General Post

📣 Introducing the Elite Stream Plan! 🎶

📣 Introducing the Elite Stream Plan! 🎶

Attention DJs, clubs, and broadcasters in Second Life: Get ready to elevate your streams to the ultimate level with our brand-new Elite Stream Plan! 🚀

🎧 What’s Included in the Elite Stream Plan?

  • Crystal-Clear Sound: Up to 320kbps bitrate for unmatched audio quality.
  • Massive Listener Capacity: Support for up to 2000 listeners—perfect for high-traffic events and packed clubs!
  • Unmetered Bandwidth: Stream without limits or interruptions.
  • Free Custom URL: Make your stream professional and memorable with a personalized URL.
  • AutoDJ Feature: Seamless, hands-free streaming with 20GB of included storage for your tracks, ads, and playlists.

Who’s It For?

The Elite Stream Plan is perfect for:
🎵 DJs looking to deliver top-tier sound quality.
🎤 Clubs hosting large-scale events or concerts.
📻 Broadcasters aiming for a professional, high-capacity stream.

💰 Pricing

  • Weekly: L$1,200
  • Yearly: L$43,200 (with 3 months free!)
  • RL Monthly: $25.00 USD / Yearly: $225 (with 3 months free!)
  • Upgrade just the to the bitrate to any plan: L$300 per week additional

🔥 Why Choose the Elite Stream Plan?

  • Premium Sound: Impress your audience with studio-quality audio.
  • Scalability: Host large crowds without worrying about bitrate limits (except for AutoDJ functions as that is limited by the software to 128kbps automatically.
  • Easy to Manage: AutoDJ and storage make setup a breeze.
  • Professional Branding: Your custom URL sets you apart. By request, just reach out!

📩 Ready to Upgrade? Contact LustyLexxi Larimore in-world if you’d like to upgrade (see how upgrades work by going to this page )🎉Otherwise you can just rent a new stream as they are ready to rent at our  inworld office.

Let’s take your Second Life streams to the Elite level! 🌟

*Be sure to read our terms of service before purchasing and/or upgrading.

#SecondLife #DJPlan #EliteStream #UnmatchedQuality #SecondLifeBroadcasting

November 29, 2024 by
Current Sales

“Gobble Up the Savings” Sales Promotion (Nov 2024)

Dates: November 24, 2024 (Thanksgiving) – November 30, 2024 (End of the Week)

Feast on Deals for Your Stream! The best savings are served fresh this Thanksgiving!

TO REDEEM ANY PROMOTION YOU MUST CONTACT LUSTYLEXXI LARIMORE DIRECTLY! DO NOT RENEW YOUR STREAM BEFORE GETTING THE GO AHEAD FROM ME 🙂 NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON WILL BE GRANTED!

NO OFFERS CAN BE COMBINED, Sorry.

Contact me if you need any help, clarification, etc.
Please note: I will be unavailable to redeem sales on Thanksgiving (Nov 28, 2024) as I will be with family and that time is dedicated to them. I will resume the next day!

  • Offer 1:
    • Sign up OR upgrade for any yearly plan and receive an extra 3 months free
    • Includes a bonus storage upgrade:
      • RADIO PLAN / 5GB VIP License → 10GB (normally 5GB)
      • CLUB PLAN / 10GB VIP License→ 15GB (normally 10GB)

Black Friday Flash Sale

  • Offer 2:
    • 50% off payments for any plan paid new customers & renewals for 3 months then regular price thereafter.

Renewal Discount Promos

1. 3-Month Renewal Discount

  • Offer:
    • Renew for 3 months and get 10% off the total price.
  • Examples / this goes for all of our plans including VIP licenses:
    • BUDGET PLAN:
      • Regular: L$3,600 / $15USD
      • Discounted: L$3,240 / $13.50USD
    • RADIO PLAN:
      • Regular: L$7,200 / $30
      • Discounted: L$6,480 / $27

2. 6-Month Renewal Discount

  • Offer:
    • Renew for 6 months and get 15% off the total price.
  • Examples / this goes for all of our plans including VIP licenses:
    • BUDGET DJ PLAN:
      • Regular: L$7,200 / $30
      • Discounted: L$6,120 / $25.50
    • RADIO PLAN:
      • Regular: L$14,400 / $60
      • Discounted: L$12,240 / $51

