We’re back on track, Thank Goodness!
It seems the folks at my hosting company managed to save this site and their other customer’s sites…Thank Goodness.
We’re currently experiencing some slow pings and packet loss to some of our MySQL servers in one of our server racks. We believe this is due to one of our links being saturated. Our networking team is working on adding more capacity to resolve these issues and hope to have things back to normal soon. We will update this status post when we have any more information regarding this issue.
I managed to test it myself by replying some of the comments left by our readers and there were no errors for now. I appreciate your comments anytime.
Thanks a lot for your patience…
Oops, my server went Kaboom…again!
This is one of this days when you think everything is fine but then, you discover the painful truth…You were wrong. It seems the experts at my hosting company did something that went terribly bad and for the couple of days, everything was just nuts…Updating the blog and commenting on it were a pain in the butt. It was slow that even a Ninja Turtle was faster than this. There are still some problems with this..like 500 server error messages…Here are the details…
Some customers are experiencing problems with their sites not loading properly. This is due to networking issues that have cropped up and our admin team is working hard to correct the problem. We’ll update this post as soon as this is resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused.
Update (2009-11-14 13:30 PST):
Our admin and dev teams are working together to resolve this and have hotfixed our move script so that we can correct the problem. We’ll update this post again when we have more information.
Update (2009-11-14 15:25 PST):
We were able to narrow down the issue (it was specific to customers with a unique IP that was not in the right part of our network to be moved to the new host machine) and have fixed it. We’re finishing up the configs that will get everything running so most of the effected customers are back up but we’ll update this again when those have all completed.
Update (2009-11-14 16:50 PST):
We believe this issue is fully resolved and have fixed the root cause so it will not occur again. We do apologize again for the inconvenience caused as well as the length of time required to fix this issue.
Then, more things came…
We are experiencing packet loss on multiple machine. As a result, this is causing a lag when attempting to access your site. Our admins are currently working towards resolving the issue. Again, we are really sorry for all the recent problems. Your continued patience is greatly appreciated. Please check back for future updates.
UPDATE 2009-11-16 14:50PM PST: The swtich to our core router was oversaturated. Our administration team has added 2GB to the switch. We will continue to monitor the network. Sorry again for any inconvenience this has caused. Please check back for more updates.
UPDATE 2009-11-16 18:00PM PST: We have not noticed any more latency on the network. It appears to be under control. Our administration team will continue to actively monitor the stability of the network. Again, we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this has caused. Thanks for hanging in there with us! However if you are still encountering stability issues, please submit a support request.
I wonder whats next…2012??? My most sincere apologies for any inconvinience that this caused to you, our fellow reader. If you find any more problems with this site, please let me know…Thanks for your visit.
Featured Blog of the Week, Thanks, Anime Blips!
After the nice surprise We receive last weekend, We got another one. Anime Blips featured Cartoon Leap as Blog of the Week. We were interviewed by Robyn Lass, Editor of Anime Blips and gave us some interesting questions about the website. Here is the full article and the interview.
For anime fans there are a handful of news topics they want to read. Shows, of course, but there are also games, figures, movies, and manga. Cartoon Leap offers readers plenty of coverage in all of these areas and then some. Started by Charlie D. as an outlet for his personal passion for the genre and to post his own manga illustrations, the blog has grown into a valuable resource of anime related news and information.
Our featured blog of the week we asked Charlie, a resident of Panama, as well as Shirokiryuu (frequent guest blogger who lives in California) a few questions to get more insight into Cartoon Leap’s history. Check out their answers below and watch for new posts from this blog on our homepage all week.
AnimeBlips: How long have you been blogging?
Charlie: Cartoon Leap has been around for six years and had several transformations. Originally, it was a place for me to show my drawing skills and manga stories. I love to draw manga and have some samples and sketches for several stories I have in mind. Due to problems with the different software I had, at the end, I chose Wordpress and started blogging around March 2008. Since then, my manga stories were archived and I just used the website to blog different stories and news about anime, Japan and otaku stuff. I want to restart my manga and post it on my website, all together with the rest of the stories. It will take time, but I am sure it will work.
Shirokiryuu: About a year, but I’ve only been doing it on and off.
AnimeBlips: How long have you been and anime and manga fan? Have your preferences for shows or books changed?
Charlie: That’s a tough question. I am 37 years old and I am sure two-thirds of my life I have been an anime and manga fan…I had contact with anime in the ’70s with “Astroboy,” “Mazinger Z,” “Candy Candy,” “Minky Momo”… and the list is countless. My preferences had changed from time to time because we usually evolve. From “Magical Girls” to “Mecha,” the spirit of anime is there, unchanged … Great characters and appealing stories.
Shirokiryuu: I’ve been an anime/manga fan since elementary school when everyone was obsessed with “Pokemon.” So that’s about, hmm… eight or nine years? When I was in middle school I loved shonen shows. Now I watch a variety of shows depending on my mood. It really changes a lot!
