Dragoneer (murasadramon) wrote in furaffinity,
2009-12-04 14:53:00
It looks like we're planning to bring the site up Monday night. While we were originally aiming for this weekend, we're currently waiting on the paperwork to process at our new colo facility. While the tech team works 24/7 the back office team is a 9-5 crew. This may turn out to be a good thing as they are expecting snow, and the first snow of the season can usually be kind of hazardous road condition wise. =P

We'll keep you updated as usual.

On the plus side here's the good news: we're upgrading to a 100Mbit dedicated line, which is roughly 25% more bandwidth. In addition, our new deal allows Fur Affinity to operate its main data center at roughly 40% cheaper costs. This will allow us to further invest money into better hardware, upgrades and permit us to do off-site backups.

(Note: With all due respect to Canada, our new colo facility shall remain in Virginia.)
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lbassett

December 4 2009, 19:55:03 UTC 3 years ago

Cheers and high five's!

saelethil

December 4 2009, 19:57:28 UTC 3 years ago

Monday is better than noday.

vgm22

December 4 2009, 19:58:12 UTC 3 years ago

Take it that "To good to be true" deal. Was what they said it would be and you took that one? Plus keep working hard guys. Try not to burn yourself out. ^^

murasadramon

December 4 2009, 20:03:27 UTC 3 years ago

Everything was on the up and up. They just opened a new facility and were expanding out in the territory, and had some new promotional prices. We got lucky. The group we're going to be hosting with has a large presence in over 10 data centers across the country and redundant network connections.

And... the location of it... is questionably interesting.

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suicidalfox

December 4 2009, 19:59:11 UTC 3 years ago



I just wanted to post this before coyoteseven did.

coyoteseven

December 4 2009, 20:57:04 UTC 3 years ago

Live shot of the FA crew dealing with their former colo!

alex_cheetah79

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ainoko_ironrose

December 4 2009, 19:59:17 UTC 3 years ago

To quote a popular saying "Better late than never"

Bankers hours for the office staff, never fails

n3ek

December 5 2009, 01:18:20 UTC 3 years ago

I can't wait to get back on FA i been DYING to see any new art you may have yet to post:D

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sorethumb

December 4 2009, 20:00:46 UTC 3 years ago

Wow, saving money with an initial investment! Now, if they screw us over, we can still drive down and take a crowbar to their knees! :3

Rock on.

Monday? How am I going to ma----eet people this whole damn weekend!? ARRRGH *curses DNS propagation versus simply moving the servers*

murasadramon

December 4 2009, 20:03:54 UTC 3 years ago

It's a legitimate group with an SLA and backing. So I'm quite happy. :)

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moofinator

December 4 2009, 20:02:45 UTC 3 years ago

Yay porn!

No srsly, during this ordeal you've had to put up with a lot of stress and bullshit and expense and hard labor for my (our) benefit. And that's awesome of you.

murasadramon

December 4 2009, 20:04:24 UTC 3 years ago

It's mostly the rumors that frustrating us. Some people seem to think this was intentional, as if we were trying to find a way to !@#$ people over (mainly: ourselves?).

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underdogsora

December 4 2009, 20:13:45 UTC 3 years ago

yay for betterness! And cheaperness!! :D

tombfyre

December 4 2009, 20:17:51 UTC 3 years ago

Sounds like a pretty good situation all around then. Hopefully this new facility proves to be more stable. Also hopefully they have multiple line redundancy, just in-case. :3

And yep, those first snows of the year are always bad news.

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sorethumb

December 4 2009, 20:26:08 UTC 3 years ago

"You guys"-- like there's a paid staff of people who want to work.

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mgwolfstone

December 4 2009, 20:34:17 UTC 3 years ago

With all respect: you shouldn't invest into "cheaper" deals, but in more reliable ones.
Or in some back up server that allows at least some minimal site usuage or whatever, but not getting more cheap stuff that will mostlikely break again.
Or get them on deals that promise a faster service in such cases. ;3

murasadramon

December 4 2009, 20:50:48 UTC 3 years ago

I completely agree with what you're saying. Actually, we put out a bid on FA's hosting back in July. I wanted to see what was out there, and we weren't quite happy with the response times and service we were being provided by Ironpath.

