The installation of 16gb of fresh ram sticks has just been completed.  Thank you for flying Stashbox.

Hey all, this week we’re buying 16GB of ram with which to replace the 4GB currently in our server.  Hopefully this improves server responsiveness for everyone.

I’ll post again before I take the server down for installation.

This server is going down today for maintence and will be offline for a number of hours.

Thank you for your patience and we hope to see you soon.

Update: Some work got done, here is the proof:

Stashbox and its related sites (like Shup.com) will be down for server maintenance sometime this week.  We’re not exactly sure when, so I thought I’d post this to give you a little forewarning.

Woohoo, new storage for all of your beautiful files.  On that note, thanks to all zero of you who donated to Stashbox.  It really helped pay for the new drives and raid card.  Your continued unsupport (and leeching) is a beacon of light in the darkest reaches of the Intenret.

The server hosting Stashbox and Shup was down overnight. It was a nightmarish time in which I dreamt of all forms of ghouls and goblins causing trouble inside the server. Luckily it was just a power outage and now we are back in full glory.

However, our colo (a makeshift collection of shatalysts and cat-5, along with a server or two) is in need of love. The backup power situation there is dire and it is up to those with servers at the colo to fix the problem! So of course I’m pawning it off to all of you.

I haven’t asked for donations before, but we could really use a new UPS (uninterruptable power supply) to help ensure the server stays on even when the powery is out. So, if you’re feeling kind, use the button below to donate. We appreciate it! (Sorry that it uses PayPal, I know it sucks.)

Yes, you read the title correctly. We have finally added to Shup support for Stashbox (and derivative sites’) user accounts, so now all of your lovely shups can go straight to your own special little slice of the Internet.

Stashbox itself also received a small upgrade, in the form of a Forgot Password page. You’ll have to add an email address to your Stashbox account for this to be of use, but it is handy when you forget your password. =)

Additionally, we now also have a Shup Firefox extension which provides some useful functionality, like capturing entire pages or single images and uploading them (with Shup if you have it installed, without if not).

Three good reasons to get both Shup and a Stashbox account if you’re one of that most minimal few who remain without!

Download Shup v0.23 here.

Download the Shup Firefox extension here.

PS - Check out this cool Shup / Word Press integration

Just a quick note tonight to say that I released Shup v0.19 tonight. The main change in this version is the addition of web browser autocropping, which removes browser chrome from four major browsers (Firefox, IE, Opera, Netscape). Aside from that, there are a couple of bug fixes and tweaks that should make Shup run a little bit more nicely.

Download Shup v0.19 here.

I also moved the beta version of Stashbox into the main site, so get to using all those hot new features!

Today I updated shup.com by adding an image gallery of paintings made with Shup. Hopefully this page will stay updated with the latest and greatest Shup art. Feel free to email it to me (dan at this domain).

On both stashbox.org and shup.com I decided to get rid of the AdBrite ads. They were a pretty big eyesore and didn’t make jack for the site, so screw em. Plus, now the banners for our friends will show up all the time =)

Stashbox also saw the addition of a file request Google Maps thing. This page places pins on a map of the earth in locations from which Stashbox file requests originate. So if you download a file, you’ll show up on the map (anonymously, of course). Nothing too fancy but I threw this together in like 20 minutes the other day. Maybe sometime I’ll even get around to making it show the requests “live” instead of just simulating it!

Shup got a decent review! Click here to read it, or go buy the October 2007 issue of COMPUTER POWER USER magazine.

Finally, in server news, we still have yet to do our reinstall so expect that in the coming week or two.

Lately you’ve probably noticed our server has been down a lot; this is due to us a) moving the server to a new host, b) losing our sysadmin, c) struggling to de-cruft all the server configuration stuff, etc.

I think today I have fixed the problem that was causing the server to slowly suffocate, requiring a weekly reboot. But we’re not 100% sure if today’s fix will actually be the fix, so think positive thoughts and soon we’ll have the server in top form.

Thank you for your patience and sorry for the loss of service.

Sorry for the downtime, we had to move the server.  But of course our old host decided to cut us off like three days early, so that was fun.

Anyway, enjoy the new bandwidth and look for Shup 0.15 in the near future!