Yeastcalc.com Down?

I am brewing this weekend and I did my usual starter ritual by going to yeastcalc.com first. I got an error page when the site loaded.

Does anyone know who hosts this site? Can we donate to bring it back? Has it moved? I searched all over the forums and couldn't find anything related to this so I apologize if someone has already noticed this.

awwww.. dang.

Did you email or call that number on there?

Actually, let's give them a couple hours. Hopefully just some site maintenance. Adding features or something?

It looks more like the web registration has expired. I hope it goes back up. I use it for every batch.

Spartan1979 said:

It looks more like the web registration has expired. I hope it goes back up. I use it for every batch.

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Same here. I know of others but I prefer yeastcalc. Should be a simple web re-registration but I have no idea who created it...

ITS STILL DOWN! I am not happy as I find yeastcalc to be a lot easier to use than mr. malty.

Yeah, I really liked the ability to do stepped starters on yeast calc, and I preferred Kai's stirplate formula to Jamil's.

yeah i'm bummed, yeastcalc IMO was much better than mr malty. i could input starter size and it would spit back the amount of yeast i was gonna get, ideal when using multiple steps. damn i hope it comes back soon

I thought the owner of yeastcalc was a member here?? Maybe we can find out what is going on. I love using his site!!

Has anyone else noticed that yeastcalc.com is down?!?

I use this exclusively for my starter calculations and it was down yesterday when I wanted to run the numbers for my starter this week, and it's still down today. I don't really like the mrmalty calculator. It's telling me 1.3 liter starter, but no guidance on grams DME?

It appears to be. I tried to access it yesterday with no luck. I ended up using the brewersfriend.com yeast calculator, which seems to work pretty well.

Yeastcalc belongs to hbt member Sulli. According to his profile he hasn't been on hbt since last June, which doesn't bode well for the likelihood that yeastcalc will be back online anytime soon.

Yeastcalc belongs to HBT member Sulli. According to his profile, he has not logged into HBT since last June.

As an alternative to yeastcalc, the Brewersfriend yeast calculator seems to work pretty well. Like Yeastcalc, it uses Kai Troester's stirplate cell growth formula and can handle step-ups.

That sucks. It was my go-to yeast starter site. Hopefully, it will be back up soon.

I hope that no one swooped in and stole the site address from them if the reg did expire

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Looks like the DNS registration expired on the 10th, but the domain name is still locked down for now...

Cheers!

That's weird, I used it at 6:45 pst tonigh when I got home. Now its not up.

That's unpossible!

Cheers!

Just tried it on my laptop and it up and working. Doesnt work on my tablet

I suppose a stale DNS cache on the working computer - or using a DNS server with a stale cache - could explain that. Likely won't work for long though...

Cheers!

Anyone know what's up with the website?

Thanks for the info, but man, that's bad news.

Hasn't worked since this past Saturday, 1/25, which was the first time I had attempted to use it in a couple of weeks.

I was able to pull down a copy of the webpages from archive.org and could easily put them up on another site with permission from the author. Anyone have contact info?

Check the whois report I linked a couple of posts back, there is contact info in there...

Cheers!

TallDan said:

I was able to pull down a copy of the webpages from archive.org and could easily put them up on another site with permission from the author. Anyone have contact info?

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You can try a PM and see if he responds.

LLBeanJ said:

You can try a PM and see if he responds.

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Yep, just found him and did that.

I also looked in the whois, it doesn't seem to correspond to a real email address, but i'll try it anyway.

I really hope it comes back. That site has been great for calculating step starters!

Seems to be down. Maybe they need to pay the hosting provider????

I attempted to contact Dustin, whose site it is. If anyone has better contact info than whois or a PM here let me know. If he's not going to renew the domain, I'd like his permission to host it.

Although a bit unfamiliar, and more clumsy feeling, the Brewers Friend calculator is a great yeast propagation substitute:

http://www.brewersfriend.com/yeast-pitch-rate-and-starter-calculator/

Part 2 is the stepped yeast starter form.

Looks like the domain expired.

Although a bit unfamiliar, and more clumsy feeling, the Brewers Friend calculator is a great yeast propagation substitute:

http://www.brewersfriend.com/yeast-pitch-rate-and-starter-calculator/

Part 2 is the stepped yeast starter form.

Alternatively, you can use an archived Yeastcalc page from here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20140108174714/http://yeastcalc.com/

(You might consider saving yourself an mht offline copy in case it goes kaput for good)

Alternatively, you can use an archived Yeastcalc page from here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20140108174714/http://yeastcalc.com/

(You might consider saving yourself an mht offline copy in case it goes kaput for good)

stpug said:

Alternatively, you can use an archived Yeastcalc page from here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20140108174714/http://yeastcalc.com/

(You might consider saving yourself an mht offline copy in case it goes kaput for good)

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Thank you for the link and what an absolutely amazing suggestion, and mht saved.

Just went there, says the domain expired. With domain reg fees <$10/year, seems silly that the owner would let it lapse. If their hosting company is like mine, they may offer a grace period in which to buy it back before it's released to the market. I let a domain go that I decided not to develop, and 1&1 nagged me for about a month to renew it.

Good call on saving offfline!

How do you go about saving it offline?

kh54s10 said:

How do you go about saving it offline?

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On IE click File/Save As.../Save as type - Web Archive,single file (*.mht)/Save

bootney said:

On IE click File/Save As.../Save as type - Web Archive,single file (*.mht)/Save

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How do I do this on a mac in safari?