The average quote we were getting was around $1,600 to $2,000. While FA's current costs were about $880 ($945 total if you count Sirkain) we couldn't afford that level of jump to the "ultra reliable" hosts. This may sound like a bad move on our part, but we had to juggle money as a primary issue.

Keep in mind, the place we're moving at has a standard rate of about $1,000 for what we're getting. However, because they recently expanded and have a lot of open space they were able to offer us a better deal if we signed up for a year and got in early.

Colos like we're moving into buy their bandwidth in bulk, and the more of a commit they get the cheaper the rates are overall. So to help boost their commit rate they've got a special going on that allows us to get in early and get better rates.

Given everything we could find out about them - their facilities, their ratings on www.webhostingtalk.com and various Google reviews everything is on the up and up. Even if they were to double our rates on us at the end of the commit year to their standard rates we'd still be in the green compared to other options in the general area.

Add in the fact the colo is central to three of FA's hardware people... it's not a bad deal.

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dracodragon5

December 4 2009, 20:39:30 UTC 3 years ago

Thanks! :3

Cheers to FA!

shadoweon

December 4 2009, 20:41:37 UTC 3 years ago

Taking a little bit but oh well -at least things will work better. And i'm confused, I thought you said the new faculty you visted was in canada but now the colo is staying in virginia?

And they are expecting a little bit of snow in virginia/dc (I live in that area). =o

murasadramon

December 4 2009, 20:52:20 UTC 3 years ago

I said one of the facilities were looking at were in Canada. We were looking between Canada, Iowa, Washington D.C., New Jersey, etc.

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corgii

December 4 2009, 20:58:36 UTC 3 years ago

Virginia, FUCK YEA! Especially Northern VA >;3

simbab

December 4 2009, 23:05:56 UTC 3 years ago

Rednecks or douchebags, take your pick. Virginia is such a wonderful state. ;-)

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sailoryue

December 4 2009, 21:12:18 UTC 3 years ago

yay cant hardy wait till then then ^^

kanickb

December 4 2009, 21:33:38 UTC 3 years ago

Every cloud has a silver lining :3

mapdark

December 4 2009, 21:42:26 UTC 3 years ago

Canada is unpleased..




­>_>



:P

It's ok ,
see ya all on monday ^^

chopstyck_king

December 4 2009, 21:47:23 UTC 3 years ago

Monday awesome!

coyoteseven

December 4 2009, 21:56:53 UTC 3 years ago

It's just another manic Monday.

familliar

December 6 2009, 21:28:09 UTC 3 years ago

lol

looks like someones got a case of the mondays

fatfoxcoon

December 4 2009, 21:58:32 UTC 3 years ago

Monday

Hooray fur Monday! I like Mondays and this one coming up will be even better! Thanks fur all the hard work you been doin to get fa up and running.

You never know what a good thing you have until you dun have it anymore.

I can wait as long as it takes to get fa up. It's worth the wait.

vikki_rubbrvixn

December 4 2009, 21:59:14 UTC 3 years ago

This is all excellent news, particularly the convenient location and reduced rates. Thank you and the rest of the FA wranglers for the hard work!

draconic_mith

December 4 2009, 22:00:42 UTC 3 years ago

"permit us to do off-site backups."

You weren't already? o___o

noble_pro

December 5 2009, 07:21:47 UTC 3 years ago

2nd.....

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undyingwavesong

December 4 2009, 22:06:13 UTC 3 years ago

Sounds freakin' fantastic. :D

Time for happy burd icon usage!

shadoweon

December 4 2009, 22:28:28 UTC 3 years ago

Hey I met you on FA before- I also have a sun conure. He's getting more colorful lately. X3

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marymouse

December 4 2009, 22:24:57 UTC 3 years ago

Way to go! :D :D

bailzzararco

December 4 2009, 22:26:25 UTC 3 years ago

That's great, sooner than I guessed it would happen. I miss the site. I never realized how many times I browse there until it's gone. I stupidly keep forgetting it's down right now and click on my bookmark.
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