/guro/ - Guro

it looks down on my end too. I ran it through downforeveryoneorjustme and it said it's down.

I hate having to remake my thread every time they remake the damned site. That place is my number 1 place for interesting pose references and ideas for my gore loving commissioners! :(

is this the 4th time or the 5th now?

Looks like it's back, thankfully (with no data loss this time).

Gurochan is literally Mai-Chan

chopped in half and buried under cement only to rise again a week later and apologizing for the absence

I'd say "Tomie" but it's nicer

>>343

From IRC:

[22:21] <Andlex> Ryonaloli, you've probably answered this a lot already, but why is Gurochan down so often lately?

[. . .]

[22:22] <ryonaloli> Andlex: an issue with nginx (our web server software). unfortunately it happened at a time when enclaved was busy, and i was travveling

[22:22] <ryonaloli> *Traveling

Site's back up now, by the way. You just can't post loli and shota till they get everything sorted out. I'd ask for clarification, but I figure every second they spend answering questions is a second they're not spending on fixing the site.

Well, I can't get to it normally, via IP, or even via yer various TOR-portals (I haven't quite got the actual prog on my PC yet…) … even the latter just says that the site isn't responding.

Should I therefore assume it's dead-for-good?

>>441

It's actually been back up for quite a while now. If it was dead, you can bet you'd see a lot more traffic either here or on r/guro.

If you can't get to the site, try visiting through some sort of proxy (Google Translate can work in a pinch). Your ISP or country may be blocking you from it.

>>441

>>442

Whoops, just read that you couldn't get to it through TOR portals. Disregard my second paragraph. If you can't get there, I have no idea what's going on unless you're still trying to go to the .net site.

>405

Loli is allowed now fyi

It's down again.

>>516

…not just me, then. Great.

>>520

still down, just checked. was gonna look up some burning stuff on there. fuck.

Shit sucks.

Remains down.

It is down for me too, though the other day the site was pseudo-online. It was changed to a single page that essentially said it was down due to technical difficulties, and should be back in a matter of days. That page has been taken offline as well though it seems…

when they come back up maybe a concerted effort should be made to take all of their content and do a small amount of advertising.

From IRC:

#Guro: GUROchan is available at http[s]://213.141.136.28/ (gurochan.ch domain name will remain unusable until we find a decent reverse proxy provider). Shit keeps happening.

>>564

So the site is up, but not at the domain it's supposed to be at. Enclaved's ISP is a bitch apparently.

And from the site itself:

The recent major downtime, initially started as a brief maintenance downtime by schedule, was a result of three unforeseen issues:

1. Hardware problem: the UPS powering the server depleted its battery and was taken down, which later resulted in the premature death of the server's sole (regrettably non-redundant) power supply. The server's motherboard is old and turned out incompatible with the spare power supply that I had at hand, so it took me some time to obtain a proper replacement one.

2. Software problem: we switched the Linux kernel trunk during the maintenance period, which had broken networking (at least in our setup.) Now that we switched the trunk to the newest 4.* version, everything is fine.

3. Our exit point server provider (an ad-hoc reverse proxy of sorts) terminated service for us on the grounds of GUROchan's content breaching their terms of service. We found a new reverse proxy provider and are in the process of setting up networking with them. The new reverse proxy is expected to enter service within a couple of days from now.

We are really sorry for this mess. In order to prevent reverse proxy problems in future we will set up more exit point servers to achieve fault tolerance through redundancy, and also (coarsely) balance the networking load via a simple DNS round robin. So, we are calling for your help: if anyone can and is willing to provide a reverse proxy service (* see the note below) for us, please contact me (enclaved) or ryonaloli either on IRC or start a thread in /dis/. Your help will be greatly appreciated and will help ensure GUROchan stability and longevity. This resource is very dear for us and all of our users, so we will continue to run it by any means.

—enclaved

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* Technical note: in our ad-hoc context, a reverse proxy is composed of a network tunnel connecting the exit point and my border router carrying IPv4 as payload (tunneling options include GRE, MPLS, IPIP, and IPsec; the former two are preferred) and PAT (port address translation, or port forwarding) of ports TCP/80 and TCP/443 from the exit point public IP address to the internal IP address of the server routed through the tunnel. RIPv2 or OSPF routing would come in handy too. As such, an exit point can be run on a router, not requiring a full-fledged server or VDS.

Gurochan just keep dying, how appropriate.

why did i find this gurochan via google search? → gurochanocizhuhg.onion.link

it's essentially the same site as gurochan.ch. i've no idea how TOR works, but at least i can access that onion link from a regular browser.

>>565

why even care? If everyone from gurochan just got on this board it would improve greatly!