Update Mar 16, 2025:
Website is migrated to the new Server as per our previous mentioned timetable, Amadeus is up-and-running. Depending on your cache, it can take up to 24 hours to connect to the new server. It will be obvious as you will be able to Update again and enter your MyAnimeList user account. The Announcement bar will also stay up for 3 days to ensure that everyone will see the green bar.
You are connecting to the old Server:

You are connecting to the new Server:

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Update Feb 25, 2025:
Contract, Finance, and Contactpersons are finalized and active with DC. Current timetable:
- March 9 > Put Server into Datacenter.
- March 16 > Migrate MAL-Badges (Expected, website will be freezed)
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Update Feb 13, 2025:
We promised that we would use co-location as per our update on the website v20241224.1. Since we only want to deal with companies that do B2B-only when it comes to server, its parts and the (co-location) hosting of it, we had some roadblocks so most of my time went into sorting things out like contracts. My expectation is that we can move our server in a week into the DC, take 1 week to set things up and migrate the website at the end of February.
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Update Mar 2, 2024:
My sincere apologies that it took this long but MAL-Badges is back online! It took this long because we had to transfer TBs of data and we only missed 9 hours of data. Thanks to a friend of mine that helped out and started the back-up process.
Lessons Learnt:
As mentioned before, I will soon terminate the contract that is currently in place for the server as I was not amused with the RCA & support and co-locate another server with better specs to The Netherlands. 2 people I know for 10+ years will receive a physical keycard so they can get to the server in case of emergency (BREAKGLASS) when I'm outside the country.
Development is Slow:
While I don't think I owe any explanation as the service is free, no ads and so on, I still want to touch upon this topic. I had my hands full on:
- Private life when it comes to health (which affected everything; modding & projects)
- The Moderator position on MAL; Answering helpdesk tickets, training potentional kouhais, report queue etc... I appreciate all of the staff and also for their understanding.
- My daily job in itself.
- ...other things that don't need to be disclosed, I was barely on Discord & MAL and I'm in no need of any sympathy.
And now?
Some weeks ago, I saw comments that Amadeus took way too long to restart itself after failure so released a fix for that and slowly wanted to pick-up things again and then all of this happened. Give me a little bit to fix all of the websites and data so I can slowly continue things.
As for the locked comments & threads: The comment section and threads were locked and a Current Status thread was posted to avoid any misunderstandings that the project was stopped. All of them are open again.
As for the code itself: Even if something happens to me, 2 friends of mine have full access to the code and data with BREAKGLASS accounts. It will remain closed-source (especially how the server is set up) and in case anything happens, it can always be set to open-source.
As for tasks: I have never nor will I ever task anyone to do anything for MAL-Badges.
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As I'm currently in Japan, I will have to take a plane to Germany to check and fix/re-install the server as the DC/Host of the server did a massive f*ck-up. It will be online at one point, but just give it some time.
Update Feb 25:
Landed in Germany. Received RCA from DC and not happy with that. A friend already started to backup everything so I can finish that up and re-install it.
Future: Once everything is up-and-running again, I will remotely prepare a second server (colocate) in The Netherlands with better hardware and more configuration possibilities as I have told the current DC I want to leave them. So the website will have another downtime in the future for 1-2 days (DNS) but will be communicated. |