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It's Saturday again! Doesn't it just feel like... well... Saturday?
Have fun finding them in Explore!
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:17am
After a long silence...
Site Update
Aywas is back!
So, here's the adventure.
At 12:30 AM we requested a new hard drive - as we were told that Aywas would speed up if we put our MYSQL database on a solid state secondary drive. The drive was installed by 1:00 AM, all looked good, until I turned the site back on and logged in.
Our data had been rolled back to October 2010. O__o
So, yeah, suffice to say that was unacceptable. Around 1:30 AM I requested that our hourly backups be extracted and the most recent database before the downtime be used. From 1:30 AM until now, 9:00 AM... the backups kept failing. And failing. :|
Only about ten minutes ago did a backup FINALLY WORK! And now we have Aywas back, just as it was when we left it - and hopefully faster!
Please tell me if you see a speed increase. That was the point of all this work!
As you so kindly waited along with me in our eight hours of downtime, feel free to request a free common species custom here by submitting a custom image.
It's great to be back!
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Fri Mar 18, 2011 8:51am
Downtime
Site Update
Hi guys,
We're going to be having some scheduled downtime starting from around now for 30-45 minutes. We are getting a second drive, a solid state disc, for our database. If you know what a SSD is, you know it is very sexy.
This is one of our steps in helping to combat lag. When the site comes back up you should hopefully find it faster.
Why don't you go play Felisfire for a while? We released some new cat breeds there today :) If you're not sure what Felisfire is, it's a breedables site where you get six free customs to start out and design markings for and you can breed them.
Okay, between this, LiteSpeed, and our upcoming explore optimization, we are hoping for a zooming fast site!
See you later!
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:51am
And some HA clothes to go with it!
Items
I found some St. Patrick's Day themed HA clothes in my files, so I put those in the Seasonal Shop too!
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:29pm
St. Patrick's Day Seasonal Shop
Site Update
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
For this special occassion we bring you a small seasonal shop, with some cute holiday related pets, a potion to go along with them, and some edible items. :)
Free Customs
Like many other holidays, we have some free customs for you to try out for.
Instructions: Type CUSTOM #_ into a news comment for which custom you want. Example: Custom #2. One choice per account.
1 .................. 2 ................ 3
4 .................. 5 ................. 6
7 .................. 8 ................ 9
Enjoy! The St. Patrick's Day seasonal shop will close on 3/19 at midnight :)
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:32pm
Raffle Game
New Game
Remember the hourly raffle game we had in V2? It's back...but different!
Crystal Raffle Game
The Crystal Raffle Game lets you collect a raffle ticket in the form of an item -- a Raffle Crystal -- once every hour that could win you a cool prize at the end of the week.
This week's prize is either Pokemon Black or White, since you guys have been talking about it on the forums so much, shipped to your house!
Because Raffle Crystals are items, you can trade, sell, or collect them before the raffle ends to heighten your chance at winning (or someone else's chance). When the raffle is held, a random winner will be selected, then all the Raffle Crystals will be purged from the system for a new week of collecting.
You also get a small bit of BP whenever you collect a Raffle Crystal. Enjoy!
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:07pm
New Limited Raw Pets
Pets
New Limited Raw Pets are here!
The Corra and the Chorlu (respectively) are the new limited pets for these following two months. The Corra was the user-selected winner of the Raw Pet contest, and the Chorlu was selected by admins for species diversity. :)
Both colorations above are available in the BP Shop if you'd like to grab one.
To celebrate their release, Raw Crystals in the Cash Shop will be "Buy 2 Get 1 Free" for a week, until March 22. Send the GP to account #1 with a message of what crystals you want. Then make lots of pretty pets!
Example: Gold, Gold free Gold
Gold, Blue, free blue
Blue, Metal, free metal
You can find these pets' psds in the Pet Colorations Submissions forum, as always. Enjoy!
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:59pm
Restart
Site Update
I'm restarting the server in about five minutes so you might experience 5-10 minutes of downtime. :)
EDIT: Server has been restarted. That minimized load by about 1. If you can log any pages you encounter that take a longer time to load than other pages onsite and report them, that would help us figure out which pages need optimization.
EDIT2: Sorry about that, Yasu was improving the forum search feature. (:
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:08pm
March Xaoc Contest
Contests
You haven't forgotten about me, have you?
Xaoc owned by TheApostleJudas (#10345), December's winner. Image done by Skitty (#543).
Kicking off the second half of March is our returning Xaoc Contest! This time around you'll have the option of working on a computer or offline, so I hope to see lots of participants. In a sort of extreme monthly pet contest fashion, you'll have two weeks to create the best Xaoc you can that somehow illustrates an aspect of the month of March. Color it, photograph it, sculpt it, then upload it! The grand prize winner will receive a custom Xaoc voucher and four runner ups will get to choose from a prize pot as usual.
Good luck! :3 I hope you guys enjoy this one.
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:58pm
Clovers? In my leaves?
New Game
What are these clovers doing in my leaves?
Game has been advanced to once per hour with better BP prizes (and clovers) until St. Patrick's day!
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:06am