3. 12-Month (Yearly) Renewal Discount

  • Offer:
    • Renew for 12 months and get 20% off the total price.
  • Examples / this goes for all of our plans including VIP licenses:
    • BUDGET DJ PLAN:
      • Regular: L$14,400 / $60
      • Discounted: L$11,520 / $48
    • RADIO PLAN:
      • Regular: L$28,800 / $120
      • Discounted: L$23,040 / $96

4. Pay for 4 Weeks, Get 1 Free

  • Offer:
    • Pay for any 4 weeks in advance and get 1 additional week free.
  • Examples / this goes for all of our plans including VIP licenses:
    • BUDGET DJ PLAN:
      • Pay: L$1,200 / $20 for 4 weeks.
      • Get: An extra week worth L$300 / $5 for free.

5. Pay for 10 Weeks, Get 2 Free

  • Offer:
    • Pay for any 10 weeks in advance and get 2 additional weeks free.
  • Examples / this goes for all of our plans including VIP licenses:
    • RADIO PLAN:
      • Pay: L$6,000 / $50 for 10 weeks.
      • Get: An extra 2 weeks worth L$1,200 / $10 for free.

6: Pay for 2 Years, Get 6 Months Free

  • Offer:

Renew for 2 years (24 months) and receive 6 months free

That is all the deals we have for this month. New fresh deals for Xmas will be posted in December 🙂

November 23, 2024 by
General Post

*UPDATED* Web Hosting: Price Change effective Friday, November 1st, 2024

We would like to inform you that cPanel has announced another price increase this year. Consequently, we will also need to adjust our pricing to reflect these changes.

What’s Changing:

  • Base Service Price:
    Web Hosting services with the primary domain hostcrate.host will increase by $7.00 USD monthly on each plan offered. If you are on a yearly plan, the changes will not take place UNTIL time for your renewal.

If you do not have web hosting services with Hostcrate, this will not apply to you *but* there may be price changes coming for streaming services. This depends on the server pricing for a new datacenter to which I am still seeking to find a better place. We *may* keep the current datacenter (at least 1 server) but this will depend on customers who wish to stay with the current datacenter. A notice / post will be sent out once I know.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding these changes, feel free to reach out. Thank you for your understanding and ongoing support. We greatly appreciate it!!!

October 9, 2024 by
General Post

New Server Testing

New Server Testing
Sun, Sep 01 2024 11:35:38 AM PDT

I have a new server at a different datacenter so if anyone is willing to spend some time on giving it a good test, please send me a message and I’ll shoot you over an account to test out.
This datacenter is in New York & not Dallas in case anyone was wondering the server location. Will be testing this server for at least a few weeks (we have a month on it). If it goes well, it’ll be available for anyone who wants to switch to it.

Thank you
LustyLexxi Larimore

September 1, 2024 by
General Post, Outages/Network Issues

[FINAL UPDATE] We’re down – This post will be for updates

Update 8/31/2024 @ 4:35PM SLT / 7:35PM EST:  The servers are stable and back online. The datacenter was under a heavy ddos attack which caused the issues. Everything should be good now as they mitigated the incident. Thank you again for your understanding & patience. –Lexxi

 

Update 8/31/2024 @ 11:33AM SLT / 2:33PM EST: The servers are up ** BUT ** they are laggy. So I wouldn’t recommend streaming on them currently. I am still awaiting for them to give a go ahead and everything is fixed by the datacenter. –Lexxi

 

Update 8/31/2024 @ 10:05AMSLT / 1:04PM EST: Im so sorry, they gave an all clear but the servers are down again. I am keeping an eye out and will keep you posted here on this page.

 

Update 8/31/2024 @ 9:07AMSLT / 12:07PM EST:

Servers are back online. The issue was a DDoS attack on the network which brought them down. I greatly apologize for the issues. I am looking into another datacenter to offer backups, etc. I will be looking for people to beta test new servers once I get them. Look for that notice here on this site. Thank you for your understanding & patience. I very much appreciate it more than you know. –Lexxi

 

We’re down. I’m m so sorry. I just woke up. It’s not you, it’s us. I put in an emergency ticket and am waiting for a response. Will keep everyone posted. I’ll be online shortly. –Lexxi

August 31, 2024 by
General Post

Heads up: Please read

Heads up: Please read
Mon, Aug 05 2024 10:19:52 AM PDT

Hiya! Just an advance notice that I will be away & mostly unavailable from Oct 20, 2024 – Oct 27, 2024. I will only be available for emergencies like servers/services being down. I will bring my laptop but won’t be on it unless I *need* to be for the above reasons. Please understand that this time will be spent with my dad (he is sick) & friends. I have an amazing CSR, Kirana Rawley, who will be able to reach me if necessary & help while I’m away.

