rich5962

For many of you who visited my site for restoration tips, Corvette documentation, stories, etc, please note the site will be disabled on October 8th. Comcast has decided to remove this service and delete all websites, files, photos, etc. Another corporate decision to remove something from their customers with a smile.

I have to create a new site on a new server at a later time. I am extremely busy with my projects and have no idea when I'll get to it. If you want to download anything, best do it soon by Oct 8th.

I'd love to find a simple way to convert my site to a new ISP. I have to download and save my HTML's, but the links to photos will be lost. This is the worst part. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. I probably have several thousand photos and files there, only about a GB though.

I used to write HTML and created a few corporate sites long ago when I was in the electronics industry as a hardware engineer, but have been away from it now for over ten years restoring Corvettes, Boats, and Jags instead.

Rich

Frankie the Fink

I am attempting to 'rip' your entire website down to my PC with a utility I've used before; it'll be locally browsable with all links, photos, text and files intact if it works. The utility will allow you to redeploy the web site to a mirror later on IF IT WORKS... There can be glitches depending on Java implementation, recursive links, complex CGI with redirects, lots of other snags.

I've done it before elsewhere so if it works out I'll PM you. You'll have to send me an email with your FULL permission allowing me to do the web site capture for the record or I will delete it from my PC within 24 hours (there can be some ethical/legalities involved)....

It will take a while.....prob all day (I have other bandwidth hog processes working concurrently).

Again, depending on site construction its a 70/30 chance it will work.

I"ll upload the site to my RAID NAS storage for safekeeping and regular backup if it goes OK...

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I can then send you a CD of the site or show you how to rip it yourself.
(You would think Comcast would do the same as a courtesy!)

cbernhardt

Is your site accessible with FTP (file transfer protocol)? If so you should be able to copy everything with an FTP program.

Charles

Frankie the Fink

Uh...not that simple....for a variety of technical reasons and some ISPs don't allow it.
That's why there are sophisticated utilities to do this task

rich5962

Wow Frank that'd be awesome !!!

I'll send you the info you need.

Yes it's FTP'able but the links to photos etc aren't captured. That's the main problem as i see it.

Rich

Frankie the Fink

If you linked from Comcast out to another site for photos my process may not work either...the links will be preserved but they won't lead anywhere on the mirror.

Did you have anything under the "Photos" or "Blog" section of your website ?

cbernhardt

I looked at the page source on some of Rich's pages and it looks to me like the photo links are in the HTML code, but you guys probably know more about this than I do.

Charles

Frankie the Fink

I've got the site local and I'm beating the comcast site against my local rip....
I'll report back..

Tiros

Comcast is always in the top ten most hated companies for USA, year after year.



http://customer.xfinity.com/help-and...-usage-trials/

It's a "Trial" ? I'd bet the Vette they aren't "trying it" in FIOS areas. (don't get excited->j.k.)

And how nice they are going to let you go over the limit 3x during the adjustment period without billing you.

There is nothing stopping them from lowering the limit at any time.

Did they lower the OPs bill when they took away his feature?

At my house you can pick Comcast or Comcast. And they know it.

rich5962

Nope, all photos local on "myonlinestorage" directory and no outside photos or links. I planned that knowing someday the site may get transferred elsewhere. Years ago I had a server for a while for real estate stuff but when i sold the property I let it lapse.

"Photos" directory had many photos but they deleted them long ago. I never found out why. No "Blog" either.

Thanks,
Rich
ps sent you a note a little while ago

Frankie the Fink

I can't find any errors on the local copy of your website...all links are self-referencing on the same website; the external links to youtube work (e.g. your old boat videos), but I'm not seeing anything close to a gigabyte of data...and the coding is pretty unsophisticated...

FTP may well have worked...

Here is the facility I used and it copied your site in about an hour:
https://www.httrack.com/

You can kick it off yourself Rich and just let it run while you're working...

rich5962

That's some new stuff so they can become more profitable.

The website stuff PWP(Personal Web Pages), was a Perk they had 5 years ago, 100MB max, then upped to 1GBa year later, free to all users. So I kept growing the site cuz they gave me more space. So I used it, started a little site for info, then it grew to a ugly monster using their free website tools, junky and very limited, but easy. So now they are taking away my free gifts and being a indian giver. I hate them for the grief and huge costs. I bend over every time I pay my bill.

2 years ago, if you had a PWP site, you could keep it, but they disallowed any new users from using it. So it was grandfathered to those who started it and setup a site.

A month ago they informed all users that it's going away. They never supported it after a while, and the Comcast Forums were the only help. Sometimes the PWP Editor went down and it took weeks for Comcast to fix it. All moot now so I'll be looking for a new ISP, and probably drop Comcast totally afterwards. I'm paying $75 a month just for Comcast Internet, which includes Basic Cable but I have Dish Network 250 channels so Comcast TV is only good to verify cable at the pole lately by plugging in a TV to diagnose internet faults.

rich5962

Thanks Frank!! I'll run it later in the shop. Doing a '59 soft top install and will need a break later.

stratplus

Rich, your site is amazing with your detailed write ups with your descriptions and great photos.

I use Comcast now and hate them, I hate them even more now.

Frankie the Fink

I hate them now too and I've never used them.

FIRST RULE OF CUSTOMER CARE:

Don't take something away that you've already given the customer without providing an equivalent product....or some compensation, AND, plenty of notice you are going to do so!

I have an ugly story about Toyota's "complimentary" ToyotaCare program I won't share here..

grumpy10956

please let us know when you have relocated the sight enjoy reading about the Betty Skelton 1956.

grumpy

rich5962

Frank I didn't get out of the shop until about 10 and too tired to hack, but I just started running the mirror now.

Really nice S/W. Thanks for taking the time to help me out. I'll report back later.

Within the month or two I'll get a new ISP and re-create my site elsewhere. With time I'm going to rewrite the site to make it more user friendly and better looking.

Thanks
Rich

Frankie the Fink

More then glad to help Rich - I hope everything got transferred OK.

60-vette

I hope so too, because I am just good in making notes with a ballpen. I would not be able to copy Rich's pages on my pc.
Frankie will you enable us to get access to Rich's good "How to" s?

Rich's pages and replies helped me a lot in keeping my vette still going strong.

Thank you, I'll put a word in for you tonite.

Craftsman51

Comcast = yuk