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• At first I thought you shut down the site. or something like that. then I thought to go to lllost.com , and them I went to twitter.At least MediaTemple was supportive. Still I think they should be more careful next time about what is going on. Anyways I remember hearing something about the heist 2, is it the final stage of beta or something?

  outofthefog— 2 Days ago

• I was worried until I saw you updated llllost.com (I have it email when JTS's and llllost.com's RSS is updated) and I saw the check Twitter image and that cleared some things up. Remember to check Twitter everyone!

  Runey676— 2 Days ago

• I thought Safari was acting up.

  ThePika— 2 Days ago

• Is llllost.com a alias of JTS? In other words, do you guys own it? I was sort of worried :( I actually thought you released heist 2 and the insane traffic (of all your loving fans!) crashed the site XD The thought was fleeting, but cool. Im glad everything is sorted out :) I got to see new heist pictures on llllost :P

  pianite— 2 Days ago

• I was getting worried and thought that you whole website was deleted or something. Then I went to the extent of rebooting my computer, but after that I though I will wait a couple of days....

  ata95— 2 Days ago

• I was just hoping you guys back your information up just incase, cause I know I don't haha and someday its gonna screw me over...

  projectfinale— 2 Days ago

• i was seriously worried that jts, the site i know and love, was playing an EPIC game with our minds. but then i thought "naw, they love us too much to mess with us sooooo bad." i turned out to be right XD. glad you guys are back again.

  mitch123456789— 2 Days ago

• I'm glad we didn't go down unnoticed. http://llllost.com is our image blog.

  meridimus— 2 Days ago

• Yes, i did miss you Max. But thank God for Twitter!

  mk0092— 2 Days ago

• I thought I got banned from the site cause I had such a low level lol ;D

  skillownz101— 2 Days ago

• Me too! I thought I was banned :(

  mrgoo99— 2 Days ago

• Good to see you guys are moving up! Good job.

  PK_Nugget— 2 Days ago

• whew i tought you shut down the site; ]

  lioko8— 2 Days ago

• i thought it had something to do with the heist 2

  griffinpug5— 2 Days ago

• Well, I hope we don't let you down when The Heist 2 is released. The cool thing about our servers is, when we get a traffic spike it does what's called "load balancing", essentially, copies the entire site to other servers until the load is back to optimal and then, when the spike is over, scales itself back.The best thing is this all happens automatically, all of the time. As you can guess, it's pretty complicated (ask yourself the question, if someone posts a forum topic, how does it merge across all the servers?). This is also the reason for the downtime we just had, the original servers were experimental and while the new servers are still experimental, they're based on the lessons learned from the original versions.Any problems we could face in the future will hopefully be much more contained and I can confirm that we're fully moved to the new servers as of now.In answer to ProjectFinale, we set-up automated backups to the Amazon S3 servers every night and take local and distributed copies in the morning. The worst case scenario is we have to go back a single day.Luckily, MediaTemple also take their own backups too so we're covering a number of bases just-in-case.

  meridimus— 2 Days ago

• Well it's good to know we have extra backups of the site! lol When I first read this I thought it said the heist 2 is released, I was like SWEEET! lol that got my hopes down :( ☺

  outofthefog— 2 Days ago

• I know someone who's site is like that. They use amazon's servers and they have a script that buys them and sells servers. They can be turned off and on in 1 minute and it only costs a buck or 2 an hour. So they always have enough bandwidth and they save tons of money :D The only downside is, if you start using a server, even for just 20 seconds, your charged an hour :(

  pianite— 1 Day ago

• Yeah, I've been reading up on Amazon EC2 (it means "Elastic Cloud"). It seems like a great idea and I'm already using S3 for the backups. I worked out the costs and it's a lot more expensive on Amazon servers although they're really cool. MediaTemple suits us for now.

  meridimus— 1 Day ago

• Yeah, you guys have DV?I use hostmonster personally for my little site :) A lot of disk and bandwidth :o

  pianite— 19 Hours ago

• No, we used (gs) because (dv) performs badly for us. We need distributed servers because a single server just doesn't do enough for us.What's your site?

  meridimus— 10 Hours ago

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