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Breasts of Beyond

Greetings BoBCats, It’s finally time for us to announce a special project, the first of many to come. With our server fund reaching it’s peak already, we thank you kindly, but we would like to also allow our members to put their money towards something greater. Our staff had October in our sights for a long time. Since March, puns have been thrown around about ‘Breasts of Beyond’, eventually having it become a joke between the few of us who knew. That did not stay in the back of our minds though. Months ahead us, we started prepping for October... and what’s October you ask? October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. One in eight women within their lifetime, not including the rare men diagnosed, will be diagnosed with breast cancer. Every two minutes someone in the world is diagnosed with breast cancer, while every thirteen minutes someone dies of it. But there’s hope. Up and coming research is showing positive signs, but the fight has barely begun. Every day women and men are suffering through rigorous chemotherapy that has no guarantee of working. Families break down, children suffer, and the patients mentality begins to break as they spiral into treatment. If only there was a finer cure. But sadly, there is not. Not now at least. With proper funding and a positive outlook, we can change the world. ‘How will we be donating our money then?’ you ask. With your donations to our designated PayPal money pool (seperate from server funds), we will be supporting The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. If you are unfamiliar with this charity, this happens to be the same foundation that Overwatch supported a few months back. After you donate to our PayPal money pool by October 31st, we will be taking any funds and donating it to the BCRF PayPal fundraiser pool. We urge you to donate to support this cause. Even one little penny will benefit towards their health. To these patients, it means the world. After we donate on September 1st, we will post again on this thread with an update and a release of any information gathered along the way. What does this mean to you though? With your donation to the Breast Cancer Reasearch Foundation, you will receive a special pink donator rank, a designated ribbon badge, and DOUBLE the amount of gems you would normally get with a donation. As time goes on, we also may think of more rewards. For now, that is truly all we can offer in support for this very important cause. Nothing is greater than the reward of joy after donating though! Donate here! Our goal is $250 dollars but let’s try and get past that! Thank you guys so much for this opportunity, Orion

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Halloween has begun...

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If you are experiencing downtime, please note this. Usually the site will come back within a minute or two of this happening. We advise you to not reload repeatedly.

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A message from our host considering the outage.

“While I was hoping to save some of this for the official RFO [Reason For Outage] - enough people are getting tremendously upset over this that I'm going to spell out what I can now - keeping in mind that I will provide more details when I can. **What happened?** First and foremost - this failure is not something that we planned on or expected.  A server administrator, the most experienced administrator we have, made a big mistake.  During some routine maintenance where they were supposed to perform a _file system trim_ they mistakenly performed a _block discard_. **What does this mean?** The server administrator essentially told our storage platform to drop all data rather than simply dropping data that had been marked as _deleted_ by our servers. **Why is restoration taking so long?** Initially we believed that only the primary operating system partition of the servers was damaged - so we worked to bring new machines online to connect to our storage to bring accounts back online.  Had our initial belief been correct - we'd have been back online in a few hours at most. As it turns out our local data was corrupted beyond repair - to the point that we could not even mount the file systems to attempt data recovery. Normally we would rely on snapshots in our storage platform - simply mounting a snapshot from prior to the incident and booting servers back up.  It would have taken minutes - if maybe an hour.  We are not sure as of yet, and will need to investigate, but snapshots were disabled.  I wish I could tell you why - and I wish I knew why - but we don't know yet and will have to look into it. We are working to restore cPanel backups from our off-site backup server in Phoenix Arizona.  While you would think the distance and connectivity was the issue - the real issue is the amount of I/O that backup server has available to it.  While it is a robust server with 24 drives - it can only read so much data so fast.  As these are high capacity spinning drives - they have limits on speed. Our disaster recovery server is our **last resort** to restore client data and, as it stands, is the _only_ copy we have remaining of all client data - except that which has already been restored which is back to being stored in triplicate. **What will you do to prevent this in the future?** We have, as we've been working on this and running into issues getting things back online quickly, discussing what changes we need to make to ensure that this both doesn't happen again as well as that we can restore quicker in the future should the need arise.  I will go into more detail about this once we are back online. **We are sorry - we don't want you to be offline any more than you do.** Personally I'm not going to be getting any sleep until every customer affected by this is back online.  I wish I could snap my fingers and have everybody back online or that I could go into the past and make a couple of _minor_ changes that would have prevented this.  I do wish, now that this has happened, that there was a quick and easy solution. I understand you're upset / mad / angry / frustrated.  Believe me - I am sitting here listening to each and every one of you about how upset you are - I know you're upset and I am sorry.  We're human - and we make mistakes.  In this case **thankfully** we do have a last resort disaster recovery that we can pull data from.  There are _many_ providers that, having faced this many failures - a perfect storm so to speak - would have simply lost your data entirely. This is the **first** major outage we've had in over a decade and while this is definitely major - our servers are online and we are actively working as quickly as possible to get all accounts restored and back online.  For clarity - the bottleneck here is not a staffing issue.  We evaluated numerous options to speed up the process and unfortunately short of copying the data off to faster disks - which we did try - there's nothing we can do to speed this up.  The process of copying the data off to faster disks was going to take just as long, if not longer, than the restoration process is taking on it's own. Once everybody is back online - and there are accounts coming online every minute - we will be performing a complete post-mortem on this and will be writing a clear and transparent Reason For Outage [RFO] which we will be making available to all clients. I hope that you understand that while this restoration process is ongoing there really isn't much to report beyond, "Accounts are still being restored as quickly as possible."  I wish there was some interesting update I could provide you like, "Suddenly things have sped up 100x!" but that's not the case. I am personally doing my best to reach out to clients that have opened tickets are updated as to when their accounts are in the active restoration queue.  While we do have thousands of accounts to restore - our disaster recovery system actually transfers data substantially faster with fewer simultaneous transfers.  While it sounds counter-intuitive - we're actively watching the restoration processes and balancing the number of accounts being restored at once against the performance of the disaster recovery system to get as many people back online as quickly as possible. Most sites are coming back online after restoration without issues, however, if once your account is restored you are still having issues - we are here to help.  While we are quite overwhelmed by tickets like, "WHY IS THIS NOT UP YET!?!?!"  "WHY ARE YOU DOWN SO LONG!?!??!!"  "FIX THIS NOWWWW!" - we are still trying to wade through all of that to help those that have come back online and are having issues - as few and far between as it has been. If you have any questions - we will definitely answer them - but please understand that while we're restoring accounts we're really trying to focus on the restoration of services as well as resolving issues for those that are already resolved. Again - I am sorry for the trouble this is causing you - we definitely don't want you offline any more than you do and will have all services restored as quickly as we can.” You may also keep up with their twitter. Again we are sorry about this and if this continues, we may need to look into other options.

