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Paul Barden's old site gone or just me?

ann beck 8a ruralish WA

last year

I have been trying to check Paul Barden's old site https://tlcfocus.com/paulbarden/ and keep getting no where. I would hate to lose that valuable info. I often refer people to the propagation page in particular. Is it still working?

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bayarea_girl_z10a_ca

last year

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Thank you Paul. My website‘s hosting plan had a renewal recently, and the hosting company increased the price to more than I think as a reasonable rate so I cancelled my hosting plan with them and will look for a different hosting company. I saved all the files and will move them to a new hosting company soon. The URL will stay the same. This is all behind the scene. I have been busy with urgent tasks at work so I haven’t had a chance to look at different hosting companies. I will update here once I have every set up :) Helen

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Mischievous Magpie (CO 5b)
last year
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I think there was a post about this last year, I'll try to find. Edit, oh 3 years ago. Idk if this is the sits you meant https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5563171/i-regret-to-annouce
Brandon Garner
last year
It isn’t working for me either, so you aren’t the only one. hopefully it is just a glitch and will be back sooner than later
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I have had quite a few correctly named roses from RVRs too, Frances. I'm hoping your Etienne is correct. Umbra does appear to be sold out and the rose they sent us was located right before the rose we wanted. My rose had an Umbra label with an OK written in magic marker on it. I never had seen that before. When I first moved here, I went over there to pick up a Marianne and bought another 25 or so roses I wanted by wandering through the bands sorted alphabetically on platforms/tables. I really think the lovely owner's age is a factor here. She has Scott now trying to get things organized. They really don't allow wandering through like I did that first time. An employee is sent back to find the rose for us and possibly they are not all fanatics like we are. I seem to have gotten great mislabels for the most part. They also get shipments in from a grower or growers I've seen on the grounds too, that have nametags in the little pots. They were offloaded close to the entry. I guess it has been too much to handle at times.
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fig_insanity Z7b E TN
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The original site is no more. It was simply too expensive and Paul no longer added to it. With his permission, a kind forum member here (I can't remember who, but eternal thanks go out) archived every page and stored them on their server, and eventually the Wayback Machine. You can access them at:

ARCHIVED "Old Garden Roses and Beyond"

Click the site name in the center of the white banner.
susan9santabarbara
last year
I just checked the link I had saved from the discussion last year, and it sent me to a generic Go Daddy page. Fig's link above worked fine, so I re-bookmarked it just now. It was BayAreaGirl who fixed it back then.
portlandmysteryrose
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fig_insanity Z7b E TN
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I think the tlcfocus site was the personal site of BayAreaGirl. Now that everything is on the Wayback machine, she may have let the site name go back into the public domain. I hope there's nothing more serious going on with her.
portlandmysteryrose
last year
Oh! I just caught the new link. Trying it out…..

Yay! Thank you, John!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
User
last year
I spoke with Helen a couple days ago, and she informed me that her web hosting service had kinda yanked the rug out from under her, asking for much more money than she'd expected to continue hosting her stuff (my site included). I got the impression she's looking for a more affordable option, but I don't know when (or if) this will happen.

Its such a shame that hosting a few kb of files for a web site has become so expensive. That's why I gave up paying for the site (It cost me over $300 a year by the time I stopped paying).

Anyway, perhaps Helen will chime in at some point to share more information.
User
last year
Thank you for safeguarding those files, Helen! your efforts are greatly appreciated
ann beck 8a ruralish WA
Original Author
last year
Thank You all so much!!! The wayback link works. I can still send people to you site for propagation notes and a number of them have become fans for your roses Paul!
portlandmysteryrose
last year
Thank you SO much, Helen and Paul! Carol

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