Hiya!
Thank you for your patience while the servers were migrated. I very much appreciate your understanding. Below are the new IPs for the servers. Please update your stream details notecard(s) / and or whereever you store your info to reflect the change.
If you ever lose your details, the IPs will be also updated in our renewal system. You can get your details by clicking the “get your stream details” sign at the office.
I will be making backend updates so the old servers may not function any longer and the IP change is completely migrated over as well. If you have any questions, need assistance, or etc please feel free to reach out at anytime.
Thank you
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OLD IP: 172.111.49.58
NEW IP: 169.197.85.218
Control Panel: ttps://cp1.hostcrate.com/
This server will be referred to as server 218 from now on.
(use to be on IP 147)
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OLD IP: 172.99.148.138
NEW IP: 69.197.87.130
Control Panel: https://cp2.hostcrate.rocks/
This server will be referred to as server 130 from now on.
(use to be on IP 242)
Just a quick update about the migration
Tue, Feb 17 2026 9:02:39 AM SLT
Just a quick update that the servers are still being migrating…I will send out a notice with the new IPs. I will do my best to also message every single person by IM and with a notecard of their new IP, you’d just update your notecards and info in your DJ software and etc.
thank you for your understanding & patience!
–LustyLexxi Larimore
P.S: Yes, I did forget to post this on our news page. I do apologize for that. This is why we have multiple channels to get the information out asap: a discord group, facebook page, Inworld Group & notices. Being on at least a few of the options is beneficial so you don’t miss out at all. Email notifications are coming as soon as possible.
Thank you again!
As most of you know by now our pricing went into affect back on November 17th, 2023. I have put off with those plans we no longer have available to have people choose another plan. That time has now come.
For our regular stream plans: We no longer have the intro plan so you can either go with the budget plan or upgrade to the club plan. Whatever time is on your account will remain and you won’t have to pay the difference nor will you be refunded if you choose to downgrade.
For our VIP License stream plans: We no longer have the standard / intro plan so you can downgrade to our VIP Budget License or upgrade to the 5GB VIP License. Whatever time is on your account will remain and you won’t have to pay the difference nor will you be refunded if you choose to downgrade.
I will reach out by direct IM and leave a notecard to customers who are on those plans. You’ll have until January 31st, 2024. If I don’t get a reply, I’ll upgrade you.
Why upgrade? Because those plans have space & autodj and if I were to downgrade you then you’d lose access to your AutoDJ and the music you’ve uploaded & playlists would be gone so just in case someone wanted to be upgraded but didn’t reach out, you’d not have to worry that you lost all that hard work. I hope that makes sense.
If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to me.
Thank you,
LustyLexxi Larimore
Hiya. The migration of the servers to the new datacenter has been completed. The DNS update may take a few days to reflect as being changed. Please be sure to change the IP address in your encoder if you software requires you to use an IP address to connect to your stream for live broadcasting. All data should of been copied right over to the new server including all playlists & autodj settings. Please let me know if anything is messed up including if your port # isn’t working properly so that I can work on fixing it. If you don’t report a problem to me, I don’t know that it is broken/an issue.
For those on server that was cp1.hostcrate.com /cp3.hostcrate.net – IP ending in 147, the IP for that server is now 172.111.49.58
The control panel control panel URL will remain the same, your username, password, & port. Everything, EXCEPT the IP address, will stay the same.
For those on server that was cp2.hostcrate.rocks IP ending in 242 – the IP for that server is now 172.99.148.138
The control panel control panel URL will remain the same, your username, password, & port. Everything, EXCEPT the IP address, will stay the same.
Thank you,
LustyLexxi Larimore
Hello!
The back end of the migration will be completed on Monday December 18th, 2023 starting at 9AM SLT. This includes the DNS A records for the IP address for all domains including the control panel domain. The DNS change worldwide may take up to 24 to 48 hours. During DNS update, the browser may connect to the old server which will result invalid password so bear with us while the changes update. For future reference the new IP address is 172.111.49.58 and the control panel URL will remain the same, just changing the IP address as it is with a different datacenter.
