08-06-2005, 06:25 AM
Alright, as you can see, the DaD is back. Sorta. Kinda.
I mailed the Hosting Uberdude, and he informed me that Togashi is truly missing in action. He has apparently been unavailable for quite a while now, and the same seems to apply to his funding.
Thus, the sudden "DaD cannot be reached" issue has been a (very understandable) emergency reaction of the host. The DaD's a major bandwidth hog, and without proper funding, it's a nightmare.
I have asked for the main WWW part of the site to be reactivated (as you can see, my wish has been granted, which I find extremely nice), mostly to get back the boards.
This has two reasons.
1) I want this community to interact, even if the interaction has slowed down a bit for a couple of reasons (my own horrible updating schedule being one of them).
2) I want to know if anybody has constructive ideas. I'm not talking about how to do updates or if we should change the color of the main site to shades of green. I'm talking about the existence of the site.
I don't have exact numbers here right now, but I'll ask the hosting dude for a few rough estimations.
Plan A is to keep this subdomain running. Yes, that means that the ART subdomain would go down, including the art on it. Yes, that sucks royal ass. I'll ask how much this would cost and I'll get back to you.
Plan B is the whole deal. Art, Board, Fics. I'll ask for costs there, too. However, rest assured that that number WILL be higher.
These numbers and the suggestions will determine which way the site goes. I don't intend on switching hosts anytime soon (unless somebody has a ultra-cheap, reliable host that accepts a porn bandwidth monster; and even THEN I'm not sure if I can redirect the domain name, which is apparently still owned by Toga), so let's focus on this host and constructive solutions.
In the meantime, feel free to catch up with fics and art here. The site is on hiatus (even though the fic archive is back up - a pleasant side effect of having the main domain online for now).
I deeply apologize for the troubles of the past and the potential future. However, I hope that we can work something out here. :)
I mailed the Hosting Uberdude, and he informed me that Togashi is truly missing in action. He has apparently been unavailable for quite a while now, and the same seems to apply to his funding.
Thus, the sudden "DaD cannot be reached" issue has been a (very understandable) emergency reaction of the host. The DaD's a major bandwidth hog, and without proper funding, it's a nightmare.
I have asked for the main WWW part of the site to be reactivated (as you can see, my wish has been granted, which I find extremely nice), mostly to get back the boards.
This has two reasons.
1) I want this community to interact, even if the interaction has slowed down a bit for a couple of reasons (my own horrible updating schedule being one of them).
2) I want to know if anybody has constructive ideas. I'm not talking about how to do updates or if we should change the color of the main site to shades of green. I'm talking about the existence of the site.
I don't have exact numbers here right now, but I'll ask the hosting dude for a few rough estimations.
Plan A is to keep this subdomain running. Yes, that means that the ART subdomain would go down, including the art on it. Yes, that sucks royal ass. I'll ask how much this would cost and I'll get back to you.
Plan B is the whole deal. Art, Board, Fics. I'll ask for costs there, too. However, rest assured that that number WILL be higher.
These numbers and the suggestions will determine which way the site goes. I don't intend on switching hosts anytime soon (unless somebody has a ultra-cheap, reliable host that accepts a porn bandwidth monster; and even THEN I'm not sure if I can redirect the domain name, which is apparently still owned by Toga), so let's focus on this host and constructive solutions.
In the meantime, feel free to catch up with fics and art here. The site is on hiatus (even though the fic archive is back up - a pleasant side effect of having the main domain online for now).
I deeply apologize for the troubles of the past and the potential future. However, I hope that we can work something out here. :)