Sorry for the inconvenience, but there will be some more downtime on the main server (that hosts a, b, c, d, & g.imagehost.org) as the main drive (on which the OS resides) needs to be replaced. For this reason unfortunately the server will be offline for several hours while backups are made, the drive is replaced, the OS reinstalled & reconfigured.

Uploads and recently uploaded images (which are stored on f.imagehost.org) should be unaffected and continue to work as normal.

Update: the server OS was reinstalled, but it was the wrong version (as the server has loads of RAM, installing a 32-bit OS doesn’t make sense). Unfortunately this is going to delay things some further.

Update 2: Done! While there are still lots of little things (mostly cron jobs) left to set up, the server is hosting files again! Actually once the server came back online (hours ago) I had already hacked up a quick fix to have the other (working) server host the affected files, but this kind of overloaded that server a lot. I figured it was better to have the images load slowly than not at all. But from this moment on speeds should improve as the original server is now taking over the job again.

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