Saturday, February 23, 2013

How do you know if a website is dead?

Hard one this: clearly it is not always possible to keep a website going indefinitely especially where it is a personally run site. Life has a habit of getting in the way.

But it is sad when a site just seems to vanish overnight.

www.douglashenshall.com has been going for a while now - I noted last week that the sub-site for Tena Stivcic (the gorgeously lucky Mrs Henshall) had took over the domain and tracking back to the main site for Douglas Henshall just brought up either the front page for Tena instead (on the same URL) or the dreaded '404 not found' message...

I left it for the week - perhaps site maintenance was going on?  Instead, today I find the site is down completely.

Oh dear: I do hope it gets rejuvenated...

3 comments:

JoeinVegas said...

Well L, perhaps you can start up a DH fan site?

Lisa Rullsenberg said...

Oh Joe there's a whole big history about that topic... and I wish I had the time. Just very sad the site seems to have vanished.

JoeinVegas said...

Sometimes you can tell a site is dead if there have been no posts for almost a month.