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Hello everyone,

 Sorry about the downtime for the site this past days.

 We are experiencing some problems with the webhost, and I'm looking into it. It appears we are somehow overloading the server, and the account was suspended. I'm working on it, although I have yet to find what is causing this, as traffic to the site has been lower than it was last year.

  Please be patient, and do not upload any new chapters until further notice as I'm going to do a full backup and run a few tests. I will turn off submissions.

 Also, if any of you use a downloader like the Calibre Fanfictiondownloader plugin, the web version of it, or any other, I'll like to know, as this might also be the reason why we are overloading the server. I use the Calibre plugin on occasion, although not recently. There'll be a poll open, please participate as it's really important to check all possible problems.

 Browsing will be available for those wanting to catch up on their reading, but this might change if I upgrade eFiction to the latest version. The site will be down for a couple of hours if that is the case.

 Once again I apologize for the downtime, hopefully it will be resolved in a couple of days.

Animealam

animealam on 15 Jul 2014 5:58 am [21 Comments]
Comments
Thanks for everything. It is a relief to have the page back.
- Janendra on 15 Jul 2014 6:05 am
Thanks Ani. I thought it only happened in my country. Hopefully the site will be okay again soon.
- Zang on 15 Jul 2014 6:07 am
Zang, I thought it only happened in my country as well (Mexico). But the servers and host are in the USA so... Not really country related this time.
- animealam on 15 Jul 2014 6:12 am
Thanks for letting us know.  I was worried our stories were gone.
- JAWorley on 15 Jul 2014 6:42 am
That's okay.  No worries.  Thank you for staying on top of things and trying to solve the problem.  You efforts are appreciated by us all! 
- hpfanficfan on 15 Jul 2014 6:52 am

I've only surfed the site using my computer and my phone, but I've never used any other plugins or apps to do so.

And thanks for everything! I think we can all say that we truly love this site. :) 

- Anthezar on 15 Jul 2014 7:02 am
We had some spammers, perhaps they were trying to overload the site by putting too much spam posts?
- Jan_AQ on 15 Jul 2014 7:12 am

Don't worry about the stories, I'm backing everything up. This is one of the reasons why I'm not allowing submissions for the time being.

I think some bots were the problem, google and a few others were crawling all over the place. Later tomorrow (still the 14 here) I'll know if blocking them is working.

- animealam on 15 Jul 2014 7:16 am

That might be the case Jan, do you know when this was? I have awful troubles with my Internet and I had not been able to check my emails, but the host's people sent the first warning on Friday.

- animealam on 15 Jul 2014 7:18 am
Thanks for the heads-up, it's nice to know that everything's all good. :)
- Lillielle on 15 Jul 2014 7:34 am

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