DRC May Be Nearing The End.....
- Thread starter HecticArt
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Channel98
Don't yell or hit.
At 11:10 this morning (Pacific time), the "Account Suspended" message was briefly replaced with this:
https://siriusbuzz.com/forum/ might have a temporary problem or it could have moved.
The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments."
SiriusBuzz is now back – but for how long? And now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to try to figure out what a "No Reason Phrase" is.
"Looks like there’s a problem with this site.
Error code: 525 No Reason Phrase.https://siriusbuzz.com/forum/ might have a temporary problem or it could have moved.
The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments."
SiriusBuzz is now back – but for how long? And now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to try to figure out what a "No Reason Phrase" is.
Channel98
Don't yell or hit.
If DRC has to find a new hosting service, there are several low-cost providers including Hostinger, Namecheap, IONOS, Bluehost, Dreamhost and Hustly – but the majority are examples of the adage "You get what you pay for." There is also a Hustly in the UK but it's a seller of sunglasses. This is the hosting service:
hustly.website
Hustly | Modern Fast WordPress Hosting
Premium affordable WordPress hosting. Beginner friendly. 1-Click launch & stage. Loads fast - Nginx & CDN. Advanced admin panel. For individuals and agencies.
hustly.website
JHDK
Release Robin's Bra
I want this site to remain just like it is. To be clear.
But there must be some way you can pay for a message board URL where the company selling it does all the work to keep it up and you just pay a fee for that convenience.
HecticArt
Administrator
That's where it all gets expensive, and I'm certain that we're not going to be able to sustain that by crowd-funding.
Whoever would take on the responsibility of organizing that would also be putting up the advance money and dealing with forum renewal schedules, and domain renewals.
I've got too much going on to deal with more than the basic admin stuff.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
I hear Infowars.com is available.
JHDK
Release Robin's Bra
That's just means paying bills on time right? That's easy enough.
You're on a roll this evening. Two good ones in the Canadian News thread and this.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
Sirius Buzz gets me a 525. SSL Handashake failure:
Visit cloudflare.com for more information.
2025-06-17 03:20:40 UTC
Looks to me like their certs have expired.
SSL handshake failed Error code 525
Visit cloudflare.com for more information.
2025-06-17 03:20:40 UTC
Looks to me like their certs have expired.
Jon
Well-Known Member
In much the same way 'MySpace' is still considered Social Media, although I think MySpace generates more traffic.
Channel98
Don't yell or hit.
Today I discovered that all the posts made on Sirius Buzz from August 7 to August 25 – from myself, Listener, Atypical and several other members – have been removed. I have no idea why or how – and I can't send a private message to the moderator because his mailbox is full. The few times when one of my posts on DRC has been removed, a moderator explained the reason. On Sirius Buzz, 19 days of posts vanished without explanation: obituaries, political stories, sports stories, music news, business news, etc. Very strange.
HecticArt
Administrator
Sorry to say that our days are indeed coming to a close in the near future.
I was able to talk to Taylor a few days ago about our fate.
Even though he hasn't visited the DRC in several years, he's been paying the bills for us and hasn't really minded it. (Call it old times sake or whatever.)
It's not really about the money, but more that it's become a hassle for him. He keeps getting emails from some loon that got banned for registering multiple accounts, and all kinds of other bogus messages.
He doesn't have his tech guy that took care of the server side of things for us to help with transferring accounts and whatnot either.
Our call got cut short, so I didn't get all of the answers, but it's clear that we need to find a new home on our own and pretty soon.
The last thing that he said was that he'll just let the current payments run out and not renew. I've been meaning to check back in with him, but I've been swamped lately.
From my side, I spend a lot of my time here screening spammers and foreign web traffic.
Only 5 of the last 100 people that have joined weren't from Russia, China, India, Vietnam, or the like.
We get so many bogus new accounts that I've had to shut down registrations.
With all of those things in consideration, and knowing that (IMHO) we don't have a chance at crowd funding for more than a few months before someone gets stuck footing the bill on their own, we're better off making other plans.
So......either we find another forum fast, someone starts up one of those free forums, or we say goodbye. Aaron and I could continue to moderate a new site, but neither of us can handle the server side of things. (Neither of us will moderate a forum with politics.)
It seems to me that there must be a couple of music or pop-culture forums that have decent activity. We really don't need the satellite component anymore, but I'd think that those conversations would fit in nicely on one of those forums.
I was able to talk to Taylor a few days ago about our fate.
Even though he hasn't visited the DRC in several years, he's been paying the bills for us and hasn't really minded it. (Call it old times sake or whatever.)
It's not really about the money, but more that it's become a hassle for him. He keeps getting emails from some loon that got banned for registering multiple accounts, and all kinds of other bogus messages.
He doesn't have his tech guy that took care of the server side of things for us to help with transferring accounts and whatnot either.
Our call got cut short, so I didn't get all of the answers, but it's clear that we need to find a new home on our own and pretty soon.
The last thing that he said was that he'll just let the current payments run out and not renew. I've been meaning to check back in with him, but I've been swamped lately.
From my side, I spend a lot of my time here screening spammers and foreign web traffic.
Only 5 of the last 100 people that have joined weren't from Russia, China, India, Vietnam, or the like.
We get so many bogus new accounts that I've had to shut down registrations.
With all of those things in consideration, and knowing that (IMHO) we don't have a chance at crowd funding for more than a few months before someone gets stuck footing the bill on their own, we're better off making other plans.
So......either we find another forum fast, someone starts up one of those free forums, or we say goodbye. Aaron and I could continue to moderate a new site, but neither of us can handle the server side of things. (Neither of us will moderate a forum with politics.)
It seems to me that there must be a couple of music or pop-culture forums that have decent activity. We really don't need the satellite component anymore, but I'd think that those conversations would fit in nicely on one of those forums.
Channel98
Don't yell or hit.
Could we move Digital Radio Central to the WordPress web content management system? We can get a basic site and domain name for $10-$20 a year and basic shared hosting for $3-$10 a month. We – yeah, I said "we' – could also talk with Charles LaRocca about merging SiriusBuzz and DRC.
