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Moving to a new server; there may be some podcast/website issues over the next week or so (Updated)

Update, early Saturday morning, January 14: If you are reading this message, then that means that the worst of it is over: the site is up and running on the new server, and all the data was moved over successfully. All that’s left now is tweaking things to get everything working “just right” and tuning [...]

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An Update from the Otaku no Podcast IT Department

You’ve probably noticed that things have been a little rough and tumble around here in terms of the website and podcast. Several times over the past few months we’ve had inexplicable server outages, where the thing would suddenly stop responding for no apparent reason. (Naturally this would usually happen either when I can’t really get [...]


New Year – New Website

In Japan, one of the traditional activities undertaken by families at the start of the New Year is a thorough cleaning of the home.  This is seen as symbolic in the sense that you are sweeping away the junk and detritus of the old year, to start the new year in a fresh and clean [...]

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Otaku no Podcast server is back online after an unknown amount of downtime

If you were having trouble downloading the podcast or accessing the website this weekend, I apologize. For an unknown amount of time this weekend, the Otaku no Podcast website was down due to a server crash. (Not a bad one, no data was lost thankfully) Anyway I’ve restarted things and we’re back online now. Thanks [...]


New Feature: Photo Gallery

The server oompa-loompas here at Otaku no Podcast have been busy. Their latest achievement: a new Photo Gallery section on the website, where I will post pictures from the various anime conventions and events I have attended. I’ve already started uploading some pictures from FanimeCon 2009, and will shortly upload my Anime Expo 2009 pics [...]


New server

As you may (or may not) have noticed, we’ve got a brand new look and feel here.  Our old website left much to be desired, and in particular, it had absolutely NO spam protection whatsoever.  (as is evident by the recent flood of spam postings)  After much thought (interspersed with some head-scratching and nail-biting, as [...]

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