AnimeBlips: What’s the best experience that’s come out of having your blog?
Charlie: There are many I can recall. One of the best experiences I had was interviewing one of the “Dragon Ball Evolution” movie cast members. It took me by surprise, really! There are many other recent events that I really enjoyed with our readers, like bashing “Haruhi´s Endless Eight” …I shared with the readers the rage, anger and silliness of that moment. It was great!
Another thing I enjoy is people discussing and commenting about the different stories I post. Meeting people and exchanging ideas…That’s what I believe, it is the best experience so far!
Shirokiryuu: Probably getting connected to other anime fans over the Internet.
AnimeBlips: What makes your site unique?
Charlie: I think we should ask our readers that same question because I believe they know better than me what makes Cartoon Leap special. The only thing I could say on behalf of the site is that we update every day with almost five to 10 post per day. I think that’s one of the main reasons why our readers like Cartoon Leap. Most of the stories we cover also deal with Japan. Many can find interesting and odd news about their culture in the website and I think that’s what our readers find appealing.
Shirokiryuu: Toonleap constantly puts out a massive amount of posts on the latest news and shows. It’s crazy. I don’t post that much, but Cartoon Leap is a great source for anime news, and unique news you don’t see posted anywhere else!
AnimeBlips: If you were stranded on a deserted island and could have only one anime or manga series would it be?
Charlie: Wow, that’s a tough question…If I am stranded in an island, I will probably ask for lots of paper, pencils and erasers. I will draw my own manga and I will never get bored…and if I want to share them, I will put them in bottles and throw them to the sea so people can read it.
Now, if you ask me what’s my favorite anime of all time that would be “Suzumiya Haruhi.” I will never get tired of watching it over and over…but, unfortunately, I think the “Endless Eight” saga ruined that feeling.
Shirokiryuu: Probably “Yotsuba&!” because it cheers me up every time. Or I might bring “Kochikame, “because there are so many volumes I can use them to make a bonfire or somethin’.
Source: Anime Blips
We want to thank Robyn Lass and Anime Blips for featuring Cartoon Leap and recognizing the hard work We put on this humble blog. I saw many other sites featured there but never thought this would happen to Us. Thanks to our readers for doing this possible. Take some time and visit Anime Blips for more news and blogs and if you have the mood, vote for Cartoon Leap there… 
BloggersBase Blog of the Month: Cartoon Leap!
Cartoon Leap was featured in BloggersBase Newsletter for September as Featured Blogger of the month. They asked me a couple of questions regarding my activities on BloggerBase and all answers were published in the newsletter.
BloggersBase provides a discovery platform for bloggers, user-generate-content and readers alike. This platform takes the form of an online magazine spanning various topics, each implemented as a multi-authored blog, moderated by algorithm-enhanced crowd wisdom. Our magazine introduces a brand new concept of citizen-journalism, using powerful analytics and unique algorithms.
Anime & Manga
Anime & Manga, located under the Hobbies upcoming category has become one of the most popular upcoming blogs. Even though it is one of the newest blogs and currently has only two bloggers contributing to it, it enjoys a very large readership.Quite a few bloggers are responsible for this meteoric rise of the blog, Toonleap is by far the leader with a staggering amount of 258 posts in just 3 months!!! We have selected him to be BloggersBase user of the month and are proud to present the interview with him:
Q: How do you approach the process of creating a post? Do you do any research, and if so, where? How do you choose your subject?
A: I just do all research by visiting newsfeeds, anime websites, otaku sites in japanese and english and different news websites that deals with Japanese background on anime, manga, and otaku. It takes some hours to do an extensive research and sometimes it takes longer if I have to translate Japanese to English…not an easy task. I choose any news that I find interesting and I am sure our readers likes the subjects We blog…at least most of the time.Q: What is the feature or aspect that you like the most about BloggersBase?
A: I like Bloggers Base because users can update the content via email or thru the control panel they offer. Also, you can edit the posts to suit the reader´s taste. I think the technical support staff at BloggerBase are very friendly and they help users in an speedy way. I still have to discover more of BloggerBase but I like what I see now.Q: What influenced you to start blogging?
A: At first, I created Cartoon Leap with one goal in mind…to promote my drawing skills and personal stories. At first I tried very hard but suddenly I found myself blogging about my favorite hobbies like Anime and Manga, then I deal with Japan news and Otaku. At the end, Cartoon Leap became an Anime Blog instead of a personal blog. I want to show my own, personal projects like my own webcomic or Manga and someday perhaps, do my own anime.Q: What feature do you feel that is missing from BloggersBase?
A: Tough question. Well, I did some mistakes before with some posts when I put them in the wrong category and the only way to change it was to contact customer support for that. There should be more freedom to do such a thing. Bloggers can make mistakes and time is essential to correct those mistakes.
Thanks to Adi Weizman for the interview, BloggersBase for publishing Cartoon Leap in their monthly newsletter and finally, thanks to our readers for doing this possible.
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