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My feelings are that EWP is gone for good.   It'd be nice to know for sure.

Not only is the domain expired, but the server it was hosted on (69.60.116.253) is not pinging, and no longer serving up web pages.

XW

Black Rose wrote:

It was down for quite a while last year before Julian was prodded enough to renew the domain, wasn't it?  But if it really is gone for good, I sincerely hope he warned people first.  But knowing Julian I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't bother to have the courtesy to inform the authors that they needed to find a new home.

Greetings

Nope, no warning to the authors who still had stories on EWP nor any type of heads up to readers. 

Not exactly the best in goodwill building department

Last edited by WarLord (2008-12-13 04:29:34)

Gee, what happened to his hundreds of dollars in donations every month?

And unless he's talking hosting fees, he's feeding you a load of crap.  Domain registration costs less than $10 a year.  Hosting costs vary widely, and I seem to recall they were using a smaller hosting service, with a semi-private server, and it was far more expensive than it needed to be.  You guys managed to pay for two full years of hosting and an extra year of domain registration in a single month of donations here, so it's really not all THAT hard to do...

That is, if you're competent and take an active interest in the community you're hosting, which kind of rules Julian out...

Eric

PS: Before anyone says it:  Yes, it WILL cost him more than $10 to get the domain back NOW.  But his domain registrar would have contacted him ages ago to let him know that the domain was going to expire, so he had plenty of time to pay the normal price for it.

Why the hell won't you let this dead horse DIE?  The site was dead when *I* gave it up three years ago.  It has only gone downhill since then.  There is a time when you have to admit that the project doesn't work, and just let go.

Eric

Everyone who writes me asking where to go to read my stories I've been referring here.  That's why I'm hurrying to post MG 1 here without the re-editing, so I can get 2 and 3 posted.  Some people just can't afford to get on SOL, and besides, it doesn't have a forum like here.  Now, if we could just get more people using the forum...

i apologize eric but i dont belive that ewp is "dead" with a good admin ( no offence intended toward eric) and somone that wants to put work into it, it could become a good site again. also there are many authors that no longer post at all and i still liked        re reading there stories.  if i have offended anyone by expressing the opinion that i would like to TRY to make it work then im sorry. i enjoy being able to switch from site to site  and that was still a main site i liked to visit. have a good day

The only way EWP could become a "good site again" is for it to not be the site it was, which would mean it was a new site, so why bother with the old one?

The infrastructure at EWP was already breaking down... Authors have told me they were having difficulties even posting stories.  This is not surprising, since the infrastructure needed revamping on the day *I* left, and Julian et al never did get a new version up.

As to the old, non-posting authors...  well, you should have saved a copy of them to your hard drive.  I don't think I have a copy of my old EWP stuff, and I wouldn't have the authority to redistribute any of it, anyway.

No offense taken if you think I'm not a good admin... no one makes you come here...

Eric

At least you get to look at the cute chick with the backpack now...

Eric

I wouldn't just redirect to here.  But I have considered re-registering it and explaining to visitors where it went, rather than people having to wonder.

But that would kinda be up to you guys, since you'd have to pay for it.  My current living situation is turning out to be more expensive than anticipated, so I don't know how much spending money I'll have.

Eric

I don't know what you're talking about as far as $1 / mo. goes, there's nothing on their website about it...

But we're not talking about hosting here.  The web hosting I've already got is capable of handling multiple domain names.  We're talking about registering a domain... something that is only done by years, not by months.  The actual cost is between $9 and $10 a year per domain name.  (Hey, I didn't say you'd have to pay a LOT, now did I?    )

Eric

Okay, I see your confusion now.

Keep in mind, when a registrar says ".com domain registration"... they mean, literally domains ending in .com.  If you look on the same page, .org registration has actually increased in price (I didn't know this until I just looked) to $15 a year plus ICANN fee (which has been 20¢ up till now... not sure if it has changed...)

So, registering ewpub.org will cost $15 if we grab it after it is available.  It will cost $19 to put it on "backorder", which is basically a process whereby GoDaddy would watch for that domain to become available and grab it as quickly as they could.

Just thought I'd clarify all that.

Eric

When I first started writing, I appreciated the opportunity to be able to post and get actual feedback (that wasn't anonymous) on ewp. Thankfully I was given the chance to move when Eric moved. I think it is kind of lousy to just drop a site without warning to the authors and readers that frequent the site, but c'est la vie. I think ewp should be allowed to die, even in the undignified way it appears to have taken. I am more than happy to have my meager contributions posted on this site.