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  • Encode.ru unreachable forum

    From Nania Francesco@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 22 12:37:19 2019
    It would seem that the mythical Encode.ru forum cannot be reached in days. Does anyone know the reason?

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  • From abbas.hakan@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 23 04:44:22 2019
    22 Mayıs 2019 Çarşamba 22:37:21 UTC+3 tarihinde Nania Francesco yazdı:
    It would seem that the mythical Encode.ru forum cannot be reached in days. Does anyone know the reason?

    Hello, Nania. The domain name seems to have expired.

    WHOIS LOOKUP
    encode.ru is already registered*
    % By submitting a query to RIPN's Whois Service
    % you agree to abide by the following terms of use:
    % http://www.ripn.net/about/servpol.html#3.2 (in Russian)
    % http://www.ripn.net/about/en/servpol.html#3.2 (in English).

    domain: ENCODE.RU
    nserver: dnsproxy1.fm.nic.ru.
    nserver: dnsproxy2.fm.nic.ru.
    state: REGISTERED, DELEGATED, UNVERIFIED
    person: Private Person
    registrar: RU-CENTER-RU
    admin-contact: https://www.nic.ru/whois
    created: 2010-05-18T11:52:26Z
    paid-till: 2019-05-18T12:52:26Z
    free-date: 2019-06-18
    source: TCI

    Last updated on 2019-05-23T11:41:34Z

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  • From Shelwien@21:1/5 to Nania Francesco on Thu May 23 10:58:46 2019
    On Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 10:37:21 PM UTC+3, Nania Francesco wrote:
    It would seem that the mythical Encode.ru forum cannot be reached in days. Does anyone know the reason?

    Sorry, domain expired, and we need to catch webmaster to pay for it...
    or wait until it fully expires.

    Actually forum works, but to access it you need to add this line:
    78.46.93.39 encode.ru
    to hosts file.

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  • From dado023@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Shelwien on Fri May 24 11:48:12 2019
    On Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 7:58:48 PM UTC+2, Shelwien wrote:
    On Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 10:37:21 PM UTC+3, Nania Francesco wrote:
    It would seem that the mythical Encode.ru forum cannot be reached in days. Does anyone know the reason?

    Sorry, domain expired, and we need to catch webmaster to pay for it...
    or wait until it fully expires.

    Actually forum works, but to access it you need to add this line:
    78.46.93.39 encode.ru
    to hosts file.

    thats unfortunate....i was wondering what happened.
    I found this group by googling for encode.ru

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  • From Borneq@21:1/5 to dado023@gmail.com on Fri Jun 28 16:57:30 2019
    On 5/24/19 8:48 PM, dado023@gmail.com wrote:
    thats unfortunate....i was wondering what happened.
    I found this group by googling for encode.ru


    I have registered, but not received mail and can't contact with
    administrator.

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  • From michael.bennett@uconn.edu@21:1/5 to Shelwien on Wed Jul 17 09:08:29 2019
    On Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 1:58:48 PM UTC-4, Shelwien wrote:
    On Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 10:37:21 PM UTC+3, Nania Francesco wrote:
    It would seem that the mythical Encode.ru forum cannot be reached in days. Does anyone know the reason?

    Sorry, domain expired, and we need to catch webmaster to pay for it...
    or wait until it fully expires.

    Actually forum works, but to access it you need to add this line:
    78.46.93.39 encode.ru
    to hosts file.

    Looks like it's down again and has been for the last two days after being up for a while. What is a full sample URL that may leverage the site's IP to get around the DNS issue? I can't seem to get the syntax correct when trying 78.46.93.39

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  • From michael.bennett@uconn.edu@21:1/5 to michael...@uconn.edu on Wed Jul 17 09:19:05 2019
    On Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 12:08:31 PM UTC-4, michael...@uconn.edu wrote:
    On Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 1:58:48 PM UTC-4, Shelwien wrote:
    On Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 10:37:21 PM UTC+3, Nania Francesco wrote:
    It would seem that the mythical Encode.ru forum cannot be reached in days. Does anyone know the reason?

    Sorry, domain expired, and we need to catch webmaster to pay for it...
    or wait until it fully expires.

