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Ideally, the back-end (like a car engine) of a web site would be cleaned up every two weeks, but I was such a coward that I huddled in a small dark corner and pretended there wasn’t a need for it.

It’s three months since the site went live, so it’s clearly time to put a boot up my rear and get on with it. I keep telling myself that it’s kinda like how it is with dentists. “Even you’d rather yank your teeth out and toss yourself off the nearest zillion-floor tower, you still have to go. It’s for your own good.” (This doesn’t quite make sense, but let’s pretend it does.)

Today PresenceDear.com will be down for maintenance between 2:00PM (EDT) and 4:00PM (EDT)… well, 4-ish PM.

There will probably a hic-cup or two after it’s done. Hopefully, not a major hic-cup, but if there is, it’ll be sorted as swiftly as a dog after a car.

If you experience a problem, please let me know by leaving a comment here. Let’s cross our fingers and toes that it’ll go smoothly. If not, bear it with me until then. Thank you! ^_^

—EDIT TO ADD—

Completed! Thank you for your patience.

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Update on the direct download issue…

Your efforts to keep the site online have really helped. After the appeal was made, 80% of direct download links outside this site disappeared and many of you made the effort to download from badongo instead of using direct links. All this has helped to keep the site online. We really, really appreciate your help. Thank you. ^_^

We appreciate that quite a few enjoyed PresenceDear scanlations enough to recommend many titles from this site at other places.

However, some are using PresenceDear’s direct downloads as links outside this site. Direct downloads at this site are specifically for users of this site.

These direct downloads aren’t meant to be used as links outside this site because whenever it happens, it causes a massive surge in bandwidth consumption, which PresenceDear cannot afford.

We have tried to break these direct links to cut down the massive bandwidth consumption, but there are just too many.

If you - or know a site that - are using one of our direct downloads as a link elsewhere, please help us out by replacing it with a download link to public storage sites, such as Mediafire, Badongo, Megaupload or such.

Meanwhile, if you can for this week, use the badongo link to download whatever you want from this site. We would really appreciate that. ^_^

On a slightly different note…

There might be a chance that this site will go off-line for a day or two this week, due to the exceeded bandwidth limit issue. When this does happen, please be assured that it’ll be back online as soon as the monthly rota is renewed.

If the site should go off-line, Badongo links will be available at our PresenceDear Live Journal.

My apologies for this temporary inconvenience.