https://mazda626.net/rss/3-latest-news.xml/Latest 100 Posts on Mazda626.netenMazda Announces Long-Term Vision for Technology Development, ‘Sustainable Zoom-Zoom 2030’ Introduces SKYACTIV-X, world’s first commercial gasoline engine to use compression ignition HIROSHIMA, Japan—Mazda Motor Corporation today announced “Sustainable Zoom-Zoom 2030,” a new long-term vision for technology development that looks ahead to the year 2030. As part of the new technology to achieve this vision, the company disclosed plans to introduce a next-generation engine called SKYACTIV-X in 2019. SKYACTIV-X will be the world’s first commercial gasoline engine to use compression ignition.1 Under the original “Sustainable Zoom-Zoom” vision announced in 2007, the company has striven to offer both driving pleasure and outstanding environmental and safety performance. In light of the rapid changes taking place in the automotive industry, the new vision takes a longer-term perspective and sets out how Mazda will use driving pleasure, the fundamental appeal of the automobile, to help solve issues facing people, the earth and society. The following is an overview of “Sustainable Zoom-Zoom 2030” and the next-generation SKYACTIV-X engine. 1. Sustainable Zoom-Zoom 2030 Mazda believes its mission is to bring about a beautiful earth and to enrich people’s lives as well as society. The company will continue to seek ways to inspire people through the value found in cars. Earth Through conservation initiatives, create a sustainable future in which people and cars coexist with a bountiful, beautiful earth Mazda’s approach ・ Expand measures for carbon dioxide reduction from a “well-to-wheel” perspective, considering emissions over the vehicle’s entire life cycle ・ Aim to reduce corporate average “well-to-wheel” carbon dioxide emissions to 50 percent of 2010 levels by 2030, and achieve a 90-percent reduction by 2050 ・ Achieve this with a policy prioritizing efficiency improvements and measures for cleaner emissions that apply in the real world ・ In line with this policy, continue efforts to perfect the internal combustion engine, which will help power the majority of cars worldwide for many years to come and can therefore make the greatest contribution to reducing carbon dioxide emissions, and combine the results with effective electrification technologies ・ From 2019, start introducing electric vehicles and other electric drive technologies in regions that use a high ratio of clean energy for power generation or restrict certain vehicles to reduce air pollution Society Through cars and a society that provide safety and peace of mind, create a system that enriches people’s lives by offering unrestricted mobility to people everywhere Mazda’s approach ・ Develop more advanced safety technologies under the Mazda Proactive Safety philosophy, working toward the goal of eliminating traffic accidents ・ Further enhance safety fundamentals, such as correct driving position, pedal layout and good visibility, and standardize them across all models ・ Promote further standardization of i-ACTIVSENSE advanced safety features, which help drivers recognize and assess potential hazards; in addition to Japan, where they are already becoming standard, gradually make these technologies standard in other markets starting in 2018 ・ Begin testing of autonomous driving technologies currently being developed in line with Mazda’s human-centered Mazda Co-Pilot Concept2 in 2020, aiming to make the system standard on all models by 2025 ・ Using connectivity technologies, create a new business model that enables car owners to support the needs of people in depopulated areas and those who have difficulty getting around People Enhance customers’ mental well-being with the satisfaction that comes from protecting the earth and contributing to society with a car that offers true driving pleasure Mazda’s approach ž Pursue an enhanced Jinba-ittai driving feel that will unlock people’s potential and revitalize them mentally and physically ž Based on the philosophy of “breathing life into the car,” further develop KODO design to raise vehicle design to the level of art that enriches the emotional lives of all who see it 2. SKYACTIV-X next-generation engine Technological innovations ・ SKYACTIV-X is the world’s first commercial gasoline engine to use compression ignition, in which the fuel-air mixture ignites spontaneously when compressed by the piston ・ A proprietary combustion method called Spark Controlled Compression Ignition overcomes two issues that had impeded commercialization of compression ignition gasoline engines: maximizing the zone in which compression ignition is possible and achieving a seamless transition between compression ignition and spark ignition. Features ・ This new proprietary combustion engine combines the advantages of gasoline and diesel engines to achieve outstanding environmental performance, power and acceleration performance. ・ Compression ignition and a supercharger fitted to improve fuel economy together deliver unprecedented engine response and increase torque 10–30 percent over the current SKYACTIV-G gasoline engine.3 ・ Compression ignition makes possible a super lean burn4 that improves engine efficiency up to 20–30 percent over the current SKYACTIV-G, and from 35–45 percent over Mazda’s 2008 gasoline engine of the same displacement. SKYACTIV-X even equals or exceeds the latest SKYACTIV-D diesel engine in fuel efficiency. ・ With high efficiency across a wide range of rpms and engine loads, the engine allows much more latitude in the selection of gear ratios, providing both superior fuel economy and driving performance. Moving forward Mazda hopes to help create a future in which people, the earth and society can coexist with cars, to enrich people’s lives through a car ownership experience that celebrates driving, and to become a brand with which customers feel a strong emotional connection. # # # 1 As of August 2017. According to in-house investigations. 