if it's not renewed soon the domain is lost,
and many hosting companies will delete the
content...if they have not done so already.

The internet archive way back machine has no information, as the
robots.txt file prohibited crawling the site.

Hopem all that were housed there have backups.

Thom

dejan555 · #10 Post by **dejan555** » Wed 21 May 2014, 13:36

Sent an email
I should have all of my files that were there

dejan555 · #11 Post by **dejan555** » Wed 21 May 2014, 14:05

Just got a reply from russoodle, all should be back to normal soon.

russoodle · #12 Post by **russoodle** » Wed 21 May 2014, 15:06

Hey guys....so sorry for this inconvenience

I've just dealt with it, so i hope things will be back to normal soon. It's still showing that horrible page at the moment though....pffft!

@jamesbond: yes, things certainly could've been better lately - seems if it's not one thing, it's another, but stuff happens, hey?

No, Thom, the domain is not lost - i've paid the renewal fee, which is actually only 3 days overdue. I don't know what the waffle about April's in aid of because it's always been May..

Another thing: if i wasn't going to pay my domain renewal or VPS charges, i'd make sure the community knew about it in advance so they could make other arrangements....unless i carked it, of course, that would be a surprise to me as well!

About backups: there's not enough space left on my server these days to do one there, so i hope users are backing up their own stuff or keeping local copies when uploading. I do have some stuff backed up at home but it takes me about 5,432 years to re-upload it! Puppylinux Stuff is currently eating roughly 96GB of server disk space..

@Karl: i get most of what you wrote in your post, but what's this about needing nails with heads?? Either you're talking left-handed or i'm thick as a block of flats and should head off to bed!

About money.....well, i didn't go into this expecting anyone to fork out in that respect, but if anyone wishes to throw me a bone, well...it would be appreciated but that's entirely up to the user. PayPal address is miss-suzanne at safe-mail dot net

Treats to you all,
russoodle

ETP · #13 Post by **ETP** » Wed 21 May 2014, 18:23

It's still showing that horrible page at the moment though....pffft!

Perhaps this would be more appropriate.

8-bit · #14 Post by **8-bit** » Wed 21 May 2014, 23:18

When I clicked on russoodle's link in his post above, I got a page flash by saying this page has been redirected. It happened fast enough that I could not read all of it. From there, I ended up at a page that supposedly shows sites related to meownplanet.net.
So the page we are seeing is one that was redirected to from the original link.
I wish russoodle the best in getting the site back up as repositories for Things Puppy are valuable as are the members that provide those sites!

russoodle · #15 Post by **russoodle** » Sat 24 May 2014, 04:46

Hi guys,

Thanks for your patience - mine's nearly expired! Anyway, as of the early hours of this morning, Sat. 24th May Aussie time, my site is back up....yaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy!!!

@ETP.. oh thank you, that really cracked me up...MUCH more appropriate

@8-bit: thanks for good wishes....it's truly a PITA when these things happen and i really seem to have been letting the side down over the past year or so..

Just an aside....when i returned home to stay last month, i took out my trusty external drive that travelled with me and which has all my backups on it - personal, puppylinuxstuff, everything.. I'm sure you can imagine my horror and disbelief to find that puppy couldn't read it, apparently corrupt! So...after some panicking, inventing some good new curse-words, followed by a down-to-earth, calming conversation with another puppian, i brought cthisbear's favourite tool, Hiren's, to the rescue. Thing about that is that the tools are .exe files, so it's fortuitous on this occasion that i had a puptop lappy that i'd left a pristine XP on, so i used that, together with a clean external drive, (formatted to FAT32), and managed to recover everything!! Hell of an ordeal mentally, but ahhhhh, the relief afterwards!

I really must find this jinx and delete it for good!!!!!

Thank you for your support, fellow puppians and Karl, don't be so quick to write me off! And to CatDude, a truckload of those treats you're so fond of

russoodle

zigbert · #16 Post by **zigbert** » Sat 24 May 2014, 06:35

thank you russoodle

neerajkolte · #17 Post by **neerajkolte** » Sat 24 May 2014, 06:57

russoodle wrote:Just an aside....when i returned home to stay last month, i took out my trusty external drive that travelled with me and which has all my backups on it - personal, puppylinuxstuff, everything.. I'm sure you can imagine my horror and disbelief to find that puppy couldn't read it, apparently corrupt! So...after some panicking, inventing some good new curse-words, followed by a down-to-earth, calming conversation with another puppian, i brought cthisbear's favourite tool, Hiren's, to the rescue. Thing about that is that the tools are .exe files, so it's fortuitous on this occasion that i had a puptop lappy that i'd left a pristine XP on, so i used that, together with a clean external drive, (formatted to FAT32), and managed to recover everything!! Hell of an ordeal mentally, but ahhhhh, the relief afterwards!

Would Testdisk-6.14 + Photorec work for you. If you still have that corrupt disk could you test it or is Hiren's only option?.
Thanks

russoodle · #18 Post by **russoodle** » Sat 24 May 2014, 07:30

@zigbert, you're very welcome

@neerajkolte: my puptops and HP desktop are only 32-bit machines but i could install FD64 v630 on the little old iMac, so thank you very much for the link.

It's actually TestDisk and PhotoRec ('doze version) that i used, after i downloaded and checked out several different tools on that site. Having been away, coming-and-going for some months, i haven't kept up with with all the progress being made in the kennels, so i really appreciate your pointing that out to me (I've just added WillM's pets to my google drive as well).

I would test it for you, neerajkolte, but i've already reformatted the drive, so i guess there's no point now....i haven't reinstalled anything on it yet though. The drive doesn't seem to be a dud, no bad sectors or nasty stuff but i saw that, when it was misbehaving, it was apparently formatted to NTFS, which i never do, always use FAT32 for storage/external drives...i have a theory how that mess came about, however..

cheers,
russoodle

jamesbond · #19 Post by **jamesbond** » Sun 25 May 2014, 16:36

russoodle wrote:@jamesbond: yes, things certainly could've been better lately - seems if it's not one thing, it's another, but stuff happens, hey?

Well as they say, when it rains, it pours ... I just wish it doesn't get flooded

Usually when the site down it can mean not-so-good happenstances to the owner (it happened once when grafpup.org site went down). Glad to hear you're ok

cheers!

neerajkolte · #20 Post by **neerajkolte** » Mon 26 May 2014, 14:00

russoodle wrote:I would test it for you, neerajkolte, but i've already reformatted the drive, so i guess there's no point now....

Sorry for late reply. Don't worry about testing I have tested them from Fatdog64 on a friends drive but I just extracted photos and videos. They were good. Just didn't know about .pets .sfs or .iso, but they might recover nicely too.

russoodle wrote:my puptops and HP desktop are only 32-bit machines but i could install FD64 v630 on the little old iMac, so thank you very much for the link.

I am sure if you searched in our forum you would find 32bit version of them too. I seem to remember somebody saying installing them from ubuntu repos in precise.

Thanks

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