For the time being, the anime OSTs will be unavailable while we sort out some things. We can’t really say what exactly the problems are, but know that we should be back online in a week.
There’s some good news though. We just upgraded to a large bandwidth pipe, meaning that we can sustain more people downloading at any given time. Before, we had only a throughput of 10 mbits/sec, meaning that we could only transfer at most 1.25 megabytes per second. Because we didn’t throttle the speed of downloads, two people downloading at 500 kilobytes/sec could tie up most of the line, leaving little bandwidth for other people to use. With this fatter pipe, we will be able to serve not only more people, but a few things on the side for our members (game servers, etc.). Besides that, we are are now redundant via seven tier-1 network providers.
On the more technical side of things, we are planning to roll out server software dedicated to file transfer (RiceServ). Right now, downloads are handled through the website, but to anyone aware of the issues, this is highly inefficient. The file transfers will be conducted over FTP (file transfer protocol), which should be more reliable than the current situation. This is mostly a technical change, we’ll admit, and you will probably not notice too much of a difference. However, there will probably be less (or no more) file missing errors as a result.
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