Let me start off by explaining the server problems in a little more detail than Bob gave, and give my feelings on it. For the site move, yes I was ready, yes I made sure this site was ready and kept it updated here, and yes I expected something to screw up. I am greatly dissappointed at tuxedomask.com for the way they arranged their bandwidth policy. I can understand why they started one, but the way they started using it is unacceptable. Basically, in the first two couple days of August, all webmasters having a site there got an e-mail telling us of the new policy, and everything regarding it. However, there was a slight flaw I noticed, and that was that they said all sites would have 6GB alloted bandwidth in JULY. After Bob told me he thought SMU would have to move, I figured I had to worry about MKBO (and glad I did, it would've lasted like only 2 more days) and went to the bandwidth indicator and saw that it said 6GB for this month, which confused me. Now, I wasn't worried about MKBO the same way Bob was worried about SMU, I didn't think there would be a problem for MKBO with the new restriction until Bob showed worry of SMU, and seeing that he was worried knew I should be scared, because MKBO is known for having the LD covers and that would use a lot of bandwidth. So I talked to Ryusan, and she agreed to host both sites, and I immeditely moved them. I deleted all of MKBO off of tuxedomask.com and made the ryusan.net one the only one up, and announced it everywhere, and changed the link here. I wanted to do the same with SMU, but Bob thought we would be ok. I don't blame him though, with the bandwidth indicator saying we had 6GB for the month. Sure I laughed when I first saw that page saying SMU was down, but I can't blame him for not worrying too much, he has his other stuff to worry about too. I blame the lack of service given to us by tuxedomask.com for the problems. They sent their mail on it meant for July in August, and just made the enforcement change with no warning whatsoever. I find this highly unfair not only to us, but also the other webmasters of sites that got unexpectedly shut down, and the many site goers to all those sites. I believe they owe everyone an apology for this, and put all the sites back up, and give the ones who need to move some time to move and put their new URL on their tuxedomask.com site like I was able to do just in time. They started this policy very poorly, and everyone deserves that much. Having said all that, let's move on to the actual content of today's update, as you all very well know I hate non-content updates.
Going through my normal daily routine last night, I found some interesting news. It's not really big, but worth posting. Head on over to the misc section to see the news. Also, the taping of the first season dub has been going well, I'm going to be sending Bob a bunch of tapes near the end of the month or beginning of September which will include the first 20 episodes of the first season, and every episode from R with the exception of the Doom Tree episodes, as when I noticed that my local Fox was airing Sailor Moon, I checked to see where they were, and they were smack dab in the middle of those episodes, so I'll have to get those after the first season ends. So just wait as Bob finishes up the movies, then the comparisions for the first two seasons will begin.
August 21st, 2001
Dan - Ranting and new news
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