June 7, 2010
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Update on Site Upgrades & Maintenance
Sorry for all the recent site problems – last weekend we moved networks, and this weekend we moved hardware. But now that we’re on a new network and new hardware, the site should be much faster and more reliable!
Some details on the new hardware: we just bought a bunch of new servers:
- Database server – We bought a faster database with more RAM (72GB ram vs. 64gb with previous db).
- Photo Storage: The new photo storage has 128 terabytes of storage (vs. 75.6tb on the old system).
In addition to being faster and better, the new drives are also more reliable, have faster transfer speeds, and are also faster at reading/writing. Also: the new hardware is smaller and uses less electricity as well. All good developments for Xanga!
Transitioning to the new hardware was tougher than we thought, though. So over the weekend, we had to turn off photo uploads to ease the transition… and some photos were intermittently flickering in and out while the images were copied over to the new servers.
Sorry for the lack of updates on that front – due to a communications mixup, I didn’t realize that we’d have to turn off some photos during the transition until after it was done!
The transfer of all files should be complete, and photo uploads fully functional again!
How is the site working for you now – is it fast? Everything working ok? Please let us know!
John
Comments (97)
Thank God. Xanga was about to make me cry with all of the non-workingness.
Thanks for fixing it!
its all good in my neighborhood
No complaints here.
Except for the fucking spammers.
Doing great John. Thanks for all the hard work.
everything works fine and fast : )
audio uploads still not working
Yay!
Seems back to normal.
CHEERS=]
Any chances of implementing Captcha on the comments?
it’s working pretty good now!
Oh, I still can’t download my Archive. =[
No complaints here, Xanga lives on and will hopefully stay around forever.
I heard a whole bunch of spank xangas and send it to beds but to be honest I had only ONE glitch- and that’s up from previous big maintainance jobs so woohoo!
Thanks all~ you did an excellent job~ I esp admire your willpower to not set fire to the whole system.
Thanks again!
So the rumor I started about BP buying you out wasn’t true?
Good to hear!
Thanks guys, we appreciate the hard work.
Thanks for all the work! <3 I love Xanga!
Working good so far. Thanks for the update.
I am glad it is running and all but you guys still to fix my sites glitches that I told you about. ):
It is fast. It’s still the same ol’ Xanga though (not to be obfuscated with the Good Ol’ Xanga).
@TheTheologiansCafe - You are hilarious for that, by the way!
Thanks for the update. Appreciate the hard work.
so uh… when’s the iphone app coming out?
I appreciate this…thank you guys.
Haven’t tried uploading photos, but everything is working fine for me.
Fortunately, I like to upload snips of photos rather than the photos themselves, meaning they are files of KBs rather than MBs. That should take up practically no space in your new photo storage! ^.^
Thanks for working so hard to get it working again, and for letting us know! It seemed to be working well this morning.
Ya know, a simple “server status” message would save a lot of frustration…
my custom url is still not working
thanks for all your work to keep the site up…i’ve had no issues on my site…>^,,^<
Great job, Xanga! Thanks for your speed recovery.
Were there problems?
It’s SUMMER TIME people.. GO OUTSIDE!!!
<3
Does this mean we can upload pictures to our blog now?
@ProvokingThought - hi! The recent bug that took Personal URLs offline may have re-set your URL back to the standard xanga format…Try going back to your Personal URL settings and re-setting your personal URL as your “default” URL:
http://www.xanga.com/private/managepurls.aspx
I still can’t upload videos. Will that be fixed soon?
…I can’t add a profile picture for some odd reason.
Everything’s working great for me.
Working well for me. Thanks.
I did notice a bit more speed….
very cool
No worries! You guys are awesome!
Woot! Everything’s working now <3
@MomGoneMadd - I agree! lol.
@iamthebella - Good Lord!!! I mean all the talking schmax about xanga and it being broken and threatening to leave and bla bla blaaaaahh.. freaking go outside and play!! Take your face OUT of the computer for a bit… Then when you come home, you’ll have INTERESTING material to blog about instead of the constant bitching about it being broken and what you would do to fix it.. baaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh
Ok.. I feel better now.
ye digity
Thank you for the update…I was just frustrated as all get out and then Dan played an April Foolery on us…sorry if’n I was a bit harsh sounding…but there were no updates and I was afraid of either something was wrong or someone was bouncing around xanga land again and I had just paid me chocolate dues to her…smile
Slight glitch…. When I click onto another page, it’s slow in coming up, abt 60 seconds before the page can be viewed. (That could be my comp..lol) Other than that… Thank you so much for your hard work. I know it couldn’t have been easy. You all did a great job!
