News Archive: Week 30, 2011

The Polka-Dotted Handkerchief on a Stick has been revamped into the Handkerchief Wrapped Box, which can only be found in the Cash Shop!

Customers who have been complaining that some of the older items at the Clothing Rack are starting to smell a little musty will be pleased to learn that they\'ve been taken off the shelves! If it still seems kind of grody in there to you, fret not; Mauve may be doing some more cleaning in the near future...

The Recycle beast is requesting new items! Also, congratulations to ShadowFax for winning a Glade Potion in the Potion Lottery!

Subtle has won the Pet Spotlight!

You can never have enough tanks, according to the Clothing Rack.

The Clothing Rack would like to remind you that retirements will be happening very soon. Are you prepared?

The Recycle beast is requesting new items! Also, congratulations to Serena922003 for winning a Dark Matter Potion in the Potion Lottery!

Elysium has won the Pet Spotlight!

This bird has been injured, but all things heal over time. ❤

The Dipper is now a Free Gift.

Hi everyone, we've been working really hard on the server situation in preparation for Blake Steeles most recent adventure!

We've been internally testing a new server software package recently, called NGinx. This provides a lot of benefits over Apache (which is what we use now!) including a smaller memory footprint and increased ability to serve pages. For example, right now our nginx server is running at 1.2GB of memory used, while hte apache servers (with the same amount of user load) are using 4GB of memory.

Here is our current graph of resources. The web server accounts for the light blue portion, which you can see is almost nonexistent now!

Right now we're running on 5 web servers. 4 of them are running apache, and one is running Nginx. We have an excellent opportunity to watch the load on all of these servers, and hope that over the next few weeks we switch to a nginx-only setup.

Thank you for your patience, and we hope to keep improving the speed of the site! ❤

No doubt some of you have noticed that the crypts are unavailable due to a, er, "explosives related mishap", and are really missing your daily dose of adventure. Why, what's that I hear? Oh, it's me, inviting you to an even more awesome adventure in the distant and exotic Sacred Lands!

Imagine there was a dramatic flourish of music there, please. I should have set something up with a tape recorder of some kind, something with some guitar-- Actually, do they make tape recorders anymore? Or tapes, for that matter? I imagine they make digital recorders, but is it a tape recorder if there is no tape? Food for thought.

Where was I? Oh, adventure! Right! We're accepting all levels of skill for this expedition, so if you are sick of being an ineffectual desk-jockey, come on down to <a href=/explore/steele/excavation.php?act=Blake>my digsite and I'll give you a rundown of what we're up to.

A new trivia question has been added!

The Recycle beast is requesting new items! Also, congratulations to Evy for winning a Field Potion in the Potion Lottery!

Computer Geek Quests is the weekend quest! Do those quests for increased prizes and special rewards!

Citian has won the Pet Spotlight!

The Token Shop has graciously brought back an old favorite, the very sweet cupcake sticker! Perfect for that friend harboring a large sweet tooth.

The Recycle beast is requesting new items! Also, congratulations to Yeleste for winning a Arid Potion in the Potion Lottery!

Stafford has won the Pet Spotlight!

Fashion continues to change around Subeta, and the Fringe Magazine Summer 2011 Edition is leading the charge! It can only be found in the Cash Shop!

The Recycle beast is requesting new items! Also, congratulations to Adina for winning a Chibi Potion in the Potion Lottery!