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Even with the site closed for the most part, seems like haywire bots are still an issue for this site... I don't know what they're doing just making countless searches everywhere, but few bans and we're back to normal operation. I honestly haven't check this server in a while, so... it was probably at terrible speeds for a while now.

Guess when batoto was blocked from tl-ing TOG and co it really was downhill from there. Feels like OneManga going down all over again.

Thanks for all you've done, especially for the korean manwha and webnovel scene. I followed some of the Company's work from when you were still on your own, and wish you the best for the future.

This will be my first, last, and only post on the forums.

See you space cowboy...

Probably my final post here, and probably nobody will read it. 2018 is starting off rough. Goodbye everyone, and good luck.

Y'all were tipped off in advance and the rest of us now takes the brunt.

yeah, right.
 
no one is happy about what is happening but you're just making up conspiracy theories to feel better about the whole thing.

I made a special discord server for bato survivors...

uhh... the official one is not going anywhere... ._.

seeeems like someone is M.I.A. >.>

gonna unlock it for now (old chapters should appear within an hour). aplogies for any stress/etc. it may have caused
 

Fair enough, man. XD Fair enough. For what it's worth, I've been around since the early Tower of God days, I just don't pay much attention to the community or staffing changes. In the end, you're probably right. I just felt like I had to try.

I feel your pain too, I used to have a whole lot of people to talk to here about a whole lotta manga, but not anymore. I personally refuse to break the rules of the comment sections ("If posting Plot Details" and that means any details) and most of the people who used to use the forums to actually discuss manga/whatever (like you're supposed to) just gave up and started treating the comment sections like a forum (spoiling every new reader that makes the mistake of looking there before he starts the title) because they saw what way the wind was blowing and that the site/staff wasn't/couldn't do anything about it.

Oh well, I go to mangafox when I actually want to talk about a mainstream title, at least they've got forums (and rules that get enforced)   that aren't hampered by the youtube/facebook-esque, 5-second-attention-span comment section bullshit like Batoto is.

Just curious (I work as a sysadmin), what kind of hardware does this master server have?

If it's running a reasonably new linux distro, you could try using the tracing tools like SystemTap to try and figure out where's the bottleneck (tho something easier like a default netdata install may suffice if the root cause is not too esoteric)

I think everything is migrated now. Everything that matters anyway...

If something is broken but was working before, please report here. Thank you.

p.s. I know the flash uploader is sometimes working and sometimes not working. Just refresh a few times or a different browser. It's weird... I know. Or use remote upload.

p.p.s. Batoto Twitter: @BatotoStatus Bookmark or follow for these kind of stuff. I can't use the forums to say stuff if the forums is down. I don't use it unless I have something to say about the status though. So... don't ask me questions there.

So I've been posting bits and pieces on the twitter and twitter is just so darn short...
 
Batoto runs on number of servers and there's one main server that's at the helm of all other servers. It controls what processing goes where, balances the load and handles certain key features including uploads.
 
I may be over personifying, but every computer/server has a personality. And you tend to see it more when you push it to the max. This main server has been finicky for quite some time. Sometimes it doesn't boot up right... Sometimes when it's pushed to extremes, it just starts being an ass. It's always made my maintenance longer than expected and a large reason to a huge chunk of downtime in percentage. 
 
Like the last tweet on May 17th (part1 part2) was about this server too. Whether it was intentional DDoS or a swarm of haywire bots (they happen surprisingly often... *cough* baidu *cough*), I didn't bother to investigate, but that ignited the jerkwad mode and the precipice of downtime. About 70%+ of my time sink and downtime was due to that. Historically, that wasn't even the worst event, but I don't intend to start another story time. Generally, after much effort, it goes back to being normal.
 
Today though... It just went poof. With no visible cause. Rather, it was it going poof that made me think it was having abnormal traffic as the outflow was off because it wasn't juggling the load properly.
 
It's still running. And throwing no errors. No error logs relating to hardware. Temperatures fine. etc. Everything says it's fine. But it's running at like 1/10th of the speed. And no matter how much I try to console it, doesn't seem to change.
 
So, I took the last resort and signed a new server entirely. Hooked everything up. And this is how performance has been restored now. (Would appreciate some donations. Actually not behind much since I'll be cancelling the previous later and I stick with monthly contracts.)
 
The main server is doing very little right now and adding even a tiny bit more would make it cry again.
 
The new server still needs to be handed over more of less demanding but still numerous tasks including handling of uploads (which is next in priority) (upload now complete). Once all of that is done, it will be the new main server. Do expect some minor down times as I still progress with this. But we should generally be online without super lag we've been seeing all day.
 
I'll keep y'all updated with any significant progress.

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I thought that died out along with ending your sentences with "...not".

So how do I hide the announcement sidebar?