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   Artefact
   

   For those wondering what happened, and in the hopes of heading off a stream of redundant posts, please allow me to explain what caused the recent disruptions to the site, and to offer my apologies for the inconvenience inflicted on so many people.

   The server housing the main portion of the site suffered a catastrophic hardware failure and needed to be completely reinstalled. No data was lost, although the complete reinstall proved unexpectedly eventful.

   The DNS servers for the site happened to be housed on this machine as well, which soon caused the other servers to drop off the Internet.

   They were soon restored, but as a result of the interruption and reconfiguration they had to re-propagate throughout the tens of thousands of DNS servers which hold the Internet's domain name system together, a process which can take mere minutes in the case of many servers, but unfortunately with slower ISPs or results which are cached on the user's machine can take days to be refreshed. Patience is all that is required to fix this issue, although complaining to an ISP probably helps as well.

   This accounts for the apparent inaccessibility of all or part of the site many worried users began reporting - as good a story as they might make, rumours of the site being censored by the powers that be are wholly without basis in fact.

   The forums also suffered a series of technical issues as a result of the reinstall, and this accounts for their absence over the period.

   Steps have been taken to ensure no future re-occurrence of this particular disaster - once again, please accept my apologies for the inconvenience and evident worry inflicted on users finding the site to be unavailable.

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2. 

   Lens
   

   You are forgiven if you make a Vipper challenge article!

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3. 

   Suicider (Banned Terrorist)
   

   Thank you for your hard work.

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4. 

   tingle
   

   Thanks Arte

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5. 

   MasterInfamous
   

   All I know is that the forums is back. And that's all the forgiveness that is.

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6. 

   Kei-chan
   

   Thanks for the hard work on getting this all back up.

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7. 

   steven
   

   thanks i was haveing withdraws lol

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8. 

   brningpyre
   

   Same here. Thanks for fixing the site, and even responding to my emails while you were so busy.

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9. 

   Palmtop Tsundere
   

   Stupid Sankaku-kun, don't ever do that again! I thought you were dead!

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10. 

    Sorrior
    

    I think we all got a glimpse of a world without internet. I didn't like it. But yeah thx for this explanation and it woulda been hella cool if we had made it to mass censor town.

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11. 

    桂 言葉 死
    

    ~ Thanks again Artefact Sir!

    Your hard work, prompt attention to this matter, is very much appreciated and - THANKS - for dispelling any - "contrived theories" - that may have arisen or have (yet) been given birth to.

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12. 

    tingle
    

    might want to make a facebook page or seperate blog to tell poeople the status if things go down.

    I'm glad to have you back I missed it.

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13. 

    Lucifer
    

    I guess It wasn't so bad, a day or two break from Sancom made me regain my sanity abit.

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14. 

    Kurodo
    

    Good thing everything is getting back to normal. At least nothing of value was lost.

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15. 

    Poyo The Great
    

    I thought the forum service were canceled....

    *disappointed*

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16. 

    Kasumi
    

    Weee I just called my ISP to see if they were blocking the site...

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17. 

    Vicious
    

    to be fair i was only paranoid enough to think my college isp had caught up to my ero ways... :)

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18. 

    Sukunai
    

    god some people :)

    If the site had been gone you know, like a full week, it might have meant something.

    Why so many panic on internet forums escapes me.

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19. 

    Kasumi
    

    Sukunai said:
    god some people :)

    If the site had been gone you know, like a full week, it might have meant something.

    Why so many panic on internet forums escapes me.

    Forums? I want my smut and articles on how nasty China is...

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20. 

    StefanKinoshita
    

    Lol. I send an email asking what was going on and a few hours later everythings working again.
    Without SanCom my sanity was flowing away... or coming back, I'm not sure which. :D

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