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[info]squeaky
10/20/09 04:16 pm
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There was a bit of downtime this afternoon due to an outage at our hosting provider. Just wanted to let everyone know that we were on top of it and fully aware. Everything is back up at this time.

Also just to let everyone know, we are now doing daily backups of the databases on the site so we can handle any catastrophe. Unfortunately these backups cause about 15 minutes of downtime each day. Right now we are scheduling the backups at 2:30PM (Eastern/US). This will switch to 3:30PM once Daylight Savings ends. We are looking into ways to do this with less user impact.
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  • [info]mccandless
    10/21/09 09:54 pm (UTC)
    Thank you for everything, Squeaky! Just a question... is there a reason my adblocker is no longer blocking ads from this site? It's an annoyance to me and I can't exactly afford a paid account at this time, so I use Firefox's free adblock, which like I said, seems to have stopped working...

    • [info]soviet
      10/21/09 11:42 pm (UTC)
      it looks like the ads have been changed into text-based ads, that's why.

      • [info]user
        10/22/09 12:17 am (UTC)
        Where the adds always placed there? Cause that's a crappy place to put them, makes the profile pages look cluttered.

        • [info]soviet
          10/22/09 12:21 am (UTC)
          it used to be at the top of the page or at the bottom, but i noticed that in the past few months or so, it moved to that weird position. really bad positioning & it's hideous.

    • [info]house
      10/22/09 12:35 am (UTC)
      They're definitely an annoyance, but users using AdBlock is probably the reason IJ has switched to text ads that are much more difficult to block. What's free for you has to be paid for some way, and paid accounts don't bring in enough money in themselves.

      • [info]sickboy
        10/22/09 01:40 pm (UTC)
        Agreed. The website is free to use (and boy, do we use it), but it's not free to maintain.
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