Don't panic, Furarchiver stays, even though it still is a money sink
As most of you are probably aware, Furarchiver doesn't actually archives anything. The archiver itself is run by someone anonymous. Furarchiver is merely an accessibility tool for that service. I've always made this fact very clear on the "About" page.
This service does occasionally has problems archiving ...
2025-02-23 15:58:58 +0000 UTC View Post
You may not know this, but Furarchiver actually crashes fairly frequently, often multiple times per day. You may not notice this because it immediately restarts, which leads to only one or two seconds of downtime, but it can still interrupt zip file downloads and let other requests hanging.
I don't know what exactly is causing this, and have been silently deleting the e-mails the error re...
2024-05-21 00:10:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Believe it or not, but archiving content from a website where Artists constantly keep providing new content eats up a lot of space.
Having an entire server for just this one website was a bit overkill, so it was pulling double duty and served a few other sites I've been hosting that don't have anyt...
Furarchiver processes about 30 requests every second. That's quite a lot for something that I just operate in my spare time and to for free. It's at the point where it gets increasingly important to optimize things. As a service operator you want to complete requests as fast as possible, and this wasn't always the case in the past. The latest version addressed some of those problems.
The ...
2023-05-15 09:41:56 +0000 UTC View Post
It looks like the backend is working again. I'm sorry for the weeks long interruption of the service.
2023-01-12 10:05:45 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm aware of the backend being unavailable. Just like everyone else I do not know when it's going to come back online. All we can do at this point is wait for it to come back.
A long outage usually means that the service completely fell off the Tor network, and we have to wait for the owner to notice and restart it.
You can still browse and download artists that have already been ar...
2022-12-28 08:43:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I wrote Furarchiver completely from scratch twice now. The current technology behind it is ASP.NET mvc using .net 6. Can't get any newer than that.
The old version was written in PHP. It was very easy to get started and add to it, but with time (and popularity) it started to hit the limit of what ugly hacky code can do. This originally was a small project born out of an idea on 4chan, but...
2022-10-23 10:39:29 +0000 UTC View Post