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[casiokingdom]

Earthforge is back!

Thanks Crimson. I greatly appreciate it.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

for how long earthforge is going to be up now?

[casiokingdom]

Crimson??

for how long earthforge is going to be up now?

If it isn't going to be up for long, then I'll need to start looking for a new host.

[huhn_m]

and I need to download my data ...

Btw. what if all the members with decent sites joined and bought a root server together?

We could share the costs. Root servers are available from 30€ a month in germay so if there were 10 people
each would have to pay 36€ a year what should be ok ...

[CrimsonCasio]

Earthforge will live for at least another year (its actually on its 3rd year now). did anyone have any problems with the renewal? nothing got messed up did it?

[Dream of Omnimaga]

sound nice, at least this should give ppl enough time to find new hosts.


About Epic Programming Studios we were starting wondering if it shouldnt be better to move somewhere else, because apparently most of the time some ppl cant even access the website at all and I noticed forums page execution time is over 0.12 seconds most of the time. Normally most forums loads at 0.01 or 0.02 seconds. Here is the topic about this:

http://www.revsoft.o...php?p=2376#2376

[huhn_m]

seems as if earthforge is gone ... or can you reach it? it is down for 5 days or so now.

[huhn_m]

Please check all links for earthforge links (I think it is easier for you) and mark them as temporarily down.

Earthforge seems to be gone for good.

I'm currently looking into hosting solutions so maybe we'll have new hosting up sooner or later ...

[Andy.Davies]

i can still access www.earthforge.com and www.crimsoncasio.co.nr

[huhn_m]

hm ... strange ...

I can't connect to either of them. I'm also unable to reach my site (mh-development.de) and the AlgebraFX site (both of them hosted at earthforge).

I also can't connect via FTP. A ping gives me the folowing:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\huhn_m>ping www.earthforge.com

Ping earthforge.com [72.9.244.226] mit 32 Bytes Daten:

Connection timed out.
Connection timed out.
Connection timed out.
Connection timed out.

Ping-Statistik for 72.9.244.226:
	Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% Loss),

I'm not behind a proxy and have not changed anything before since when I could still connect.
It is also not caused by my notebook or windows since Gentoo <{GNULINUX}> on my main machine is also
unable to connect.

Anyways. Since we must face the end of earthforge in the next year anyways I just ordered a vServer that
is quite affordable. So all who want to switch from the earthforge host may do so if they contact me via PM.
I think I'll have the server for at least 5 years (because the price can not change if I don't terminate the contract).

The server should be ready by wednesday if I get to fax the contract today.

[Andy.Davies]

well, i just tried again:

PING Results:

Timeout
173ms Responce
221ms Responce
116ms Responce

Browser Reults:

i can get to your page huhn
i can get to the main earthforge page
i can get to mine, but it got hacked, so i have just set it to redirect to my new site
i can get to crimsons site

the content of my old site will gradually move to StormBase.Net

[huhn_m]

this is strange indeed. I still can't reach earthforge and my site

and I also cant reach stormbase.net.

We sould wait and see if anyone else has these problems.
btw. my ISP is the german provider Starto (maybe someone else with strato could check back?)

[Andy.Davies]

huhn, can you access www.root12.co.uk or www.darthsquirrel.co.uk ? there are my friends site (root12 hosts mine and darthsquirrels)

[2072]

I can access Earthforge, that must be a routing problem with your ISP...

[huhn_m]

@andy: I can reach neither of them. So it seems to be a problem with my ISP

I'll try and contact them asap since this already happens to me since monday!

[Dream of Omnimaga]

i can go on it fine now. Can you access it from a proxy? This server seems to have the bad habit of banning everyone IP randomly for no reason, mine got banned twice last spring

[CrimsonCasio]

no problems getting to it here. did you fail to log in to something more than 3 times?

[huhn_m]

I don't know what this is.

And I could Kill my DSL provider since they didn't even yet respond to my request!
And I can't execute ping on my vServer (Says I need root rights though I am root )

So I can only wait and see ... they are still not reachable from either of my computers.

[2072]

NOTE: I've just merge the posts made in the link page topic with this one.

[huhn_m]

thanks. you're right. they were somewhat misplaced there

oh and btw, hosting is offered here.

On my vServer. You get an SSH accout, an FTP account, up to 50MB of storage space, unlimited bandwidth (well, virtually, the whole server is restricted to 50GB but I will cut you down when it reaches 45GB in order to guarantee fast operation of my sites ). Unlimited POP3 accounts.

Server is apache, php4 is installed, mysql is installed but currently used by my wiki, don't know if others can access it.

