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New hardware, no explanation or text needed.

July 21, 2014
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Downtime on our sites today duo to (two) power failures at Serverius

January 30, 2014

Most of our servers were hit today with a total downtime of around an hour duo to power failures at our data center Serverius. Effected sites were rule34.xxx/xbooru.com/booru.org/mspabooru.com/hypnohub.net and some other minor sites.

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In depth analysis of ‘the great Russia firewall’ and site impact

December 9, 2013

Recently we announced that we got requested by ROSKOMNADZOR to take down some hentai on konachan.com. We complied with this by redirecting all Russians to our safe .net version. I have researched the blocking efficiency based on stats provided by … Continue reading →

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Blocking POST requests for abusive ips with nginx

November 5, 2013

In the past we received abuse, especially from a certain ISP in Brazil. This was stopped by putting all IP ranges from this ISP in the iptables. This method was not preferable because it blocked complete access to the site. … Continue reading →

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Nginx microcaching

October 9, 2012

Today i found a post on howtoforge about nginx microcaching. The post seemed interesting so here are my benchmark results. Test machine hardware: 2X Intel E5-2620 (12 cores, 24 hypertreaded) 128GB ECC REG DDR3 RAM (16X8GB) 10X Seagate Momentus XT … Continue reading →

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New server

September 21, 2012

In the next couple of weeks we’ll be installing a new server for the following sites: Rule34.xxx, safebooru.org, xbooru.com, furry.booru.org, size.booru.org The server has the following specs: 2X Intel E5-2620 (12 cores, 24 hypertreaded) 128GB ECC REG DDR3 RAM (16X8GB) … Continue reading →

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DNS failover for cloudflare with monit

August 27, 2012

We use Cloudflare for our sites and for a while i been wanting to have a server switchover when my primary servers fails. Cloudflare says they are working on a feature for it but i really can’t wait for that. … Continue reading →

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