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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

Comments: 88


Agent Pylartes (#12847)

Posted on: Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:05am

Holy macaroni! Why oh why do I have neither custom images nor artistic skill to make ones? Maybe I'll find someone who can draw for me. But no matter what, thanks a lot for the opportunity :D

♑ Kat & AK ♈ (#80)

Posted on: Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:07am

I keep seeing this at the bottom.. "Waiting for cache" and then it takes quite awhile to load.. :|

sunnygray (#17124)

Posted on: Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:09am

Sunnygray (#17124)

I'm on Mozilla Firefox. I experienced about a 20% gain in speed.

Thank you so much!

CareBear (#15871)

Posted on: Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:14am

I Am Glad Aywas Is Back! I Wish I could do a custom I would Love A Pirate Finx! But Don't Know How To Draw Them

WinterSweet (#1321)

Posted on: Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:17am

Ah, it a lot slower for me:(

klutzyleo (#6371)

Posted on: Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:17am

It's just as laggy for me as always...

Kon (#5102)

Posted on: Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:24am

Thank you so much!
<3

Fiery [<3] (#10722)

Posted on: Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:31am

It's faster for me c: Thanks!

Aria (#286)

Posted on: Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:38am

ah, mine is much faster. So glad it got fixed. I was in a panic last night to find most my rare stuff missing and the site looking funny but knew it would come back ;)

Isoptera o00o:{ (#3087)

Posted on: Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:35pm

It's actually slower for me, but I'm stoked about the customs :]