I’m going on a hiatus for 1-2 weeks, due to personal, health-related reasons. During that time, I’ll deal with any server issues and problems and script updates as normal should there be any, but all other things will be on hold.

I’ve upgraded the gallery to the latest stable release.

I went through all my sites today, checking that all scripts, plugins etc. were up-to-date and also did some general cleaning. I’m also taking into a use a further refined alert system that makes it possible for me to post hiatus, server problem etc. notices both on my main domain Crystal Fires that must have everything and only to the site in question (when it comes back online) unlike to all my sites like before – it’s also possible post it on the main domain as well as to either all sites if all are affected or to say to 3, if only 3 sites are affected. So less off topic news to each site with this upgrade.

This post works as a test of the refined system: if everything works as it should, this post should show up on all of my sites.

This week’s downtime and errors were because of a failing hard drive, which was detected on the 9th. It affected two of my sites – this one and the Stargate site – and lots of others hosted in the same server. It was an old one, so Gertie decided to replace the server, and we are now hosted in the brand new server.

I’m sorry I couldn’t get here earlier to let you know what was going on – for the first I couldn’t get to either of my sites for about two days. Then during the transfer from the old server to the new server, the old server crashed, so Gertie had to stop in the middle of transfering all the sites and fix it again before she could continue (that’s why it took several days to finish), and I just decided to stay away from the sites to avoid putting strain on the old failing server on my part. So I couldn’t post what was going on here. I posted about the problems on http://www.crystalfires.net which is my main domain and always update-to-date with what’s going.

I have had a look around and looks like we didn’t lose anything and everything seems to be working as it should. Let me know if you notice anything amiss!

All done! Screencaps is open again!

I noticed that the image view counts in the coppermine didn’t change although bandwith is used normally, and looking into it, I discovered that the option to “view the fullsize pic directly” by clicking on the thumbnail which I had turned on, is the culprit. That feature is not recommended to use by the Coppermine dev team for that and other reasons, so I’m disabling it. That does mean that the normal size pictures need to be generated now that they’ll be used, so the screencaps will be closed while I do that.

EDIT to add: And I ran out of disk space while doing it, so I’m stuck until it’s increased. May take a day or two before I can open screencaps.

Now that I don’t have to list links to zips anymore, I’m switching the screencaps back to Coppermine. So excuse my dust for a few hours I’ll let you know when it’s all done!

EDIT: all done and the gallery is open again!

Due to health stuff going on with my Mom, updates may be delayed and sporadic. More details here.

As you can see, I have uploaded a beautiful new theme designed by Night & Day Design. I hope you like it as much as I do!

I also bought a new domain to house the site and changed the name of the site to go with it: the new URL is http://www.xenacentral.net and the new name is Xena Central. Please update your bookmarks and links ASAP! The old URL http://www.warrior-princess.net will still continue to work for a while longer but eventually it will expire and then the only way to get to this site is the URL http://www.xenacentral.net