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For your information, tonight the database will be completely cleared. I hope to reduce the server load by removing the unused data and deleting inactive user ribbons who will not redo their ribbons set.

I am sorry for the inconvenience, I know that it may take time to redo your ribbon again and it may not be your favourite thing to do, but I need to reduce the server load the best I can.

Does this mean that (If we choose to do so) we can use the website to display our ribbons in our sig? (I for one am nearly constantly updating them)

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You are allowed to use the website to display your ribbons, but it add loads on the server. What I recommend is that if you update them a lot like you do you keep them on the website, else you upload it somewhere else

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You are allowed to use the website to display your ribbons, but it add loads on the server. What I recommend is that if you update them a lot like you do you keep them on the website, else you upload it somewhere else

You sir are awesome! Here, have some Rep!

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Yes, I wiped everything to try and improve performance. You will have to create a new user.

Sorry for the inconvienience

Damnit... and I just went through a week ago and fully updated all of my ribbons.... and now I have a couple more changes to make.

Oh well.. guess I'll do it again!

~Steve

PS

This is an awesome community addition... been using it since inception.

FYI

Server seems a bit borked right now...

EDIT

Odd... I didn't have to set up a new account.

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You sir are awesome! Here, have some Rep!

Thanks :P

PS

This is an awesome community addition... been using it since inception.

Thank you :)

FYI

Server seems a bit borked right now...

It is possible that the previews doesn't show up correctly, because of the heavy loads

EDIT

Odd... I didn't have to set up a new account.

If you created it before Mars 29th, you are fine :)

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Eh, it's not that big of a problem to create a new user, or update my Ribbons. Doubt it would take 15 minutes, if that. I think you are doing an awesome job. I haven't even used my ribbons as a sig file yet, just a way for me to see that I'm actually making progress. Plus they look pretty... I actually landed a crew on Eeloo and got them back home, with stock parts! (Okay, I used mechjeb, but I'm clumsy at the keyboard interface, and I studied astronomy and math in college so I know what mechjeb is doing anyway... Just better than I could) Again thanks for doing this, and I seconded the fact that this is a wonderful addition to the community.

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It certainly help :)

If there is any experienced PHP dev. here that is willing to check my code, it could give a great boost. I'm pretty sure my code is pretty ugly

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Will it help ease the burden if we host it on something else like imgur? Like I have in my sig at the moment. Or does it not make any difference?

It might be simpler to just upload the image to the forums; that's what I've done (and please don't tell me that that adds extra load to Moustachauve's server, the forums have no way of knowing where the image originally came from). If anything, the forums should be optimized for the kind of download pattern that signature images produce, and it's less work than updating an imgur link.

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I'm having an issue with registration where it's not sending out the e-mail confirmation. Is anyone else having this issue?

That is weird... Probably the email needs more time to travel to you. I manually activated your account, so you should be able to login

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My host asked me to reduced traffic or sanction would occur, so I took action to keep the generator alive.

If you'd like help finding a different host who doesn't have this restriction, or help getting a VPS please PM me. 133k views isn't a crazy amount of traffic. At the very least we could upload the completed ribbons to S3 and probably pay $5/mo. I think the value of having the ribbons hosted is quite high.

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Rough pricing is $7.5/month to use S3. It's $0.12/GB, and I calculated you doing about 2GB/day. So maybe $10/month. If you did it this way, the assets would load faster, and would cause 0 load on your servers.

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I don't really know how the S3 thing work, but if it is only something to automatically host my images from my website, I could just use the Imgur API that upload the ribbons from my website and return to you the imgur link.

My host is costing my 4 Canadian dollars per month, I have unlimited storage space and unlimited bandwidth

This is the deal I actually have (My contract will end at the end of May) : http://www.hostpapa.ca/web-hosting-plan/

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I made a little update on the main page. The preview images should now show most of the time. Previously, I was lucky if I had more than 3 loading properly. Now when I tested it, they all loaded correctly :)

This little update make the website feel way more fast and responsive, I hope you will enjoy it :)

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I made a little update on the main page. The preview images should now show most of the time. Previously, I was lucky if I had more than 3 loading properly. Now when I tested it, they all loaded correctly :)

This little update make the website feel way more fast and responsive, I hope you will enjoy it :)

Excellent update Moustachauve, everything is loading properly

for me and everything seems to be much faster and smoother now.

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To the host: I recommend just turning off the option to host signatures on your site. Asking people nicely won't work.

To the users: There are dedicated image hosting sites that are free, fast, and popular. I recommend this one.

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Thank you for the positive feedback :)

I don't want to force people to use image hosting service, the purpose of my app is to be the simplest way to generate ribbons, so I want it to stay like it is

About the sun flag, you would need to ask jfjohnny5, the one who created them (You can find a link to his thread in the FAQ page on my website)

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