We're Sorry...

From the desk of the System Administrator, asiandude6969.

Saturday, February 11, 2012, 1:32 PM Pacific

Due to a hard drive failure, the site is closed until this issue is resolved. I would like to kindly remind our members that we're an old site that has not done a server upgrade in 5+ years... Donations to help for a better site and upgrade would be greatly appreciated.

Saturday, Feburary 11, 2012, 4:36 PM Pacific

Appropriate action has been raised with our hosting provider. Rest assured, the hard drive failure has not caused a total and complete data loss.

I have found out in the course of fixing this issue with our hosting provider, that we will have to move the server to another data center with a new server. So we will be migrating the data from one server to another. Sorry folks, but we'll be back online as soon as we can, but unfortunately that may take awhile.

Saturday, Feburary 11, 2012, 9:29 PM Pacific

I am setting up the new server and copying the data over. Thanks for your patience.

Saturday, Feburary 11, 2012, 10:38 PM Pacific

Data copy of 500 GB of the gallery is in progress. Data transfer is from Houston to Dallas. Also remaining: setting up the new server and testing if the old code will work on the new server. Sorry folks, I can't tell how much time that will take to copy the data over. 
For those geeks out there, here is details on our old server specifications:
  	 Motherboard	  	 Dell Single Socket 800FSB - Quad Core Capable PowerEdge R200
  	 Processor	  	 Intel 2.83 GHz 1333FSB Xeon 3360 Quad Core
  	 RAM slot 1	  	 OEM Standard DDR2 667 ECC [1024MB]
  	 RAM slot 2	  	 OEM Standard DDR2 667 ECC [1024MB]
  	 RAM slot 3	  	 OEM Standard DDR2 800 ECC [1024MB]
  	 RAM slot 4	  	 OEM Standard DDR2 800 ECC [1024MB]
 	 	 
  	 Drive Controller	  	 Generic \ Onboard \ SATA
  	 Hard Drive 1	  	 Seagate 500GB:SATA:7200rpm ST3500630AS [500GB]
  	 Hard Drive 2	  	 Seagate 500GB:SATA:7200rpm ST3500630AS [500GB]

Our new server:
  	 Motherboard	  	 SuperMicro X9SCI-LN4F Intel Xeon SingleProc SATA [1Proc]
  	 Processor	  	 Intel Xeon-SandyBridge E3-1270-Quadcore [3.4GHz] 
  	 RAM slot 1	  	 Hynix DDR3 2GB DDR3 x8 [2GB] 
  	 RAM slot 2	  	 Hynix DDR3 2GB DDR3 x8 [2GB] 
  	 RAM slot 3	 	 Empty 
  	 RAM slot 4	 	 Empty

Now, there's a surprise with the hard drives... we'll reveal when the site comes back online.
You can follow our status updates on Twitter: the y!Gallery twitter for more information.

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