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Posted by zraith on 07/18/2008 9:40 am

This week our series spotlight has shined on Parallel! If you are unfamiliar with this series be sure to check it out!

Series Summary:
Nekota and Hoshino were always arguing at school, but in reality, Nekota actually has a crush on Hoshino. One day, he finally gets up his courage to tell Hoshino his true feelings, but she rejected him with mixed feelings. Feeling sad, Nekota goes home to find that his dad is remarrying another woman, but the catch is that Nekota has to live alone with the woman's daughter while the two parents goes to Europe. The daughter of the woman, however, is Hoshino... What will happen between the two while they live together?

Posted by Yukimura on 07/14/2008 4:19 pm

UPDATE: Jul 17th 11:30:AM EDT
All servers should now be up and running normally.

UPDATE: Jul 17th 9:00 AM EDT
Sorry I didn't update last night but other matters distracted me.  The upgrades seem to be complete but at the moment dl4 doesn't seem to be taking it well and isn't accepting connections.  We'll try to get the problem resolved as quickly as possible.

UPDATE: Jul 16th 04:35 PM EDT
Servers other than dl3 are still down. Uploads have been put on hold as well since the fileservers have to be up for the last part of the uploading process to happen and duplicates are bound to show up.

UPDATE: Jul 16th 02:50 PM EDT
All servers except dl3 are down as of this posting, presumably so they can get their upgrades.  I'll Update again when they're back online.

UPDATE: Jul 16th 12:00 PM EDT
Uploading has been restored, and the server maintenance continues.  It seems dl1 is having some difficulties since being 'upgraded' it's alive but only responding to a handful of the requests it receives.  We're looking into the problem.

In addition to more upload testing all of the download servers are going to be experiencing random outages for the next 12 hours or so while they are being upgraded.  How long it takes is partially up to the people at the datacenter.

Today (July 15th 2008) starting at 6:00 EDT the uploading page will be disabled so we can test some upgrades.  Uploading will be reenabled within 24 hours at the most, though it will probably take far less time than that.  I'll edit this post when the system is back online.

Posted by zraith on 07/11/2008 8:03 am

I thought I would do a double spotlight as 3 of our staff/admin are either celebrating or have already celebrated their birthday this week.

This week our series spotlight has shined on Skyhigh and Skyhigh Karma! If you are unfamiliar with these series be sure to check them out!

Series Summary:
Life, death, it is all the same.

All souls of those murdered arrive at the Gate of Grudges. Izuko, keeper of the Gate of Grudges presents each soul with three choices: pass through the Gate of Grudges to heaven and be reborn, refuse to admit death and remain as a ghost on earth, or haunt and kill one person and then proceed to hell and eternal suffering. What does each soul choose and why?

Posted by Yukimura on 07/10/2008 2:52 pm

EDIT: The issue has been resolved, all servers are functional again.

The server at dl4.mangatraders.com has been offline for the last few hours.  Standard recovery procedures were not successful so we're not sure what's up and will have to contact the data center (again).  We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to have it resolved as quickly as possible.

Posted by zraith on 07/04/2008 11:25 am

Due to the difficulties that MT experienced during the week with the servers, I thought it would be best to wait until everything is working again before posting Series of the Week. Anyways here's the belated SotW.

This week our series spotlight has shined on Ubel Blatt! If you are unfamiliar with this series be sure to check it out!

Series Summary:
When Wischtech threatened to invade the fiefs of Szaalanden, the Emperor dispatched fourteen youths. Of these, the Seven Heroes halted the invasion to herald a time of prosperity while the four Lances of Betrayal were supposedly defeated.

Two decades later, the Lances of Betrayal have reappeared and formed a bandit militia near the frontier fief Gormbark. A man with the black sword and a scar over his left eye slays an entire troop of that militia. He is identified as a boy, Kóinzell, and becomes as much an object of fear as of hope even as his own past, motivations, and purpose are a mystery to those he meets in his travel.