ExtremeHW Site Auction - Bidding Ends Jan 1st

[pio]

6 hours ago, Sir Beregond said:

Many went to [H]ardOCP too. I was planning to fold for them in the upcoming contest this month.

 

Probably something you talk to folks on if you do end up going through with it.

Of course, of course.  

[Mr. Fox]

I will still be here, too.

[Kaz]

I'm happy to stay here.  If this site is going to stick around, a new banner at the top might be nice to let people know it's still open for use.

[Snakecharmed]

What's the current state of things, are we back or are we just waiting for expired/canceled services to be turned off at the end of their billing cycle?

 

There seems to be enough community support to keep things running as is if nothing else, but I think a lot of us are looking for a sign that the lights will stay on first. Depending on what the plan is going forward regarding traffic and storage needs, dedicated hosting is most likely overkill, so that largest expense of $133/month could be mid to low double digits if you pick a reputable host for shared servers that isn't a fly-by-night operation. I was the victim of a fly-by-night host 20 years ago and I have plenty of hosting stories to tell.

 

If needed, I can offer some advice and suggestions as well regarding some aspects of hosting a site and forum since I've been doing it for many years now (currently at a minimal level of effort), but I wouldn't seek to be involved in the administration or maintenance of EHW myself.

Edited January 5 by Snakecharmed

[neurotix]

The HWBOT team already moved to TPU as well. And Bastiaan was the main bencher/coordinator here which allowed us to get 8th place in the Team Cup last year and 3rd the year before. He took quite a few highly ranked people with him too.

 

I'm basically all in on the TPU folding team and HWBOT team, damric is a co captain of the HWBOT team there and already running a competition. If this site stays up I'll check it occasionally but for certain other people they have made their final posts and are not looking back.

Edited January 5 by neurotix

[Sir Beregond]

1 hour ago, neurotix said:

The HWBOT team already moved to TPU as well. And Bastiaan was the main bencher/coordinator here which allowed us to get 8th place in the Team Cup last year and 3rd the year before. He took quite a few highly ranked people with him too.

 

I'm basically all in on the TPU folding team and HWBOT team, damric is a co captain of the HWBOT team there and already running a competition. If this site stays up I'll check it occasionally but for certain other people they have made their final posts and are not looking back.

No, the entire HWBot team did not go to TPU, that's not really fair to say. Same with F@H. Lot of the big hitters did not go to TPU.

Edited January 5 by Sir Beregond

[neurotix]

23 hours ago, Sir Beregond said:

No, the entire HWBot team did not go to TPU, that's not really fair to say. Same with F@H. Lot of the big hitters did not go to TPU.

Don't get me wrong. If EHW stays up, at that point I might consider coming back to the folding and hwbot teams.

 

Case in point though: compare the HWBOT team wall for EHW to the team wall for TechPowerUp!. EHW has like four submissions since November, TechPowerUp has many more than that, but I digress that it's probably because of the competition damric is running over there.

 

Anyways, I would not be opposed to coming back if the site stays up.

[Sir Beregond]

15 minutes ago, neurotix said:

Don't get me wrong. If EHW stays up, at that point I might consider coming back to the folding and hwbot teams.

 

Case in point though: compare the HWBOT team wall for EHW to the team wall for TechPowerUp!. EHW has like four submissions since November, TechPowerUp has many more than that, but I digress that it's probably because of the competition damric is running over there.

 

Anyways, I would not be opposed to coming back if the site stays up.

Right I just meant, you and Luke went to TPU to start up HWBot again. That's not "the team moved to TPU".

[neurotix]

5 minutes ago, Sir Beregond said:

Right I just meant, you and Luke went to TPU to start up HWBot again. That's not "the team moved to TPU".

Regardless, we have also lost Bastiaan and tomekmak and a few other serious people from the Netherlands. It would be very hard to make our team as competitive as it was, especially with them gone and damric and I gone.

Edited January 6 by neurotix

[Sir Beregond]

1 minute ago, neurotix said:

Regardless, we have also lost Bastiaan and tomekmak and a few other serious people from the Netherlands. It would be very hard to make our team as competitive as it was, especially with them gone and damric and I gone.

Right I was more saying the team split. It wasn't really accurate to say the team moved to TPU. Between HWBot and Folding, team split to a few places.

[neurotix]

9 minutes ago, Sir Beregond said:

Right I was more saying the team split. It wasn't really accurate to say the team moved to TPU. Between HWBot and Folding, team split to a few places.

Yep this is pretty much it and I am getting settled in to TPU quite well.

 

Bastiaan, tomekmak and Alex and possibly a few others have found other local benchers to have meets IRL with and have their own team (I think) now.

 

Keep in mind not just about HWBOT and benching but also folding@home- damric has left for good so he won't be around to organize foldathons given he was the folding team lead. I don't know if firedfly will step up and do them instead or not. So that's something else to consider.

 

Don't get me wrong, I will keep posting as long as the site is up and TPU has a Discord but it's small and I don't really know anyone there. I *will* keep using the EHW Discord til the end of time as long as it stays up, as all of my friends from here are there and I love that Discord.

[Fluxmaven]

Those guys went to Hardware-Reaktor-Reloaded which is one of the top teams with a lot of extreme league members. 

 

It's great that you're having fun at TPU. Being a big fish in a small pond is probably more enjoyable than being on a team of extreme and elite members for HWBot. 

 

As for folding, I know you like being on their pie chart and seeing all the emojis on their points updates over at TPU  

 

firedfly and I are currently folding for HardOCP, but there's no guarantee we wouldn't come back to EHW to run the foldathons.

[Sir Beregond]

Yep I went to HardOCP as well for folding. No thought yet as to HWBot, but honestly haven't been doing anything with HWBot all year so not a big priority.