LiveJournal gets new servers!

Popular online journal site, LiveJournal, installed several new servers this week, bringing flagging service up to a new standard of speed and reliability. The service had been swamped with new users and traffic had rendered the old servers unstable. Members raised over $20,000 since September 2000 to purchase the new servers, which arrived at the end of the year. Creator Brad Fitzpatrick has been working nonstop setting the servers up and transferring data, and the whole transfer process resulted in only two minutes of downtime.

What is LiveJournal?
LiveJournal is a volunteer-run site ( www.livejournal.com ) that allows thousands of users to keep journals online.

What makes it special?
• Clients for all the major operating systems that let you post to your journal without opening a web browser.
• Threaded comments to entries. Users can specify who can post (none, all, friends only, only LJ users...) and can ban specific users if neccessary.
• Friend lists that display recent journal entries of people you like.
• Custom styles that allow users to completely control the way their journal looks.
• Embed capabilities allow users to have their journals display in their own sites via javascript, cgi, ssi, php and several other methods.
• Communities, which are 'shared journals' about topics which let a group of like-minded people create a community journal.
• Text Paging via cell phone or pager.
• Moods, Music, and Picture options for each post.

There is always more happening and more features being added to the LiveJournal phenomenon. Its users are among the most loyal on the net. Last fall when the server became overloaded, LiveJournal raised over $20,000 from members to purchase new servers, which have since arrived and been installed, making LiveJournal a better service than ever.