Bern Posted April 17, 2016 Report Share Posted April 17, 2016 1. Our apologies if you have faced any problems accessing BW through the url: blowingwind.org for the past two days. Our DNS auto renewal failed without any of the admins noticing (we were travelling) and we had to manually renew the domain today. 2. How this may affect you: Visitors who go to www.blowingwind.org may see a landing page instead of the BW website due to the expired domain. Emails routing through blowingwind.org were also stuck as a result. You are not affected by 1 if you have already started to visit BW from: https://www.blowingwind.io. 3. The DNS may take some time to propagate. If you have any problems, please clear your DNS cache by following the instructions here - https://www.whatsmydns.net/flush-dns.html 4. Our apologies again. Cheers, Bern HendryTan and Phil 2 Join the official BW Telegram Group Chat: https://bit.ly/frmbw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted April 17, 2016 Report Share Posted April 17, 2016 I saw that yesterday. Bern and all mods, don't worry, you are doing a splendid job. Thanks and congrats, once more! Bern 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathblade88 Posted April 17, 2016 Report Share Posted April 17, 2016 Btw, what is the diff between .org and .io domain ? Accessing via .org will redirect to .io So in essence there isn't any real diff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bern Posted April 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2016 1 hour ago, deathblade88 said: Btw, what is the diff between .org and .io domain ? Accessing via .org will redirect to .io So in essence there isn't any real diff. Yes, you have noted correctly. The .org domain redirects to our current website at blowingwind.io because of a migration at the end of last year. To minimize any disruptions to our readers we have kept the .org domain for backwards compatibility. Join the official BW Telegram Group Chat: https://bit.ly/frmbw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathblade88 Posted April 17, 2016 Report Share Posted April 17, 2016 Hmmm…… Thanks for the clarification @Bern. By now, I think most sld be aware of the change and comfortable with it. Was wondering the money spent on mantaining the old domain could just be put to better use elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HendryTan Posted April 17, 2016 Report Share Posted April 17, 2016 Thanks for the suggestion to deprecate blowingwind.org to save money . We are keeping this for a few reasons: 1. Some non tech savvy users depend on old bookmarks and links to reach our forum. These still show blowingwind.org and is beyond our reach to re-point it to the new site except by the "redirect". 2. Secondly it is the smtp email sever . Historically at Blowingwind.org,we decided NOT to do our own email smtp servers and instead used Google Gmail Smtp services to send email and notifications. This saved us a lot of email spam policing and bounced mail issue as Google does it well. In December 2015, we tried to sign up Google smtp email services for blowingwind.io, but Google now charge$ for such services for new "domains signup" . We had to fall back on blowingwind.org to send emails, which means we need to keep blowingwind.org. 3. Not beautiful but as long as it still works for us. Cheers ! Hendry Tan Admin cum Moderator Bern, deathblade88 and Phil 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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