Cloudflare

FYI, this post is mostly technical info and stuff you probably don't care about.

For what it's worth, I'd like to tell you about Cloudflare. I heard about this free website optimisation and caching service from one of the blogs I read, Macgasm. When you sign up for Cloudflare, you enter your domain, and Cloudflare pulls all the DNS records currently on that domain. It has you double check the DNS records, and then tells you to change your current nameservers to Cloudflare nameservers. At this point, all requests to your website now go through Cloudflare. Cloudflare caches static images of yours, minifies your Javascript, CSS, and HTML (if you so choose). In addition, Cloudflare offers different "apps" for your domain, like always making sure Google Analytics code is on the page. A big feature of Cloudflare is the fact that it keeps records on abusive clients and hacked browsers, and blocks their requests to your site.

Cloudflare has sped up Toonbook significantly, I mean, I installed Cloudflare yesterday, and look at how much bandwidth it's saved us!

I'd highly recommend Cloudflare to any website owner big or small.

S3 Migration

I just finished up moving media over to Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3). S3 is not housed on Toonbook's server, and provides faster loading times. This will reduce load on our server, so that it can spend more time doing the computational work to serve pages.

In the long run, S3 will provide our users with faster loading times and more reliable storage.

Down... again!

Host suspended us for "spamming"... We're working to clarify the issue and should be back ASAP.

Note that part of this is because some of you have entered fake emails. :D

Hey guess what? Toonbook is down!

We brought the site down to upgrade some features to the newest version. Sorry about going down so often, it's just that we can't do certain things while you guys are online.

Toonbook is down... Again...

Sorry guys, while trying to add a great new feature, I messed something up on Toonbook. We will be back soon. Sorry about this.

Toonbook is down

Toonbook is down so we can fix a few bugs that we can't fix while the site is online. This update should be done within an hour.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Banners

If you have your clan on Toonbook, and wish to advertise them on a forum or website, I created some banners for you. Here they are:

http://i.imgur.com/IqoRo.png

http://i.imgur.com/5xwgH.png

http://i.imgur.com/iFA6d.png

Rounded:

http://i.imgur.com/JXARn.png

http://i.imgur.com/aMjMP.png

http://i.imgur.com/sA7VL.png