While you guys at it, can you install some nifty anti-spammers gizmo to zap all spammers to oblivion?
I don’t like site rapists raping my comment boxes to plant their dirty seeds.
Oh yeah… we could use more storage space for our videos. Video uploader won’t us upload videos bigger than 25MB.
The weblog archive still isn’t working for me. When I click the zip file, it says the page cannot be displayed.
I can’t upload videos I still receive a “server maintenance” error
I still can’t upload videos. Will that be fixed soon?
Great, now can we do something about all the freaking spammers? They are really irritating the snot out of me.
@marc - Fixed! thank you!
things seem back to normal – thanks for that. in the future, a little communication would go a long ways in terms of keeping your customers satisfied! peace, Al
Woo!
After not being able to upload photos yesterday, today I was able to. It WAS fast. I’d say it’s worth it.
Everything seems to be working fine for me except that I still can’t upload a new profile picture.
@MomGoneMadd - What is “outside”?
w00t. xanga maintenance is usually worth it…
Yep, videos is still busted. Funny…no mention on work for that section, and yet it still doesn’t work.
@seashull - Hope so.
@Bricker59 - SERIOUSLY. I get them everyday. Can you tackle the spam sites next?
some pages cannot be accessed.
its finally loading faster
ITS DOING GREAT! keep up the good work guys
So… when is it REALLY supposed to start working correctly? It’s still screwy with audio and video uploads.
I cannot upload videos
Its still running slow.
Everything is working great here. Merci, Danke and muchas gracias!
I’m with Brick though, isn’t there some kind of bug repellant you can use to get rig of those pesty spammers?
@Rob_of_the_Sky - It’s amazing.. but approach with caution. You may see the beautiful works of God Almighty and we wouldn’t want that now would we.
Pages seem hesitant to fully load at the moment.
I’m not sure if that’s Xanga or Internet in general.
On another note:
Spammers are taking over like a parasitic plague on anyone who gets ten or more comments on a post.
Other than that, things are good. Looking forward to the finished project! Thanks for all of the hard work!
Thanks for all your hard work!
Oh…..I still can’t load profile pics.
totally worth everything!
No video uploads as of today.
Is there an issue with email digests? I haven’t been getting mine lately.
Clicking our profile picture in the old private homepage times out. Usually, it leads to the page where we can change our profile pics.
I think my footprints are not working. That, or nobody has visited my site for the last few days. It’s possible, I don’t get many visitors, but I usually have at least a few each day.
Cool.
@CaKaLusa - thanks! We’ll be rolling a fix shortly
@marc - sounds good! thanks for the quick response.
I haven’t had much time to update this week but it seems to be working fine so far. Thanks for the work and the update too.
um how come i cant read any of my old blogs or comments???????????
good!
Every time I try to upload photos, it tells me “Service Unavailable,” HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.” It has been days and I still can’t add photos. Is it just me?
Damn it Xanga! Can’t we just go back to the way things were before??? This site is SLOW AS HELL now! No premium for me anymore.
WHY CAN’T WE UPLOAD IMAGES LARGER THAN 800PX WIDTH? I can do this easily on other sites, but Xanga has to cause problems.
Make sure to shut down the following sites:
hecticmuse
hypocritically_hector
Disgusting, depraved trolls. One of them made the xanga front page!!
Xanga – you really messed up. And that’s putting it nicely.
audio problems here
I am STILL not getting email updates about weblog comments. It’s been practically a month now, Xanga. I’m getting a little annoyed.
因为我的英文不太好，所以我根本就不知道如何使用这个，怎么搜索好友啊？
郁闷
http://www.cheapuggtallboots.com
I love the new and improved Xanga but what happened to all of my wonderful subscriptions? I don’t get notified when they post anymore and I’ve heard that my subscribers don’t get notified when I post. It makes it hard to keep in touch.