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  1. Reapers and Spammers and Bots, Oh, My!

    Author:  Administrator erin's blog Taxonomy upgrade extras:  General Audience (pg) The site was down for a few hours today while Piper and I fought off some reaper bots. We firewalled their ISPs, all of which were in China, and while we were at it, w ...

    - 2013/04/15 - 2:59am - 10 comments

  2. We're back!

    Author:  Administrator erin's blog Taxonomy upgrade extras:  General Audience (pg) Many, many thanks to Piper for about 14 hours of hard work! We are up and running on a different server. Now all we have to do is acquire a new server to replace poor ...

    - 2013/04/16 - 11:07pm - 9 comments

  3. Hatbox Updated! New Premium Story!

    The sidebar with the kitty has been updated for April, we've already raised $690 dollars for this month's goal. And, we have a new story in the Hatbox Premium directory, Angela Rasch donated a story called "Alleviate Suffering." Here&# ...

    - 2014/02/19 - 6:23pm - 7 comments

  4. I think we lost a story Monday night...

    erin's blog Author:  Administrator Blog About:  Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Taxonomy upgrade extras:  General Audience (pg) I think we may have lost a story in the database meltdown last night. We had made a backup of what was going on at one ...

    - 2013/04/17 - 8:41am - 4 comments

  5. Hey! We made it through the night!

    Author:  Administrator erin's blog Taxonomy upgrade extras:  General Audience (pg) And things look like they are going good. ...

    - 2013/04/19 - 9:08am - 4 comments

  6. We were NOT attacked, per se...

    We use the terms Spider, Crawler, and Reaper pretty much interchangeably here. You see, they ALL cause traffic. While Robots/Spiders/Crawlers/Reapers are about 1/3 of our traffic on BigCloset, most of that is VALID traffic. Sites like Google, Bing, Baidu ...

    - 2014/02/19 - 6:23pm

  7. Upgrade Equipment Ordered

    We couldn't wait any longer so today I ordered drives and memory to upgrade our three servers that do most of the work of running BigCloset and other sites so important to our community. It cost $840 dollars and we will have a small shipping cost to ...

    - 2014/02/19 - 6:23pm - 6 comments

  8. Still tuning the server

    erin's blog Author:  Administrator Blog About:  Internet / Software / Computers / Websites Taxonomy upgrade extras:  General Audience (pg) We hope you have noticed that things are slowly getting better as we tune the server for better performance but ...

    - 2013/04/24 - 8:40am - 5 comments

  9. Cache Glitch

    Piper's blog Author:  Administrator Blog About:  Internet / Software / Computers / Websites Taxonomy upgrade extras:  General Audience (pg) For those that saw it, sorry about the cache glitch. We are constantly trying to tune, and improve performance ...

    - 2013/04/28 - 2:26pm - 3 comments

  10. Welcome to our new home- we are now live on Eva

    erin's blog Author:  Administrator Blog About:  Internet / Software / Computers / Websites Taxonomy upgrade extras:  General Audience (pg) We are now live on Eva with BC but the following list of sites will be down probably for another day or so: ...

    - 2013/04/27 - 9:14pm - 18 comments

  11. Problems

    Author:  Administrator erin's blog Taxonomy upgrade extras:  General Audience (pg) We may have some files that have been corrupted, perhaps during the crashes on Magda. ...

    - 2013/04/28 - 12:58pm - 11 comments

  12. Sites Online/Offline Status

    Just an FYI, Here are the current statuses of various websites we host: BigCloset--> Online CrystalHall--> Online Stardust--> Online TuckerSpawn--> Online Quillain--> Online SamValentine--> Online TGLibrary--> Online Fictioneer--> ...

    - 2014/02/19 - 6:23pm

  13. Please Log Off and Log Back On

    erin's blog Author:  Administrator Blog About:  Internet / Software / Computers / Websites Taxonomy upgrade extras:  General Audience (pg) Due to a change in our security settings, it may be necessary to logoff and log back on in order to reset your ...

    - 2013/05/03 - 7:15am - 1 comment

  14. This Might Be A Help to Readers

    Author:  Administrator Briar's blog Taxonomy upgrade extras:  General Audience (pg) I was having difficulty yesterday in accessing an older story with many chapters, so took my older computer and connected it and using AOL Version 1 instead of 9.6 th ...

    - 2013/05/06 - 1:59pm - 1 comment