This week apart from dealing with what felt like flu I was reminded of a number of experiences I had in the past on this online life where an individual owns a website and leaves it still running until one day it ceases to.
In this particular instance the issue revolves around the death of the owner and things such as the failure to transfer that or there being a plan too pay any hosting related costs such as quarterly bills as it is rare for them to be set up as group concerns with a appointed successor who would take that responsibility one.
What happens is after say the bill isn't paid, the host suspends the site with a "contact us" banner overlaid and when that happened with two sites because nothing was set up, it wasn't that the domain was lost, so was all the hosting.
They became ex-sites.
Potentially it was looking late Wednesday a site I've been at since 2011 was going that way but it seems a payment was made in time so the bill has been settled although other issues such as outdated and hard to transfer into newer site software do need to be addressed in the near future even if the current content is just kept in a read only mode for posterity.
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