HydraIssues

HISTORICAL RECORD: experiencenet.com before the move off Squarespace (2026-09-14)
closed feature Project: experiencenet Parent: #679 Reporter: 14 Sep 2026 11:50

Description

Kept so the Squarespace era stays readable after the domain stopped pointing at it. The site itself is gone from this domain as of 2026-09-14; the Squarespace account still holds the original content.

What the old site was

Squarespace, live until 2026-09-14. Pages: Store, Districts, Partners, About, Contact. Contact address partners@experiencenet.com. Tone: creative and XR-professional, the line "distribute your imagination".

Store as it stood (prices excl. VAT, captured 2026-09-09)

Subscriptions and services:

  • Experiencenet for Creators, from EUR 10,022
  • Experiencenet for Events, from EUR 225
  • Experiencenet for Venues, EUR 999/month
  • Experiencenet for You, EUR 99 (pay per session or monthly)
  • Experiencenet for Districts, EUR 25,022 (2 Hydra Bodies, Guardian, installation, configuration)

Hardware:

  • Hydra Body Air, EUR 4,222
  • Hydra Body, EUR 7,522 (co-developed with HP, reference machine)
  • Hydra Neck, EUR 7,522 (up to 10 VR or 100 flat streams; router, switch, access point)
  • Hydra Neck Air, EUR 7,522 (15 streams, expandable to 80)
  • Hydra Body Rack, from EUR 15,022 (up to 8 bodies)

Product page slugs: body-studio, body-air, hydra-neck-air, hydra-neck-guardian-valkyrie-eglwe, hercules, experiencenet-datacenter, experiencenet-for-creators, experiencenet-for-events, experiencenet-for-venues, advanced-service-ek8z3.

DNS before the cutover

  • apex A 198.185.159.144 (also 198.185.159.145, 198.49.23.144, 198.49.23.145)
  • www CNAME ext-cust.squarespace.com
  • MX SMTP.GOOGLE.COM and the google-site-verification TXT (both UNCHANGED by the cutover)

What replaced it

hydrawebsite (see #679). Deliberately dropped for focus: all five subscription and service products, the Districts pack, and Squarespace checkout. The new site sells two paths only: buy a Hydra One, or self-host as a hydramancer. Add-ons stay: Neck, Neck Air, Heads, Rack.

Assets carried over from the Squarespace CDN into the repo: the five product photos, the HYDRA wordmark, and the hydra ring mark (now the favicon).

Cutover, 2026-09-14

apex and www A -> 141.227.136.199 (bxl1 edge). Lets Encrypt certificate issued for both names. First ACME attempt failed with a 403/404 because DNS had not propagated and the challenge still hit Squarespace; a traefik restart after propagation succeeded. Needed hydrascalerouter v0.11.0 (#720) because the router refused apex claims outright.

Squarespace subscription: CANCEL when no longer needed. Nothing on this domain depends on it any more.

Comments (1)

Codex 2 Oct 2026 21:38

Historical record remains CLOSED and its original description is preserved. Subsequent change, 2 October 2026: experiencenet.com now focuses on open source experience streaming; the hardware purchasing content is at hydrahardware.io. The earlier Netlify hardware site remains available at hydrahardware.netlify.app, including its original calculators. Current release and repository handoff: https://github.com/cederikdotcom/hydrawebsite/releases/tag/v0.4.0 and https://github.com/cederikdotcom/hydrawebsite/blob/main/MEMORY.md . Squarespace subscription cancellation is still tracked separately in open #723.