    Actually forum works, but to access it you need to add this line: 78.46.93.39 encode.ru
    to hosts file.

    Looks like it's down again and has been for the last two days after being up for a while. What is a full sample URL that may leverage the site's IP to get around the DNS issue? I can't seem to get the syntax correct when trying 78.46.93.39

    OK, I can't even ping 78.46.93.39. So, maybe the situation is just fubar?

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  • From Dan@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 17 13:24:57 2019
    Seems like like forum is unreachable again.

    It is a pity they don't take better care of it.

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  • From Shelwien@21:1/5 to Dan on Thu Jul 18 00:30:20 2019
    On Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 11:24:59 PM UTC+3, Dan wrote:
    Seems like like forum is unreachable again.

    Its the same issue really. The guy who hosted the forum disappeared in april 2019,
    we don't have control over domain name and hosting,
    so we had to find workarounds just to pay to resume the service.

    It is a pity they don't take better care of it.

    webmaster had been paying $80 per month for last 10 years or so
    just for the server, also did the php maintenance and server config (memcached etc).
    But now something happened to him, and we have to find workarounds.
    If you have any advices, I'm listening :)

    Good luck!
    - Shelwien

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  • From Dan@21:1/5 to Shelwien on Thu Jul 18 03:55:54 2019
    On Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 9:30:22 AM UTC+2, Shelwien wrote:
    On Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 11:24:59 PM UTC+3, Dan wrote:
    Seems like like forum is unreachable again.

    Its the same issue really. The guy who hosted the forum disappeared in april 2019,
    we don't have control over domain name and hosting,
    so we had to find workarounds just to pay to resume the service.

    It is a pity they don't take better care of it.

    webmaster had been paying $80 per month for last 10 years or so
    just for the server, also did the php maintenance and server config (memcached etc).
    But now something happened to him, and we have to find workarounds.
    If you have any advices, I'm listening :)

    Good luck!
    - Shelwien

    I see, now i understand better whole situation. Thank you.

    My first idea for a workaround would be to export(if possible) forum to backup location, and then to transfer it from vbulletin to any adequate forum such as phpbb or similar(to remove total licensing costs), use cloudflare/incapsula cdn to further
    reduce the costs and perhaps try to use shared webhosting in synergy with those.

    $80 a month is a lot, and considering how much his own effort and hard work went into it also high much higher value.

    Just my thoughts.....

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  • From michael.bennett@uconn.edu@21:1/5 to Dan on Thu Jul 18 04:23:38 2019
    On Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 6:55:55 AM UTC-4, Dan wrote:
    On Thursday, July 18, 2019 at 9:30:22 AM UTC+2, Shelwien wrote:
    On Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 11:24:59 PM UTC+3, Dan wrote:
    Seems like like forum is unreachable again.

    Its the same issue really. The guy who hosted the forum disappeared in april 2019,
    we don't have control over domain name and hosting,
    so we had to find workarounds just to pay to resume the service.

    It is a pity they don't take better care of it.

    webmaster had been paying $80 per month for last 10 years or so
    just for the server, also did the php maintenance and server config (memcached etc).
    But now something happened to him, and we have to find workarounds.
    If you have any advices, I'm listening :)

    Good luck!
    - Shelwien

    I see, now i understand better whole situation. Thank you.

    My first idea for a workaround would be to export(if possible) forum to backup location, and then to transfer it from vbulletin to any adequate forum such as phpbb or similar(to remove total licensing costs), use cloudflare/incapsula cdn to further
    reduce the costs and perhaps try to use shared webhosting in synergy with those.

    $80 a month is a lot, and considering how much his own effort and hard work went into it also high much higher value.

    Just my thoughts.....

    It looks like the site's been temporarily moved to https://encode.su/ and is currently up and running:)

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  • From Shelwien@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 18 05:37:37 2019
    transfer it from vbulletin to any adequate forum such as phpbb or similar
    (to remove total licensing costs)

    I have a VB4 license since https://encode.ru/threads/490-DMCA

    It looks like the site's been temporarily moved to https://encode.su/
    and is currently up and running:)

    https://encode.ru/threads/3148-ENCODE-RU-is-being-moved-to-ENCODE-SU

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