Site back online.
You probably knew that already, though.

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Forums are back online.
Thanks to Carenath donating space on his server, the forums are back online.

Now, I will preemptively answer some questions.

• This wasn't done earlier because I didn't have the data off the old forum server until late, late Sunday night.
• No, we can't use Carenath's server to bring the mainsite up. The main site is about a thousand times larger than the forums. (Both in terms of disk space and bandwidth requirements.)
• We have everything we need to install the servers at the new facility. The only concern now is weather related, but that shouldn't be a problem. (Incidentally, did you know that studded tires are illegal in Maryland? This is highly relevant.)

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[Updated 2009-12-02 02:00 UTC] Oh, and you thought your cable outages were annoying?
Imagine how we feel when our ISP, which supposedly has redundant links, seems to have perennial peering issues.

Pretty much the only way you're going to be getting your wholesome, furry goodness *cough* at this point is by throwing a party in the server room. (And I'd imagine that S&D would take issue with that.)

tl;dr - ISP's shit's broke. Nothing we can do about it. Patience is a virtue. Etc, etc, etc.

PS: I totally just noticed that I haven't done stats in like... two months. Not that I can do it now. Servers are inaccessible. :D

Lack of update: 2009-12-01 15:30 UTC (10:30 EST)

Well, what can I say. Our ISP is still not talking to us. (And I'm sure anyone who is resourceful can dig up who our ISP is.)

Going on 24 hours with no updates. When we know something, we'll post it.

We also have no plans to ask for donations for this problem. Because it won't actually solve the problem, in this case.

Update: 2009-12-02 02:00 UTC (21:00 EST)

(08:48:04 PM) Dragoneer: That the fiber lines were damaged, they're doing emergency repairs.

No estimate.

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More routing issues. 2009-09-14
We've had reports of people outside the US having trouble accessing the site.

This is due to routing issues at an upstream provider.

Cages have been rattled. All we can do now is wait.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Monthly Statistics, Outage
We're back online.

Outage was due to a faulty router at the data center.

Statistics for August 01, 2009 through August 31, 2009
New Submissions: 128832
-General: 101100
-Mature: 14477
-Adult: 13255
New Journals: 46429
New Comments: 1459135
New Users: 11417
Active Users: 91547

Total Advertising Impressions: 251,801,127
Total Ads Clicked: 125,888
Most Clicked Ad: Smoking Pen
Note that the ads only ran from August 8 onward.

(And since I apparently forgot to post it to LJ last month...)
Statistics for July 01, 2009 through July 31, 2009
New Submissions: 127916
-General: 99819
-Mature: 14878
-Adult: 13219
New Journals: 45170
New Comments: 1410413
New Users: 12203
Active Users: 68454

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Fur Affinity Everything Outage 2009-09-01
There was a four hour outage last night due to routing issues at Ironpath.

The site is down now due to routing issues at Ironpath.

No ETA.

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Monthly Statistics: June 2009
Statistics for June 01, 2009 through June 30, 2009
New Submissions: 107450
-General: 83141
-Mature: 12928
-Adult: 11381
New Journals: 39089
New Comments: 1195527
New Users: 10233
Active Users: 52152

Delayed due to Anthrocon.

Because of the way the active user count works, it's only accurate to do the count right as midnight on the first of the month, which I didn't do. All the other stats are fine, though.

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Forum Outage 2009-06-30/07-01
Forums are out due to MySQL crapping itself. (I/E: Running out of disk space.)

They'll be back online sometime in the next hour or two.

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Mainsite outage about an hour ago

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Monthly Statistics: May 2009
Statistics for May 01, 2009 through May 31, 2009
New Submissions: 97155
-General: 74219
-Mature: 12022
-Adult: 10914
New Journals: 34852
New Comments: 1088683
New Users: 9607
Active Users: 64738

Not doing ad stats this month due to the issues we've been having of late. Everything should be back on track next month.

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Monthly Statistics: April 2009
Statistics for April 01, 2009 through April 30, 2009
New Submissions: 91822
-General: 70583
-Mature: 10974
-Adult: 10265
New Journals: 32899
New Comments: 1019193
New Users: 9942
Active Users*: 61233


Ad Impressions: 194,132,873
Ads Clicked: 96,477
Most Clicked Ad**: Cocktails
* Take this stat with a grain of salt. I waited too long...
** Damn it, furries. Stop proving me right.

As they say, better late than never...

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And I know I've been utterly horrible about posting downtimes here. Real life awesomeness. Most of this months downtime and slowness was due to an update to the ad serving software that completely broke our MySQL optimization.

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Monthly Statistics: March 2009
Statistics for March 01, 2009 through March 31, 2009
New Submissions: 95656
-General: 72863
-Mature: 11865
-Adult: 10928
New Journals: 33011
New Comments: 1054400
New Users: 9804
Active Users*: 69988
Data Transferred**: Not available.

Ad Impressions: 264,868,891
Ads Clicked: 126,811
Most Clicked Ad***: Cocktails

Total Donations: Pending...
Total Ad Revenue: Pending...

* Take this stat with a grain of salt. I waited too long...
** Yes, awstats still can't cope with our logs. It's on the "to do" list.
*** Damn it, furries. Stop proving me right.

Bah. I suck. That whole "exam" thing I was doing this last week kinda got in my way.

On another note:

Whenever someone makes a post to the community, I see in my inbox: "Moderated submission notification." And that is all I see before I click the check next to it and head up to the "Archive" button. Because 99.9% of them are "hello" "commissions 4 sale" and "check out my auction."

Now, I'm not opposed to posting other things here that fall within the community rules. But please come talk to me about it, or I probably won't even notice.

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Monthly Statistics: February 2009
Statistics for February 01, 2009 through February 28, 2009
New Submissions: 89926
-General: 67829
-Mature: 11401
-Adult: 10696
New Journals: 30823
New Comments: 997014
New Users: 8217
Active Users: 55847
Data Transferred: Not available.

Ad Impressions: 242,067,927
Ads Clicked: 81,463
Most Clicked Ad: Bad Dragon

Total Donations: $939.74 across 52 donations.
Total Ad Revenue: $510

This month only:
"yak is awesome" donations: $575.13 across 67 donations.

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