Cheers,

AkaiWolf

Greetings, fellow AnimeBloggers!

As you may have noticed from the past few newsletters, AnimeBlogger has been undergoing some changes. The next change in the works is the introduction of paid hosting services.

The plans will come into effect only on the 31st of August.

Now, you may ask, what do we mean by paid hosting services?

For a start, we will have the following plans available from the 1st of August 2011 onwards. (All prices are in USD)

‘ FTP Access Add-on: $1.00/mth

‘ Ad-free Upgrade: $1.50/mth

‘ HDD Storage (50G) Upgrade: $1.00/mth

‘ Bandwidth (50G) Upgrade: $1.00/mth

‘ Full Service Paid Hosting: $3.50/mth (Full Service Paid Hosting includes all of above add-ons and upgrades)

And if you sign up for a two-year period at once you get a discounted rate of $3.00/mth!

‘ Own Domain Add-on: Registration cost of the domain

For a limited time (until December 2011), if you sign up for any Full Service plan, you can get a 1-year domain (.com/.net/.org) registration for $6.00 only! (Most registrars charge $10.00) You also get free WHOIS protection by DreamHost!

The limitations for each site (before add-ons) will be: 1GB HDD Storage, 3GB Bandwidth Transfer/Month.

We will be contacting our current blog owners within the month about their sites. If you’d like to sign up, contact us at support[at]animeblogger[dot]net or wait for our new sign-up process to be ready.

-AnimeBlogger Team

As some of you may have noticed, we will be having downtime and migration over the week, full post details here

Network Migration: 05-07-11/12:00(AEST) – 09-07-11/19:00(AEST)

Regards,

AnimeBlogger.Net

Also during this period we will be working on a whole new antenna and AnimeBlogger.Net homepage. We’d gladly accept suggestions and ideas in comments, especially in the area of the antenna features that users would love to see.

Edit 1: Working on new status blog for animeblogger… it will be at status.animeblogger.net > stay tuned

-AnimeBlogger.Net

Just a quick update on the schedule and things happening here.

1. Migration for AnimeBlogger sites will commence 23rd April 2011 thru 29th April 2011.

Bloggers may notice downtime due to migration. I will make an attempt to notify the blog owner before their blog’s scheduled downtime.

Only some blogs will be migrated, there will be a slight delay in full migration due to other server downtime/unavailability with our host

2. Other bloggers who are moving into AnimeBlogger

I have received multiple requests for bloggers that are interested to move onto AnimeBlogger hosting, please note that there will be a page up on this website soon regarding that.

3. Change in plans for all bloggers

Following up on the newsletter sent out on the 14th of April, more details will be available here soon.The implementation of current users to new plans will be made during the first week of May at latest, so you have time to consider it.(Again, the plans and add-ons will be posted here within the week)

4. AnimeBlogger Status Blog

You probably may have noticed that the status blog is down, any urgent updates on server status, etc will be put up on twitter on the hashtag #animeblogger, and on facebook in the animeblogger.net group.

5. AnimeBlogger Community Page on FaceBook

We are in the midst of creating the community page, more to come next week.

6. Donations to AnimeBlogger

Please ensure that donations to AnimeBlogger go towards donations[at]animeblogger.net. You might notice the company name listed as Reinforce Networks. They are our hosting company, and this to ensure that donations made will (directly) go towards the payment for our servers.

-The AnimeBlogger Team

I’ve just put up our news and announcements regarding some policy changes and stuff at our status blog, please hop over to read it.

To keep things brief, we’re undergoing some changes around here and you might notice some downtime as we migrate things around.

Do look at the post as it talks about new hosting plans and our new domain policies for bloggers.

Thanks for supporting AnimeBlogger.NET!

From all the staff here at AnimeBlogger, We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

AkaiWolf

We have launched a new blog to keep everyone up to date on what is happening with the network. We have hosted this on it’s own server in a different data center to ensure it’s reachable even if we have issues elsewhere on the network.

Information on network outages, upgrades or migrations will be posted to the new blog as well as information on our network development plans.

That is all for now !

Mellow

• The Antenna, an anime/manga blog aggregator that makes it easy to find posts on whatever series you’re interested in.
• The Forums where you can hang out and chat about your favorite series, what you’ve bought recently and also ask for help with your blog.
• Our IRC Channel is a great place for those that prefer real-time chatting. Be sure to read the channel rules.
• Our Java IRC chat client is great for those who want to chat on IRC but don’t want to fool with setting up a client. It allows you to chat on our IRC channel directly from your web browser.
• Help support AnimeBloggger.net by using our affiliate links when shopping online. This, and your donations, help keep AnimeBlogger.net running, growing and offering new resources for the community!

Those interested in free hosting for their anime/manga oriented blog should read this post by Maestro, AnimeBlogger.net’s owner. It explains how to get hosting with us.