Hashtalk ran on the NodeBB forum software, cloud-hosted and managed by nodebb.org (hence the invoices we saw)

PayCoin Talk runs Vanilla, and is likely cloud-hosted and managed by vanillaforums.com (loosely assumed by the lack of branding... a "perk" Hashtalk also enjoyed by opting for paid hosting)
you can see an example of a ~~self-hosted~~* (branded) Vanilla installation at http://forum.hashtalk.org, although it doesn't take a rocket scientist to remove the branding from a self-hosted installation

both are open-source forums whose developers offer managed cloud hosting services

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Quote from: DaveWave on March 08, 2015, 08:13:15 AM

Hashtalk point to 184.168.221.32

that's a GoDaddy load balancer handling parking pages like the one for hashtalk.com (184.168.221.32)

these are not the droids you're looking for

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Quote from: vObh0n]6W on March 08, 2015, 03:00:06 PM

Cloudflare isn't a cloud hosting service, it's a ddos protection proxy service.

You still need your own hosting.

Quote from: clownius on March 08, 2015, 08:33:47 AM

Quote from: DaveWave on March 08, 2015, 08:30:30 AM

Makes sense but if this was the case would you not just change the dns to point at the new forum?

I believe the DNS was changed to a "cloud" host of some sort. Maybe they didnt pay them either Roll Eyes

Cloudflare was/is their DNS provider (it also acts as a DDoS protection proxy as mentioned above, and CDN)

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Quote from: SockPuppetAccount on March 07, 2015, 09:53:52 PM

His forum does have the same layout as hashtalk though which is odd. Wonder if that means anything or if its a coincidence and GAW and this guy paid the same third party to design and launch their forums?

default NodeBB theme

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(http://pastebin.com/4ZFbTv3c)

community.nodebb.org (104.131.182.59) is also running on DigitalOcean

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* [edit: looks like forum.hashtalk.org aka gawminers.vanillaforums.org is not "self-hosted", but could be the "starter" plan for $99/mo.. is that bill really still being paid when so many other things aren't?]