One less furry art site

[giza]

So apparently, the owner of Furry Art Pile up and decided to close the site last night.

No warning. No notice. Just gone. *poof*

I feel badly for the artists who lost any artwork or commission info from the site.

Guess I'll be visiting ArtSpots a lot more in the future.

Comments

[skiprudder]

Honestly I haven't found any site yet that I find as easy to use as FA. If something offers me a compelling reason to go, I'll go, but I like FA's format, management, and the people using it.

[giza]

You might want to give Artspots or Yiffit a try.

[skiprudder]

That's my point though, if all my needs are met why try those? I guess I'm just curious as to what about FA usage sent folks to other sites?

[giza]

> That's my point though, if all my needs are met why try those?

Oh, gee, I dunno... maybe to, you know... try something different?

> I guess I'm just curious as to what about FA usage sent folks to other
> sites?

I think the month of downtime might have had something to do with it.

[zenmouse]

So, riddle me this...

If you were running colo'd free art site of that magnitude that experienced hardware failure the month before Anthrocon, how long would it take you to get it back up, and why?

Honestly, I feel this has little to do with the website and MUCH to do with its administrators. I'm not trying to convince you to change your opinion, but I don't think you're being very forthcoming with the truth behind your preference.

[triggur]

Okay first, as has been patiently explained by a multitude of people who do large scale sites for a living, FA is not anything reasonably referred to as "that magnitude." It's a tiny hole-in-the wall site with dead simple content. Furries seem to like to think it's the Google of the fandom, but seriously. It's not.

Second, also explained at length by said professionals, they've made a staggering series of extremely poor choices in their hardware choices, software design, and hosting decisions. It's been like a clown-car of mistakes made with other peoples' money. This, plus a basic knowledge of the personality disorders displayed by its owner, add up to "disgruntled."

So to answer your question, "If you were running colo'd free art site of that magnitude that experienced hardware failure the month before Anthrocon, how long would it take you to get it back up"...

...the answer is probably somewhere in the range of "a few hours or maybe a day or two."

And it wouldn't cost $16,000.

[zenmouse]

Good, I wasn't putting that as a proof of point, I wanted a dead simple answer from an actual professional, as I know the sites Giza deals with. If the delay was a comedy of errors, minus the comedy, then I would agree that a month downtime was a sign of woeful mismanagement. I had my suspicions, and would love to develop a better solution, but current profession and finances prohibit that.

[triggur]

There's nothing unprofessional about the sites Giza deals with.

In fact if anybody understands cost effective high volume load management, it's that industry.

[zenmouse]

Exactly, which was why I asked.

Really, all I want is a good place to put my music. It hasn't been an issue since I having been producing much lately, but there's very few free sites for that. Though the size limitation of FA may soon become an issue.

I spent most of today thinking about whether a professional furry archive is feasible yet. I think we might see it in the next few years, if someone can provide a feature set that would provide enough incentive for furs to subscribe.

[zenmouse]

Oh wait, you think I mean that you're a professional and Giza's not. No, no, no, no. I asked the question in Giza's journal because he IS a professional, and I've been seeing a lot of mixed info on forums.furaffinity.net

[thraxarious]

For $2k-$4k I could build a kickass webserver... Supermicro All the way...

[triggur]

How are your needs met when they're up and down like a yo-yo?