The migration process will begin on Monday, same time as well. This may take up to 2 days, it just depends. They were able to do the other server in about 15 hours but have a backup just in case. The back end of this will be done as soon as the migration is completed so you may get the same issues as described above. Please be patient and bear with me through this process. The datacenter & I are working to have the least amount of downtime possible. I will send an update again once everything has been completed. Also for future reference, your IP will be 172.99.148.138
Also note I am sending out this notification to each customer via a notification system inworld. I will also be taking the time to send this to each customer directly as well. Just trying to notify everyone the best I can. This is why we have a website so if you IMs get capped, you can still access important information such as this. That site is: https://news.hostcrate.stream/
I also want to side note that I *didn’t* want to move/migrate. I was forced to by the datacenter we had been with for just shy of a decade! 10 years of loyalty. You can read that ticket interaction on this post for full details. I just wanted to make that crystal clear as I did receive a not so friendly IM complaining about my moving and raising pricing. If I would of ordered servers with the current datacenter, the price increase would of been a lot more as they are expensive. But I didn’t want to do that so I looked for another & receive word from someone who knows their stuff. Their pricing is reasonable and I didn’t have to raise it that much. I also moved my office to lessen the cost of operations which lessen the price I would have to increase it by. If you have an issue with this and decided to leave Hostcrate, I’m sorry and I do hope that you find a provider that is better suited for you. We wll be here if ever you decide to come back.
That is all, for now. If you have any questions, etc, please reach out. Thank you again!!!!!!
Thank you,
LustyLexxi Larimore
Hiya.
Server ending in 147 has been migrated (cp1.hostcrate.com). The backend admin parts I will be doing on Monday, December 18th, 2023 starting at 9AM SLT. This includes the DNS A records for the IP address for all domains including the control panel domain. The DNS change worldwide may take up to 24 to 48 hours. During DNS update, the browser may connect to the old server which will result invalid password so bear with us while the changes update. For future reference the new IP address is 172.111.49.58 and the control panel URL will remain the same, just changing the IP address as it is with a different datacenter.
The next server migration will be done soon as I have to order the server for this & have things setup in the backend. I will keep you all updated.
Any questions, concerns, issues PLEASE reach out to me as that is what I am here for.
P.S. you’ll be able to stream just fine as the old server will remain until the update of DNS on Monday is done and then you’ll need to update the IP address you use which is given in this post. Again, this is specific to those who are on server ending in IP address 147 / control panel url: cp1.hostcrate.com
They will be starting the migration process on December 6th, 2023. You shouldn’t notice any issues or interruptions as you should be able to stream as normal. They (the software developer) will be just migrating all of the data to the new server. Once done, I will send another notice with the new IP address and switch behind the scenes info as needed. You shouldn’t have to do anything on your part until I have sent out info for the IP, Control panel Info, etc.
Thank you for understanding –Lexxi
Hello.
We will have to move datacenters by January 31st, 2024. By “have to”…we have no choice. After just shy of 10 (TEN) years with this datacenter….we received an email to which opened a ticket automatically by their system. I replied…there was a small exchange. I had to double reply as there was no response from them for 6 DAYS! Imagine if I were to leave you as a customer on read for 6 days only to reply with the response they left me…no help whatsoever. Imagine how upset you’d be…that is me, right now. I have been very angry over this.
I am so sorry this has to happen. I am looking for us a new place to call home that will be reliable. Once I find some options to try (and have the funds for), I will get into our Beta discord to give people access. This, by the way, will cost me to find a new home because servers are not free to just test (that’d be great lol) and I have to also pay for the software to put onto the servers which also isn’t free so please bear with me as my husband will be trying to help with footing the bill to help us out.
All updates will be posted here so please keep an eye out.
VIDEO OF DATACENTER CONVERSATION:
Thank you for understanding. –Lexxi
Hey everyone!
I am SUPER happy to announce that the migration has been FINISHED! Whew! FINALLY! I will now be adding time to rental boxes of ** ONLY ** those affected. Your rental box will officially receive 56 days onto your box in a few moments from when this post goes live. I used the useful timeanddate.com in case anyone needs a such a tool! Phase 2 started on December 31st, 2021 until today when I officially finished the migration.
If you were in overdue status before the migration & are in overdue status once I have added said time, you will have 7 days to pay your rental box or you will risk losing your stream for non-payment. ALL temp streams that were given out will be deleted officially TOMORROW as soon as I wake up. Payments are officially no longer on hold. I will be doing terminations of ALL streams that took advantage of my being incredibly BUSY with this migration and were NOT affected by this migration tomorrow.
That is the end of this update…I think…Ya girl is TIRED so if there was anything that I missed, I will post further updates.
Thank you to everyone who was so kind, patient, and understanding of this situation. I appreciate you more than I will ever be able to express *virtual hugs*
–LustyLexxi Larimore