Very sorry to lose landrovernet - only recently joined but very appreciative of the advice I'd gotten on there. Great to see that many folks have found their way here. Onwards ..
 
Sorry to hear about this. I am willing to host for nothing if the back up of land rovernet can be found and just host as a reference forinformation. To much information to be lost there
 
Hello folks,

I'm afraid I can't contribute much to this topic, its been over 18 months since I had any involvement with lruk, my own doing admittedly, and even then I had no financial input, and had no part in updates or software. I just did the colour layouts, and dealt with the emails.

I do know that lighting90 was really busy in "real" life, and this is probably the root cause. Not enough hours in the day sometimes.

I agree, its a loss of a good resource. I spent a lot of time collating information and writing articles....I will still have the articles, not sure about the photos though. The hard drive with them on is in the loft! What does that tell you?
 
absw said:
You can trick your browser into resolving the domain to the hosts IP by creating a hosts file entry ...
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OK, it's great that you knew the address ! It proves that the hosting is still working, and a whois on the address shows that the hosting is with RapidSwitch.

As it's an area I sort of deal with in the day job, perhaps I can explain what's needed now - and what'll happen if it doesn't happen.

Getting hold of the domain name itself is one task. Unless someone knows the registrant, it's going to be difficult - it's marked as transfer prohibited because they don't allow domains to be transferred when they are in this limbo state between expiring and being deleted. So it either has to be renewed and then transferred to someone who is prepared to take ownership, or ...
You wait for it to be deleted, and then re-register it. The problem there is that there are professional squatters who have automated systems to buy up such domains so they can then extort ..., err I mean sell it to whoever is prepared to pay the price they set. With something popular and with good search engine rankings (as this probably does), they'll smell the money.
Not sure what can be done about that. If it can be re-registered before the squatters get hold of it, then it's looking rosy.

The hosting is separate. Deleting the domain does not automatically delete the hosting - though that can be different when both are with the same people. So just renewing the domain and resetting the DNS would get the site back up and running.

The next issue is keeping the hosting running, and that will mean paying the hosting company - as well as getting admin access to the site in order to manage it.
Without paying for the hosting, at some point the account will expire and the hosting company will delete the whole lot. If we could somehow pay for it, but not get admin access, then it would carry on running until something went wrong.

Sadly, with personal commitments right now I have little time, and even less money to put into it.
 
Sandy, do you have any contact with the people who would have registered the domain and/or paid for the hosting ?
As per my previous email, if the registrant will co-operate then the domain is retrievable (I'll pay for a years registration if needed), and if whoever pays (paid) for the hosting will co-operate then the hosting itself can be kept going (can't pay for that I'm afraid I have no job after Friday).
 
Hi Simon,

I've sent you a message which hopefully should help.

Technically I'm still an admin. I never was removed from the system!
 
Is there any way we can get back up of the forum via the hosting control panel - or the web forum admin page. I will register a new domain and host it - all we need are the files. @Big Sandy does the admin page allow to make a backup of the forum?

Andrew
 
I'm not sure how much work that'll be. I see that the server appears to be dedicated to the site and responds to other host names in the HTTP get, but when I load the page in a browser having setup hosts file entries to suit, it seems to throw a load of missing images for me. Not sure why, as they are absolute links to images.landrovernet.com which should be working as I have host file entries for the original domain name as well.
It all depends on how easy it is to tell vBulletin that the site URL has changed, and whether that's enough for all the embedded links to also get changed "on the fly". If it's not a simple change, then it's going to be a right PITA to run under a different domain name.
 
Sure would be nice to see it back again as said a vast amount of information in there.
{And i have a lot of my landy photos in there.}
Hope you guys can do something and thanks for trying.;)
 
Another refugee from landrovernet here!

IIRC I joined both LRN and LZ back in 2008, until now, I've not posted very much if anything on here.

Good to see some familiar faces on here, especially Big Sandy, you were greatly missed!
 
Just joined myself, it's taken me this long to get over the shell-shock and decide to join up here. Great to see so many familiar names: Nickjaxe, Land Raver, Cornish Rattler, Erubus, Iceman, Chris, Darren, Kernow and Sandy to name a few. Great to hear from you Sandy, you'll be pleased to hear that your nuts are doing fine and I tell them about you whenever they ask where they came from.
 
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