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Experiencing server problems currently. Sorry for the wait! Talking back and forth with our host.

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In a total of FOUR DAYS, we have managed to raise $95 for our server fund. Thank you to each and every one of you who donated. We couldn’t be doing this without you.

Donate!

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Former admin Spacexual is killing it lately with their art.

speedpaint

a little experimental thing i whipped up in a few hours last night - definitely not perfect but i’m happy with it :>

commission info

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Our finest and meme-y mascot is the famed ‘OWO’. He was created by a user back on the first few days of the website when we had the majestic default theme applied. Consider this character... an odd fellow.

ask owo anything!!

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Server maintenance provided by the host is occurring right now. We apologize for the downtime! If we would of known, we would of provided this warning beforehand.

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Maintenance went wonderful today. We’d like to thank you for being patient and sticking with us throughout it, as it did take awhile. Overall, most major bugs got fixed. We will be working on the others throughout the week!

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🚨This is a Red Alert for net neutrality 🚨

Last December, the FCC voted to to kill net neutrality. If we do not take action, this will kill the free and open internet as we know it. The internet needs you—all of you—to make sure your voices are heard NOW.

We need all hands on deck for this one. It may be our last chance. If you’re feeling under-informed and overwhelmed about why net neutrality is so incredibly important, we have this handy guide just for you.

Here’s what you can do to save the internet:

In mid-May, the Senate will vote on a resolution to overrule the FCC using the Congressional Review Act (CRA). We only need one more vote in the Senate to win. Write or call your Senators or Representatives. You can also text BATTLE to 384-387 to get more information on how to write to your reps. You can do this, Tumblr.

Join us and dozens of your other favorite companies like Etsy, Vimeo, Reddit, and GitHub to raise awareness with the Red Alert campaign being run by Battle for the Net. Just add this small widget to your Tumblr to let your followers know how they can contact their reps. It’s as easy as copying and pasting the small line of code right into the customize theme page on the web.

This is important. This matters. It’s up to you to help. 

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Email verification has been added to prevent spam bots. If you have any problems, feel free to ask a staff member.

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Aesthetic Elementals

Due to popular request, we have added aesthetic elementals into the shop for 5k gems. You may use these powers as you please as long as they are under 25% of your character’s body, cause no harm. and provide only aesthetic purposes. If this is well received, we may add more aesthetic powers within the future.

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Please remember that we are still hosting our logo contest. We'd love to have your art on site! Here are some ideas to get you started: - BoBCats(puns). - Chimera - Beast - Claw marks, teeth bites, aggressive poses - Mythical / medieval creatures - Royal Banners / Game of Thrones esque - Weapons - Beastly / Mutated Beings - Magic - Weaponry

https://beastsofbeyond.com/index.php?topic=730.0

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Welcome!

This is our newest Tumblr account for the site known as Beasts of Beyond. We specialize in human and animal roleplay, with our human roleplay officially starting today! Take a peek if you’re interested.

Here we will reblog your art, post small announcements, and keep you updated on what is happening within the current roleplay world. We also have a Twitter and DeviantArt as of right now.