Hey folks,

This is an advance notice that e621 WILL BE OFFLINE for probably the majority of Sunday 24th October, for the server to be moved across to its new home in Phoenix, Arizona. The drive takes at least 6 hours and will be accompanied by several hours of unracking at one end and re-racking at the other, so the downtime is likely to last *all day*.

There will be an interim 'offline' page in the meantime along with a live Twitter feed, so you won't be left completely in the dark, but suffice to say there won't be much fappable material available all day Sunday. I hope to have it up by the evening, though... but things may change.

Follow @e621DotNet on twitter here for live updates: http://www.twitter.com/e621dotnet .

Fap while you can!!

welp, good thing im gonna be at a concert that day so i'm spared :D

what will be on the "offline" page? will it be like the last time and have Robot Unicorn Attack?

lol, 'Fap while you can!!'

I wander how many people are going to be shocked that the sites down, tomorrow.

Phoenix Arizona, huh?

Well, I guess it's dryer there. Hopefully there won't be any cooling problems.

well i believe phoenix arizona has the best a/c units for this. so things should be grand for the site. have a safe trip there and back, hope all works out for you.

Server Nazi: No porn for you, one day!

(recall the "Soup Nazi" from Seinfield?)

Sweet! Porn servers a few miles from my house!

Zipline said:
Sweet! Porn servers a few miles from my house!

IDR?? same here!

Varka said:
Hey folks,

This is an advance notice that e621 WILL BE OFFLINE for probably the majority of Sunday 24th October, for the server to be moved across to its new home in Phoenix, Arizona. The drive takes at least 6 hours and will be accompanied by several hours of unracking at one end and re-racking at the other, so the downtime is likely to last *all day*.

There will be an interim 'offline' page in the meantime along with a live Twitter feed, so you won't be left completely in the dark, but suffice to say there won't be much fappable material available all day Sunday. I hope to have it up by the evening, though... but things may change.

Follow @e621DotNet on twitter here for live updates: http://www.twitter.com/e621dotnet .

Fap while you can!!

W00t! E621 is being moved to my state!

NakomisXI said:
W00t! E621 is being moved to my state!

and out of mine .-.

Well thank you for letting us know!
Also don't cross yer wires. :P
What, you all saw that bad joke coming.

Due to some lingering network issues, the migration has been delayed until evening PST. That means you've got about 12-14hrs of fap time left until the site goes out for 8-10hrs.

Noted.

It's a good thing I don't normally fap to the art here on this site. But it will still be missed.

You see.. unlike FA, we believe in telling you that the site will be down BEFORE it does. not after.

Aurali said:
You see.. unlike FA, we believe in telling you that the site will be down BEFORE it does. not after.

We're privileged to be in a position where we know BEFORE the fact when the site's going to be down - a privilege which all sites generally don't have... so go easy on FA; it's hard to run a site of that size!

However yes, we do try to tell people as soon as possible about these things. :3

Aurali said:
You see.. unlike FA, we believe in telling you that the site will be down BEFORE it does. not after.

And you actually explain why it's down rather than just saying "You can't handle the truth" and maybe deleting the comment.

Varka said:
We're privileged to be in a position where we know BEFORE the fact when the site's going to be down - a privilege which all sites generally don't have... so go easy on FA; it's hard to run a site of that size!

However yes, we do try to tell people as soon as possible about these things. :3

I would go easy on FA if I didn't know the behind the scenes crap about it XD. Maybe I should shut up though.

Migration complete!

Post any problems, comments on the speed/performance you notice here.

Thank you all for being patient while we make this crucial move of our stuff to another datacenter. <3 You're all awesome.

Whew! I came. err.. I mean... .. uh.. ;) Thanks for all your hard work :D So far, so good! Honestly wasn't expecting things to be up and running yet... hope everything went nice and smooth :D

disregard that, uploads are fine and dandy now

I'm having the same problem too.

Never mind it worked, it just took a while.

That was a tricky move, replacing the welcome screen with a picture. ._.

Nobody lost their luggage? ;-)

Ohcool, the server moved to where I live! :D

Every time I try to post something, I get an error message.

What's the error message?

Probably 'Failbooru', the site has been noticeably running a little slower than usual since the move but things eventually start working again.

The error message I get when I try to post a reply to a thread is the following, even though it is my only post in the past several hours.

Error: Hourly limit exceeded

HankHawke said:
The error message I get when I try to post a reply to a thread is the following, even though it is my only post in the past several hours.

Error: Hourly limit exceeded

The error message is misleading, you can't post comments until your account is a week old (assuming your problem is with comments).

Ahhh.

I can download at about 3 MB/s, this site doesn't seem any different as far as speed goes.

This site never ran slow to begin with imo.

it had moments in teh past when it just wouldnt load, but that was ages ago

Only noticeable difference to me is latency..

---
Tracing route to e621.net [184.105.134.9]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 40 ms 40 ms 40 ms tcso-dsl-gw11-203.tcso.qwest.net [75.160.240.203]
3 40 ms 39 ms 40 ms tcso-agw1.inet.qwest.net [75.160.241.81]
4 52 ms 51 ms 53 ms lap-brdr-03.inet.qwest.net [67.14.22.78]
5 53 ms 53 ms 53 ms 63.146.26.22
6 63 ms 62 ms 63 ms sjo-bb1-link.telia.net [80.91.247.171]
7 63 ms 65 ms 63 ms hurricane-113209-sjo-bb1.c.telia.net [213.248.86.54]
8 63 ms 64 ms 71 ms 10gigabitethernet1-1.core1.lax1.he.net [72.52.92.22]
9 74 ms 73 ms 74 ms 10gigabitethernet1-1.core1.phx1.he.net [72.52.92.250]
10 74 ms 73 ms 74 ms 10gigabitethernet2-1.core1.phx2.he.net [184.105.213.18]
11 74 ms 74 ms 74 ms pnap.ioflood.com.gigabitethernet1-10.core1.phx2.he.net [64.71.145.46]
12 74 ms 74 ms 73 ms 184.105.134.9

Had a little blip there for about an hour; needed e621 to stop raping the disk so hard for a bit so I could move a virtual machine across quickly.

Sorry for the outage.

Not a problem. Thanks for letting us know.

Tech stuff. zomg.
*cumshot*

Bck said:
Tech stuff. zomg.
*cumshot*

What?

Try not to be creepy much.
http://e621.net/forum/show/9992

Uh, yeah. For some reason everything on my blacklist is showing now. It was working fine before and I'm pretty sure I didn't change anything since then, so what's the deal?

My blacklist still works perfectly. Have you checked your blacklist recently?

The speed is amazing! Thanks a bunch!

It won't let mm post in the posts i can't put my results or comments

Gotta wait a bit.