MainByte is Down

[+Ksarul]

Anyone have good contact with MainByte? His site is down with the notice that something is coming soon, which is usually shorthand for: the previous subscription for this site expired.

 

 

[+Schmitzi]

This here is at least not a bad info (expiration in 2017):

      Domain Name: MAINBYTE.COM   Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC   Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 146   Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com   Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com   Name Server: NS3.SECURESERVER.NET   Name Server: NS4.SECURESERVER.NET   Status: clientDeleteProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited   Status: clientRenewProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientRenewProhibited   Status: clientTransferProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited   Status: clientUpdateProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited   Updated Date: 23-feb-2015   Creation Date: 22-feb-2000   Expiration Date: 22-feb-2017

[Omega-TI]

 

Updated Date: 23-feb-2015

Creation Date: 22-feb-2000

Expiration Date: 22-feb-2017

 

Going direct to a specific page gets one nothing, the main page get the "FUTURE HOME" page (which is scary).

So from about 6 months since Go Daddy last updated the information, we've lost it. It appears to be locked down an held.

If it was being updated or under major construction I would think there would be some notice instead of a generic page.

 

While this site had not been updated in quite a while, it was still THE place to go (IMHO) for project information on the main upgrades.

 

I'm curious, did anyone ever 'copy' the site for private use just in case anything ever happened?

[Omega-TI]

I just went through my stuff because I remembered I had something from Mainbyte on my computer. I had wanted to play with a new piece of software a while back, so to test it out and get familiar with it, I decided to make a PDF out of one of Mainbyte's project pages.

 

Here it is...

 

 

PEB Disassembly & Fan Project.pdf

[+InsaneMultitasker]

I'm curious, did anyone ever 'copy' the site for private use just in case anything ever happened?

 

When this happens I usually take a peek at the internet way back site.. It looks like a lot of the information can still be obtained from the snapshots.

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20150419221108/http://www.mainbyte.com/

[+arcadeshopper]

i emailed.. see if it bounces

[+Schmitzi]

no panic its toxic

[+Schmitzi]

...very toxic

 

[RickyDean]

I too, save a lot of the pages from sites I visit like this. I have alot of mainbyte's stuff downloaded to computer.

[+Schmitzi]

..the world is not enough

[+acadiel]

It's back up for me today.

 

(Yeah, I'm still alive.. been a rough summer. Three surgeries and one hospitalization.)

[Omega-TI]

Yep, mostly. I just tried it at 16:05 PT and everything seems to be up EXCEPT the upgrades & projects section.

[+arcadeshopper]

i emailed.. see if it bounces

He got back to me today. Said it was his hosting provider and should be fixed now

[+Schmitzi]

...what a luck

[Vorticon]

Ah good news! The minute I heard the site was down I went to the wayback machine and downloaded all the hardware projects I was interested in before they went poof!

[sometimes99er]

A lot of the ASP driven pages are still down. I'm occasionally using the excellent XB ref.

http://mainbyte.com/ti99/basic/basic2.asp

[Keith99er]

Good to hear this site is still alive!

[Shift838]

looks like mainbyte is down again.

[Omega-TI]

looks like mainbyte is down again.

 

Parts of it anyway....

[atrax27407]

I think I mentioned problems with Mainbyte awhile ago. Guess what, they are still there.

[+arcadeshopper]

seems fixed now