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Re: Getting currency rates



Use a paid service. That's the problem with web stuff like that. Like
anything else, money is a motivator. A company that's being paid to
provide a service is more likely to have a reliable service.

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Adam West <adamster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   This situation could always happen again.
>
>   What sort of Message should I monitor for in the CL? in case it
>   aborts, then I can take action or run a backup site.
>
>   Thanks.
>   Adam
>   ----- Original Message ----
>   From: Adam West <adamster@xxxxxxxxx>
>   To: HTTPAPI and FTPAPI Projects <ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 2:01:20 PM
>   Subject: Re: Getting currency rates
>   Thank you, Scott. It does appear that it is back up. This raises the
>   question what do other places do for a backup to such a foreign
>   currency site? if it does down for whatever reason.
>
>   Does any web site feed work with that code?
>   --- On Thu, 8/28/08, Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>     From: Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Subject: Re: Getting currency rates
>     To: "HTTPAPI and FTPAPI Projects" <ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 4:29 PM
> I did some looking around...
>
> [1]xurrency.com's web site is down, but their domain name is not expired.
>
> It appears that the site is hosted by [2]http://www.hostgator.com -- which
> is a company that provides web servers for anyone to use.  You pay them,
> and they provide you a web server that you can use to host your web site.
>
> It appears that [3]hostgator.com has suspended xurrency.com's service.
> Hard to say why -- either xurrency.com is in the progress of moving to a
> new site, or they stopped paying hostgator, or they broke some of
> hostgator's usage rules...  hard to know.
>
> At any rate, this is not a problem with HTTPAPI or your program.
>
>
> Adam West wrote:
>>    OK when I try to go that web site I get that it's a suspended
> account
>>    or something.
>>
>>
>>    so either they are down or we did't pay the fee to them.
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> References
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>   1. http://xurrency.com/
>   2. http://www.hostgator.com/
>   3. http://hostgator.com/
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