Hey guys I just got notice from our Host, they will be doing maintenance on servers so there is a small window of time when the site will be off-line:

Date: Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

Time: 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM CST

Expected Impact:

5-10 mins outage

Just wanted to give you the heads up, though I suspect there will be many who don't get this and who will panic and who will blow up my email :) But that's fine.

Pari

Hey guys due to a hacking issue and an exploit virus I had taken the site off-line. I upgraded the script so now you need to go through and check things out and make sure everything is running fine.

Pari

As some of you may know this year I have been hit with a couple of personal devastations due to the weather. We were hit with a tornado back in April and just this past Saturday we got hit by hurricane Irene. Now there are reports that tropical storm Katia will be a full fledge hurricane by late this afternoon and she seems to be on a course for us here on the east coast. I have taken a deep financial blow, and although my insurance will help it seems that that will not be enough to cover all my recent expenses.

So I have come to a position where I have to cut costs. As I sat down at my desk and wrote down all my expenses. I decided that I could cut off my cable and keep my internet, since I watch all my tv shows online anyway. I have turned off my home phone, since I have a cell and never use my home phone line. I was trying my damnedest to avoid the line marks ‘website’, but I pay over $200 for the dedicated service and databases and upgrades, etc and unfortunately right now I just cannot justify paying this luxury cost. I’m so sorry but I really truly cannot.

Due to ‘two’ very generous donations from one, fan/member of the site, the site has been paid for the next two months (thank you so much for that!!). At this point the only way the site will continue to run is by the generosity of you guys. The donation area on the site is linked to a paypal account that is attached to our server account, so that the money is taken from that automatically every month. I have replaced the ‘Chipin’ donation box on the site, and put up a goal amount, in the event that some would like to make future donation. I have estimated that from November to March of next year that will be approx. $1125, so that will be the goal set in Chipin. I am not and I repeat I am ‘not’ asking, begging, nor demanding that anyone makes a donation. If you donate, do so because you want to, and are able to, don’t feel like you have to. So the option to donate will be there if anyone wishes to contribute. Please know that I will be posting an identical message and the same exact Chipin widget on all the websites I have.

So as it stands, if there are no funds in the account to cover the cost as of November, than sometime in November the site will be going offline. But don’t worry all files will be saved (which I do weekly anyway). I do intend to bring the site back if it does go offline, most likely (God willing) sometime in the early New Year, around late February (after tax refund) or early March. So know that this is not a forever thing. I sincerely hope you all understand why I have to do this. I have just been hit so hard by Mother Nature this year and with the economy, such as it is, it is making it difficult for me to bounce back as quickly as I have in the past.

It is my hope that no author removes any of their fics or closes their accounts because I promise that the site will be brought back if it goes offline, I swear it!

yes guys I am aware that there's another issue with the site. It is loading slowly if not at all for me. I am currently in contact with my host. I am demanding to know what the issue is, I'm now pay close to $300 because I was assured that all the add-ons and upgrades would insure that we did have 'any' issue on the site and if we did I wouldn't know because they'd be on it immediately fixing it. I really hate the idea of moving everything to a new host (since I've been with these guys for years) but, that may be the solution.

Pari

Try to ChaCha, it's a fast way to make some extra cash:

I trying to find out what the issue is from my host. Stay tuned.

Hey guys I've been working on making the website mobile friendly. I found this free service that does all the work for you. I would appreciate if you mobile addicts could check it out for me. I've placed a coding in the header of the site that's suppose to 'detect' the mobile devices and automatically convert the webpages. It's not working for me but could you guys visit the site the normal way to see if it works, if not go thru this link:

http://spikeluver.mobify.me/SpuffyRealm

Please post your opinions below of email them to me, thanks guys.

**FYI: When you view the story the ad will pop up you can either visit our sponsors or there's an 'X' box to close it out and read the story.

Ok we're back in business, so post til 'my' heart's content :).

If you find something'missing', the problem and the reason I turned off submission when I realized the problem, was that the domain name had not been switched to our new servers when our files were moved. So when if you posted a story/chapter/review in the last 24 to 48 hours it was posted to the old servers, because that's where we were still technically pointing to/attached to. The domain name has been updated/propagated and is now pointing to the right server, so please repost your stories and reviews if need be.

Is the server still down and anyone else having problems connecting to the site today?

UPDATE!! When I inquired about the service being up today the host responded:

'Hello Parisian,
Hardware provider late in shipping. Server is on the way to our DC, will arrive tomorrow. we're sorry for delay - it will be ready by Thursday as the latest.'

So it will be by Thursday.