pulse
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Date: March 23, 2023 08:24AM
So. That was an entertaining week.
I won't bore with the details, but we're back. The porn site is dead.
woberto
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Date: March 23, 2023 09:29AM
woberto
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Date: March 23, 2023 09:33AM
Couldn’t be worse than when the 4fuckr server host burned down...
They gave up and only exist on Discord now.
pulse
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Date: March 23, 2023 10:13AM
Nah; main issue was DK is the only one who knew how this shit hung together at
the back end, and as far as I know is probably dead. And so when things
restarted and nothing could reconnect to each other in the back end; php
accelerators, web servers and databases, nothing would talk, and I haven't
touched Docker in years. Had to quickly learn enough to get things sorted
again.
I could bring the porn site up right now. I just don't want it anymore. I
disabled uploads about 12-18 months ago after it became a huge pain in the ass
of revenge shit; and it just got worse and worse.
I have things back running on the new core from 2020. Now I'm looking at what it
takes to unpick everything and re-host it differently. In a way I know how it
works
Without the porn site, we need about 1/10 the resources to run things, so I can
look at a more economical way of doing things without ads and throwing money at
nothing. It's all been a long time coming, let's see if I can make it work.
Onyma
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Date: March 24, 2023 04:20AM
Congrats on getting it back up and running. I felt lost when I clicked on my
bookmarks and there was... nothing. Should you ever really shut it down hope
there is at least a message board to sign off to some of the old crew still
here.
As for the porn site, for the best. That must have been a nightmare to manage.
That said... so... where is the torrent? Asking for a friend. j/k
pulse
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Date: March 24, 2023 06:52AM
Yeah I'd do something along those lines. Something better than the porn site
anyway (wob's image above).
For now if I can get the rehosting done, and drop the hosting costs without the
porn site, then there's no real reason it can't keep going; but it's unlikely to
ever get another code update.
woberto
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Date: March 24, 2023 11:05AM
We all just assumed you broke it trying to update the IOTW...
pulse
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Date: March 26, 2023 01:03PM
Quote
pulse
For now if I can get the rehosting done, and drop the hosting costs without the
porn site, then there's no real reason it can't keep going; but it's unlikely to
ever get another code update.
plus613.com domain is now running off the new infrastructure. It's 95% complete,
but image uploads aren't working. Not 100% sure where that issue is, but I have
a theory. If I can get it working, I'll cut it over this week. Might lose the
newest images/comments at cutover point though, but we'll see.
It's a bit hard to test as it wants to redirect to plus613.net most of the time,
as we moved to this domain as the primary when we lost access to the old domain
for a few months .. years ago.
Anyway, I've almost got it all working which is kind of neat. It's been
seriously hard work.
pro_junior
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Date: March 26, 2023 04:31PM
Quote
berto: We all
just assumed you broke it trying to update the IOTW...
pro_junior
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Date: March 26, 2023 04:37PM
also, original logo is best logo...
pulse
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Date: March 29, 2023 01:01PM
Live on the new infrastructure.
Let me know if you see anything weirder than normal...
Mrkim
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Date: March 31, 2023 11:34AM
weirder than normal?
Take a hint from Lou Reed and take a walk on the wild side. A 20 minute walk
through Anytown, USA and voila ... you're there
pulse
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Date: January 19, 2026 01:16PM
Hah. I remember this like it was yesterday. I lied when I said no more code
updates above.
In the past nearly 3 years, almost the entire site has been re-written and all
of the hosting infra replaced, both physically and reinstalled OS and
everything.
Actually fairly crazy. The one bit I can't touch is the forum software. I will
never be able to unpick that from the site, which is also why it looks different
when you click on forum (on both mobile and desktop).
I can probably make the header stuff match on desktop. But that's about it. It's
very heavily intertwined.
quasi
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Date: January 19, 2026 01:30PM
Do you still have servers in Miami? I'd be concerned about the increasing
frequency and intensity of hurricanes in a place that has always had a larger
incidence of them.
pulse
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Date: January 19, 2026 01:36PM
Just one server left in Miami, and it's remote backup only but I'm looking at
options to replace it in the near term.
In an emergency it can function as a web front end, and with a few hours it
could host the core of the site, but I've removed it from day to day. All the
other systems in Miami have been scrapped. I got $100 credit or something for
them on my hosting bill, sold them to the hosts. Multiple SUN/Oracle X4100 M2
systems.
Everything runs from Australia now, end-to-end (with the exception of CloudFlare
which does global image caching so hopefully for the most part those load as
fast as if it was hosted closer to you).
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 19/01/2026 01:38PM by pulse.
quasi
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Date: January 19, 2026 10:10PM
The only issue I've seen is an apparent lag in my uploading of images that I
think has been responsible for my recent duplicates.
pulse
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Date: January 19, 2026 11:30PM
Part of the lag will be the AI stuff. It used to process in the background
after image upload, now it does it in realtime. And the slower your upload speed
and the larger the image, the longer it'll also take. The system that processes
uploads has a gigabit internet connection.
The updated duplicate checker should solve the dupes, haven't seen one for a
while so hopefully that's good now.
