swfchan is back online after the longest downtime in several years: 11.5 days!

What happened was I decided to restart the server's connection like I've done many, many times before. But for some reason it got stuck this time and stopped accepting connections. So I contacted support. No response, eventually I got back the emails due to them being impossible to deliver. So I tried other emails. Eventually I managed to track down the company owner through a different company and all I got was "we're working on getting the support mail up again". I explained my problem but there were no further communication and nothing happened, even though most likely all that was needed was a manual force-reboot by them. I can't really remember how long I've been a customer of theirs (six years maybe?) but with all the recent minor connectivity issues this was the final straw.

So after looking around for something suitable we're now online with a different company. I have no idea how stable these guys are but on paper the site should actually be faster than before. I hope their hardware can handle the site's traffic just fine. We'll see how everything works out, for now I'm just very happy to get swfchan back up in time for Christmas! Merry Christmas guys!

(Threads and flashes were archived like normal during the downtime.)

I'm glad that swfchan are back!!!! I wish to you a blessed merry christmas and a wonderful happy new year.

No, but seriously, thanks for everything you do, Ants. The flash community couldn't be where it is today without you.

Warms the heart.

Here's to a new prosperous year on swfchan. Cheers!

Edit: Made it so that it auto-restarts every day now. Happens during the time when swfchan usually has the smallest number of users online. Sucks for those downloading a flash right at that moment but I reason that 30 sec of downtime every day is a small price to pay for non-diminishing speeds.