Growing Pains, Hopefully Over
New Home
Ad Astra's new home is now on Washu, which is Mike's own server. I'm sure many of you noticed that the site moves much faster; this is because it doesn't have to compete for resources. The reasons we moved it are numerous, aside the speed, and they are:
1.) We are no longer at the whim of GoDaddy, which was who took Hope Station offline. Hope Station at its peak was not as big as Ad Astra is, and it still got axed. Better safe than sorry.
2.) Backup and restoration is much easier for us on Washu than it was on GoDaddy. We have broader access to control things.
3.) We don't have to worry about the site growth anymore. Moving it now saves us from potentially having to move it when it is a much, much larger site. The bigger a site gets, the harder it is to move. Putting it here now allows us a lot more room to grow without fear.
4.) This puts all elements together; the support services, potential forums and everything else. We can work from one host instead of two.
Those are just four. Now, onto other business.
Login Issues
One way to (hopefully) correct the log-in issues you've been having on this site is by following this procedure:
1.) Log out from your 'Account Info' before all else.
2.) Clear your cookies and browser cache.
3.) Log back in and use the
www.adastrafanfic.com domain. Use it every time. While the SKO subdomain works, computers get confused when they're asked to visit the same site with different URLs.
4.) If you still have a problem, open up a support ticket. There's now a button right up there on the top bar where you can go right to it.
New Stuff
There are a couple new things. Above on the dark blue bar is now a Support link, where you can open a ticket for Mike. Use it when you have troubles, not because we're being pedantic, but because this allows Mike to track long-term issues and fix them.
The second thing is that all links, including the News link on each news post is now fixed. You can read the news all the way back from the very beginning.
All URLs are now standardized. All story stats are correct. You may have lost some edits, but if that's the case, there's nothing we can do. We would definitely like to reiterate that you should always keep a current copy of your own works and reviews, because even though we've busted our butts to keep this place smoothly operating, bad things can happen.
Take comfort that they're far less likely to happen now, but still back up your own work.
Welcome back! I missed you guys, too.
-Steff
