On 09/12/15 02:58, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 11:15:50AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> Old site: h t t p : / / u s e r s . w o w w a y . c o m / ~ z l i n u >> x m a n / >> >> New site: http://www.stevesdebianstuff.org/ >> >> If you have bookmarks set for the old site you should update your >> bookmarks. Some pages from the old site are not on the new site >> because I judged them to be obsolete. > > To which, the venerable W3C replied "Cool URIs don't change": > http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html The W3C clearly haven't considered the case of a hosting provider pulling the plug on a customer. The same happened to countless Geocities users years ago. I had to change uRLs myself just recently. I had my own hosting, but used a free dynamic DNS service (yi.org) to provide the hostname. That was set up years ago when I had no income and was at university. They started acting up this year, with failed DNS resolution issues, and a management site that was really misbehaving badly. I now earn an income, so I figured it was high time for me to move. Hence the new domain. In my case, I was fortunate the old domain still intermittently worked (and still does work), and so I was able to put the redirects in place. Had yi.org just folded altogether however, I'd be stuck in the same way that Stephen was. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
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