Server is Debian <{GNULINUX}> 3.1 (sarge)

There is enlightenment installed for easy access using the X11 tunnel.
(I couldn't test it for now since I screwed up my ATI drivers on my main machine )

So if you want it ... go ahead! post here and / or PM me.

Operation is guaranteed for the next 5 years (though not necessarily on the same server ... I might upgrade later).

If you want your own IP you have to pay me 1Euro / Month (since this is what my host wants )

Cu Huhn_m

[CrimsonCasio]

FYI to everyone still using earthforge, the domain is going to expire soon and at this time i have no intention of renewing it. I dont have the time to run upkeep (obviously). If there is anything on there you still need, i suggest getting it off before it becomes difficult.

[casiokingdom]

How long do we have?

[CrimsonCasio]

i actually mis-read the date, you have a few months (october), so no hurry.

[huhn_m]

my offer for free casio hosting is still valid.

You get an own ftp account (like with crimson).

[casiokingdom]

Since Earthforge will cease to exist after October, I've begun searching around for a new host. Does anyone know of any good/free/ad-free hosting available?

huhn_m, I've considered your offer, but your domain name is too long for my liking

[betoe]

Hi sean, long time no see you. If you find a nice and free webhosting, PM me please. I dont know but i think i need about 200 MB, it will be less because i will host my videos on youtube. I have never bought on internet, i will pay a hosting only if i find one here in Tijuana.

I need a hosting too, but i doubt i can do a casio related site only, i have few time for that and my classpad its full of dust this year. If i see i can do the casio site i will ask you huhn_m.

[The_AFX_Master]

Since Earthforge will cease to exist after October, I've begun searching around for a new host. Does anyone

The Mohammed's site (algebrafx2.earthforge.com), will shut down???

[casiokingdom]

Hi sean, long time no see you. If you find a nice and free webhosting, PM me please

Hi Betoe,
What happenned to your http://betoe.imgoingtobed.com website? When did it stop working?
I will tell you whenever I find a good free host. I just can't find one yet.

The Mohammed's site (algebrafx2.earthforge.com), will shut down???

Sadly yes. All earthforge sites will shut down. I still don't understand why Crimson suddenly disappeared from the 'Casio world'... after years of loyal service

===EDIT===
http://110mb.com
mySQL, php4, 2000MB space, 10GB Bandwith, NO ADS.

I knew about this site a few months ago, but they added ads to member pages soon after. They have recently made the decision to never put ads on their sites again.

SIGN UP NOW!

[betoe]

Thanks pal!

Imgoingbed isnt working since february of this year. Ross told me about some weeks before the server shutdown so i did a backup. But i dont know if he will set up the server again. I contacted him via ICQ but i had no see him in the last 3 weeks, since i have an internet connection again.

Hope that good earthforge sites (like Mohamed ones) could be hosted on huhn_m hosting.

[casiokingdom]

You are most welcome, Betoe

I think all earthforge sites should consider moving host now so that they have time to leave a message on their current site, ie. "This website has moved to ..."
It will make sure that they don't lose all their visitors.

110mb seems like a great host. The admins are working very hard for members. I recently asked for .cat and .g1r files to be allowed, and they did in a day.

[betoe]

I could recommend the same as casiokingdom. There is a forum for the site, and if you ask for something as ck said, they give you a response very fastly. Its tons better that the average paid webhosting.

[huhn_m]

huhn_m, I've considered your offer, but your domain name is too long for my liking

hm ... I also own the domains mh-dev.com, mh-development.de/.net/.info/.com

you can choose freely where to put the redirection. No problem. But you must considder that I only have
1GB storage on the server and 50GB traffic / month. else it is no problem. If I got the money I might upgrade
to a 10GB storage with 500GB traffic but I don't know yet

Hope that good earthforge sites (like Mohamed ones) could be hosted on huhn_m hosting.

you are always welcome. You get ftp and ssh access. But I can (due to the storage limit of the vServer) only
allow casio related sites to be hosted. I won't check the site contents of course unless the use too much bandwidth or storage. Hosting on my servers is free for forum members and will always be (I should always be able to pay the ~40? / year the server costs atm.)

The only thing is, that if the traffic hits 45GB I might switch of sites for the rest of the month for the ones using the most traffic. Else 1GB would cost me 0,50? extra.

[casiokingdom]

Ok, thanks for the offer huhn_m, but I've already changed host. My new site is already up and running.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

R.I.P Earthforge

It is gone now.

Btw anyone has the new URL of the sites that were hosted here (the ones that were still maintained and that moved?)