Can't ftp into site??
Hi, didn't know where to post this..?
The very first site i made was hosted on Xoom, which was gobbled up by nbci..which i just learned today, ok,i'm a week late in knowing this...
is closing down now.
I just tried to ftp into the site ..and got a login failure.
What i had intended to do was pull the site entirely..maybe put up a page that said "Looking for...go here". Now i can't get it down..and this one is listed in the search engines. My plan was to totally revamp this site this summer and actually pay for hosting (cheap) somewhere.
So do i just leave it? and hope when i redo it and do another search engine listing they won't get too confused..it will be called the same name, but location will be different.
There is not any where on nbci that i can find to contact them.
And also this month, my local isp where i had a free members space, closed without warning, and there sits a demo site with a lot of stuff that i would rather pull than have there for any one to see.
They do not respond to phone, email, or anything.
I don't know what to do about this..?
Just leave it all and forget it as more internet junk accululates?
Sorry for being so long winded..it's early in the morning here!
Thanks for any of your suggestion and help.
dragonsjaw
"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight- 'Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight." - Bruce Cockburn
toneatlas posted this at 16:05 — 21st April 2001.
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Hello, I have a site with nbci from a long time ago when they were xoom, to my surprise I checked it out and its still up??!!?.
What kind of login error? what did the error message say?
If you trying to log in make sure user name and pass word is correct.
As far as the ftp address try ftp.nbci.com
You say they wont return your e.mails?
thats weird everything looks as if its running o.k
try this contact page:
http://home.nbci.com/LMOID/resource/0,566,home-3963,00.html?st.sn.ft.0.cont
As far as the search engines go you will need to send them an update as to where your new site will be.
Hope I helped a little bit.
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Justin S posted this at 20:46 — 21st April 2001.
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I know what you mean dragonsjaw, I hate leaving "Internet junk" around too. But ISPs usually close accounts if their inactive for a certain period of time.
I would definitely try to put up a redirection page on your Xoom account, so that you won't lose all the traffic you were getting from search engines.
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Jaiem posted this at 21:14 — 21st April 2001.
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Getting an engine to update a listing isn't easy. Last year I worked with a client who bought a domain name and changed the content. But we just couldn't get the engines to update the name (URL) for the new content!
dragonsjaw posted this at 17:41 — 22nd April 2001.
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Thanks for the reply toneatlas, i have emailed and we will see what happens.
My site is still up as well, but without access it is just dead in the water so to speak.
And yes, Justin, i don't like creating more garbage!
It wasn't like we got much traffic, but with the site redesign and upgrade i had hope to create a more 'sticky' site for those looking for that type of info.
If i can't ftp in, and put a page there for redirection, is there another way to go about it?
Jaiem, with the 'new' site i am also buying the domain name and going to pay for inexpensive web hosting (very small) ..
so will that change my odds at getting search engines to index the site?
Before it was listed as (for example):
http://members.xoom.com/......the site name..
this time it will be:
Site Name.com??
Thanks for the responses,
dragonsjaw
"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight- 'Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight." - Bruce Cockburn
Jaiem posted this at 12:21 — 23rd April 2001.
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Changing the content helps of course but you still have to resubmit to the engines and hope they update their DB's. Few engines have a seperate UPDATE form. You just have to submit the URL and hopefully their software will "notice" the content/tag changes and re-index your site.
Sorry I can't be any more encouraging. Good luck.
NSS posted this at 02:12 — 24th April 2001.
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I have a free site at xoom.com also for more than 3 years(my first homepage) now and it's still working.
dragonsjaw posted this at 16:40 — 24th April 2001.
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I have heard from many people that they are not haveing the same ftp problems...so i guess i will just keep trying and see what happens.
I still do plan to revamp and change hosts with this site..but it willl be this summer.
Thanks for all your responses,
dragonsjaw
"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight- 'Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight." - Bruce Cockburn
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