The Future of Pixiesticks.org
Hello my friends and fans of the site, Labels: movies, personal, pixiesticks, secret stash, shota, works, yaoi
On Thursday, December 13th, my webhost, Powweb, suspended their hosting of the site. They said that the site pulled too much bandwidth and because they were alerted to the site, they checked it out and decided the content violated their Terms of Service.
I cannot access the records to find out if there was a sudden surge in bandwidth use, but historically the site has never even come close to reaching the monthly amount.
As for the Terms of Service violations, it's pretty much assumed that the site as long as it wasn't causing any bandwidth problems, the yaoi content of the site wasn't really a concern.
In any event, I obtained new webhosting, GoDaddy, and will be canceling my service with Powweb as soon as I can get them to communicate with me. Which, by the way, is proving to be pretty difficult.
Over the last two days I've been putting together the basic mainframe of the site. The five pieces that are familiar to anyone who's been to pixiesticks.org are about, blog, yaoi, works, reviews. There are now working skeletons of each of these parts, as is the link to the Amazon Honor System which is where you can make money donations.
There is absolutely no way I can return all of the archives of the past several years back online like a flip of a switch. It is impractical. It is messy. And it just won't work.
So, going forward, there will be a new blog and new yaoi section.
In the blog, it'll be business as usual in the posting of all sorts of news stories, private personal details, and just randomness. In the future, I will attempt to bring back the old blog archives so they aren't completely lost to time. This is as much for me as it is for anyone else. I just need to figure out how to do it without breaking anything.
In the yaoi, it'll also be business as usual in the posting of yaoi and shota pictures I find or people draw and send to me. There will NOT be an attempt to bring back the old yaoi archives, the Now Playing video section, or the secret stash. We will be building new archives going forward. I can't just upload all that stuff back up on the site right away and expect it to work. I am sorry if this causes anyone to be upset.
As for the other sections there have been minimal changes.
The about page finally makes logistical sense in being named about.html. It also has a new description and webmaster photo. In the future, the webmaster photo gallery and other personal information about me will be added.
The works page will be more logistically organized when it returns fully in the future. Currently, it has a slightly altered look with the addition of the most recent completed manuscript called "Later, Skater." In addition, all of the smaller short stories and poetry has been returned to the site.
The reviews page has been uploaded with no changes necessary since it was a glorified text file.
I know that change is hard for people. I know that a lot of you are new to the site, and that most of you only came for the yaoi. I know that some of you have followed pixiesticks.org for years. Some since the beginning. I want you to all continue to come back to my site, but understand if what's happened makes you want to delete your bookmark and move on.
I've only lost my webhosting once before when it comes to pixiesticks.org. It happened two years after the creation of the site, back in 2003. It's been twice that long now and it hurts more than twice as much.
But I think it happened for a reason. That there are lessons I need to learn from this. And that I need to take this chance to somewhat start again fresh. The site may not run smoothly for a while. Things are probably still going to break because I'm not a very good webmaster when it comes to programming html. And blogger is probably going to continue to give me a hard time.
However, I hope that all of this can turn out for the best.
--Love Always,
--PIXIE
5 comments
I cant wait to see you back up, and running like normal again. My best luck to you in all this since im a fan of this site.
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Monday, December 17, 2007 9:29:00 PM
I've been visiting this site for a couple of years now and I've enjoyed every second of it. Thank you for your hard work. I'm glad that you will continue updating the site. I wish you luck and, since we're already in December, Merry Cristmas and Happy New Year.
By , at
Tuesday, December 18, 2007 3:24:00 AM
Oh well...Im going to miss that "Gamerz Heaven remix" but thanks for getting it back together. {HTML is a bitch!}
By , at
Sunday, December 30, 2007 6:01:00 PM
NNNNAAAAOOOOOOHHHHH!!!!!!!! ;(
At least there will be moar.
By , at
Tuesday, January 08, 2008 7:42:00 PM
Thats realy a shame : ( There was so much yaoi and shota on this site! But as it is a great site, new things will be added so succes and keep up the good job!
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Sunday, January 13, 2008 5:03:00 PM
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