Once a month now I'm going to start doing a short post that I've dubbed "State of the Site". I intend to cover what our eventual goals are, how we're working towards those goals, how we're doing financially, and any other relevant information.
I wanted to take an opportunity to post this little notice letting everyone know we apologize about the shoutboxes being down. After all, we just purchased another shoutbox for our members with the full idea of letting them finally get to use the box without the ever present "Shoutbox exceeded Bandwidth" issues. But more to the point, we are aware of the problem and wanted to let you know that it isn't anything we caused. We just have to wait it out and let the company get their servers back online.
You all were kind enough to donate your money so that we could rent a second server. Well, beginning today you'll get to see that money put to good use...
We were able to get a server for the price we originally intended. The processor is 200Mhz slower than I would have liked, but we're still very excited about our new acquisition. We paid for the server today and should be able to start using it in the next 24 hours.
Just a few hours ago, I wrote about how I had dreams of getting a second server to be able to do some cool extra things for the website. Well thanks to 7 very generous donators, we have raised more than enough money to make that happen.
When the site started up, I knew very little about MySQL or proper database design. Thankfully I got pretty lucky and what I designed worked, though it's far from ideal.