Thank you
LustyLexxi Larimore

(Sorry, no take backs as the plane tickets have been booked lol)

August 5, 2024 by
General Post

Overdue Streams

Overdue Streams
Mon, Jul 22 2024 8:24:35 PM PDT

Reminders have been sent. I’ve been a bit overwhelmed so I haven’t done terminations in a bit. But I will be doing stream terminations tomorrow, July 23rd of any streams that are in overdue status. No further reminders will be sent. I’d like to politely add that I’ll no longer chase you, please if you wish to keep your stream please renew when you see your reminders from our bot or check your stream for it’s renewal date as it gives you a precise day & time for renewing.

Thank you
LustyLexxi Larimore

July 22, 2024 by
General Post, Maintenance Notices

Upcoming Scheduled Maintenance (July 2024)

Our website, hostcrate.stream /news.hostcrate.stream and our webhosting services we provide (this is SEPARATE from our streams) will be undergoing an update maintenance to CloudLinux 8 on July 28th starting at 10 PM Eastern Time until 2 AM Eastern Time given that everything goes as planned. While services may not be fully unavailable during the whole maintenance window – there will be long periods during the maintenance window when the servers are unresponsive so don’t be alarmed. We will keep you all posted via our Facebook page, SL Group notices, and in our Discord. Direct any questions to me, LustyLexxi Larimore

Again, this won’t affect streams as those are on completely separate servers. This only affects our website and our webhosting services (if you have webhosting with us).

Thank you,
LustyLexxi Larimore

July 18, 2024 by
General Post, Maintenance Notices, Updates

Upcoming Maintenance: June 26th, 2024

Our website hosting provider for hostcrate.stream will updating the operating system on June 26th, 2024. They are scheduling downtime on June 26th, 2024 starting at 10PM EST (7PM SLT) until 2AM EST (11PM SLT). They expect the upgrade only to take approximately 2 hours, so they are scheduling a longer window just in case things don’t go as expected. ** THIS MAINTENANCE WON’T AFFECT STREAMS/STREAMING SERVICES** as our website is hosted outside our streaming servers specifically for reasons such as these or if our streams are down but we can keep you informed with our website.

To be specific:

Our website provider currently uses CloudLinux 7 and that reaches it’s End of Life [EoL] on July 1, 2024, so no further security updates or patches will be available after that date. Additionally, cPanel has stopped providing updates for CloudLinux 7, keeping us on a slightly older version lacking some of the newer features they’ve released recently.

This maintenance we will be upgrading to CloudLinux 8 which reaches its End of Life [EoL] on May 31, 2029, so they do not anticipate having to perform this kind of maintenance again for the next 5 years. They would love to go ahead and move to CloudLinux 9, however, cPanel’s support for CloudLinux 9 is experimental and not recommended for production environments.

While services will not be unavailable during the whole maintenance window – there will be long periods during the maintenance window when the server is unresponsive. They have tested these upgrades in their development and testing cluster and the process has gone smoothly but does take a fair bit of time. They will be taking every step possible to ensure this maintenance does not last any longer than necessary.

If you have any questions or concerns please reach out. Again, this maintenance is specific to our website, hostcrate.stream (which includes news.hostcrate.stream and any/all subdomains with hostcrate.stream).

Thank you,
LustyLexxi Larimore

June 13, 2024 by
Current Sales, General Post

BOGO SALE! ALL OF JUNE!

This BOGO sale will be all June long! Buy one week, get one free! No limits. No need to contact me this time around as I adjusted the packages for each plan to reflect the week free in pricing itself. This sale will end on July 1st, 2024 at 9AM SLT (12PM EST). Example is: You pay the L$300 for a week, you’ll get 14 days instead of the normal 7. The next time I have a sale in general won’t be until holiday time (October – December) so be sure to take advantage while you can. For yearly plans, this sale would be applied as buy a year, get 1 free. Will not apply to space add-ons or daily rentals. Questions? Comments? Concerns? Please reach out, we’re here.

Thank you
LustyLexxi Larimore

June 2, 2024 by