ThePonyArchive

6 YEARS! (And the feeling of impending doom.)

It's been 6 years!   More importantly, YouTube is removing all unlisted videos from 2017 and before and they will become inaccessible after July 23rd.  

2021-07-15 00:07:05 +0000 UTC View Post

New Server for Z+

Most folks know, but in case you don't follow the discord Z+ has now racked a new server and is awaiting hookup before going online with new service offerings.

Updates!

We're getting closer to upgrading the Z+ network.  Some cute pics will be posted on our Subscribe Star.

Thanks again, your support is valuable.

Progress!

I've been quite busy lately but we're finally moving forward (and nearing a foreseeable end) with the new server build and deployment for our continued expansion.

There's a lot mor...

Important Annoucement(s)

• This year's Anniversary Stream will be happening Oct 10th 2020 @ 2:30PM EDT. 
• TPA is currently $100 short per month to run at current capacity.  I've updat...
  2020-09-28 00:44:44 +0000 UTC View Post

We're growing!

TPA has grown considerably over the years.  I just want to tell everyone thanks for putting up with myself in building up TPA to this level.
First I'd like to take a moment to thank an anon...

A small update.

Besides me being lazy, there's a few things that'll be changing.

- The website will get an update eventually removing the banner at the top

- I'm moving away from Patreon.

The...

Moving forward.

We've been in this together for quite some time, and I don't plan on stopping anytime soon.

I have had a few people question if we would cease operation, the answer to that at this time is a...

YouTube / COPPA & Updates

With recent events that I have been expecting for a while a lot's changed and our awareness levels has increased quite a bit. 

I want to start off with a brief but important reminder:&nb...

Updates & Anniversary & Goal Changes.

I've updated several things within the archive and am in the process of making some very large changes / quality of life improvements as well as working towards goals that should have been done mon...

Back online.

We're back up!

Small reminder that Spikebot is now live in The Pony Archive's shared discord server:
https://discord.gg/dGtw...

Unexpected downtime.

The datacenter that houses our front-end proxy server(s) is offline at this time.  The archive's backend is fine, and Spikebot's archiving is unaffected.  

As a result of this, all...

Migration + Finally updating the homepage with the correct patrons.

Just letting everyone know to check their messages, sent out a mass message for the updating of patron status on the website itself.

Patron roles are active on the discord now, get yours whil...

New stuff coming soon.

Work has begun on officially deploying the new server with 77TB of storage.  

During this time you may see some blank pages or stuff may be "gone" entirely from the main site as stuff i...

My Little Pony Anniversary

Hello everyone I hope your ponyversary is going well!

The Pony Archive began in 2015 and officially launched in the summer of 2016.  Since then I've been keen on archiving and tryi...

New archive server project!

New Archive Server Project.

Objective:  Purchase a new server for the archive.

Reason:     Our current server has run out of usable space, we have to rely on others an...

Back online! + Updates

The archive has been fully restored with some improvements.
First and foremost: NO DATA LOSS.  The main server is back 100%.

Please note that you will continue to see the "server offline" me...

Pausing this Patreon.

First and foremost, thanks to all those that donate monthly to the archive, it brings in enough to pay for hosting now as well as save up for future upgrades.

I don't believe it'd be fair to le...

Server offline.

I should have posted this earlier, but most people already hang around the discord server so they already know.

The current server had a motherboard failure but the drive integrity appear...

BABScon 2018

Thanks to those that showed up, really had fun doing our panel Fandom Archival and Archeology. 

There will be a video of the panel posted soon once I get home from the convention. 2018-04-01 17:32:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Going forward for 2018

We've currently outgrown the current server by about 7TB.  The current server has a 24TB raw volume that's really only usable to about 18TB.  There's about 3-4TB of content spread across ano...