2 Mazda’s human-centered self-driving technology development concept. People enjoy driving while being revitalized mentally and physically. Meanwhile the car is driving “virtually” with a firm grasp of the movements of the driver and the car. In unexpected situations, such as a sudden loss of consciousness, the car will override the driver, automatically contact emergency services and drive safely to the most appropriate location. 3 Engine is still under development and figures are subject to change. 4 A condition in which the ratio of gasoline to air is reduced to a level that would not ignite in a spark-ignition engine.Tue, 08 Aug 2017 13:15:23 +0000We've now been upgraded to the latest and greatest for forum software. We tried to keep it as similar as possible. The site is "catching" up for the next few days so please hang in their as it rebuilds all of the old posts. Thank you everyone for your patience, going to go get some ZZZzzz's now Many more good changes coming soon! -NDM/JoshFri, 01 Apr 2016 04:22:25 +0000New parts installed from our server build: http://mazda626.net/topic/46378-mazda-server-build-ssds-up-big-image-warning-5mb-each/. Basically added more SSD's for redundency and speed (2-3x speed increase), things should have gotten a bit quicker for everyone. Enjoy! Thanks, -JoshSat, 16 Jan 2016 15:05:16 +0000Sun, 25 Oct 2015 00:16:11 +0000June 26th is upon us once again. We usually celebrate 626 day here as a day dedicated to working on our 626's and sharing our experiences with each other. Here is your 2 week notification that 626 day is coming so that you'll have time to take on larger projects for the purpose of sharing on 626 day. You could do something as simple as routine maintenance like an air filter replacement or as complex as a transmission swap. All levels of maintenance and projects are encouraged for sharing. Some members in Florida are having a meet on June 26th at Orlando Speed World Dragway for test and tune night. Join the MX6 Team Florida facebook group if you're interested in attending this particular event for 626 day. We would like to encourage all members to get together at events, meet locally, work on projects or do routine maintenance. Get your projects geared up, completed, and ready to share for 626 Day 2015!Tue, 09 Jun 2015 03:42:27 +0000Mon, 23 Feb 2015 20:17:53 +0000Fixed 3 letters acronym searching in site search, CLA, HLA, HEI, MAF, VAF, etc you know the list goes on and it all works now. Unfortunately were still stuck with the 1000 result ~20 pages of results limitation, but that will hopefully be fixed here soon. Added Memcache so the site should be a bit more zippy for everyone. Hows your speeds? (New Server is hosted with linode located in Dallas, however data is also being zipped to you from closer Amazon Cloudfront Servers, and Cloudflare) Connection within the US benchmarked out as fantastic (Typically Sub 2 seconds), and I'm seeing 2.48 seconds from Amsterdam, Netherlands. So hopefully you international users will enjoy a better connection as well. HTTPS / SSL Logins is super close to being implemented, having some minor issues with ipboard, but should have it worked out soon.Sun, 04 Jan 2015 20:03:00 +0000Hey Everyone, AAANNNNNDDD were back. site performance okay? New location Dallas, TX on linode, Yeeehawwwwwww Back online moved to a new host! Performance seems pretty good I also tried via a few vpn's (including locations like japan) and performance seemed pretty solid. Still ironing out some minor errors the search being a HUGE pain, but otherwise things look good!Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:57:26 +0000Looks like were having some hardware/server center issues. Should be fixed soon, sorry for the issues everyone!Mon, 15 Dec 2014 21:42:22 +00003rd Annual ETCG Meet-Up EricTheCarGuy is having his annual meetup at his shop in Ohio this Saturday. If you would like to go please RSVP on his forum. Let's get a lot of 626 owners out there! 3970 State Route 42 Mason, OH 45040 Google Map LinkWed, 16 Jul 2014 23:40:09 +0000[img=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v64/Zepticon/IMG_3278.jpg~original]The links i get from Photobucket nowdays look like the above, and i get the message that this image extension is not allowed on the site. After having to edit the n-th image link, im just going to ask if you can allow this? :DSun, 01 Dec 2013 21:22:46 +0000Can we please have DailyMotion url embed regex so that this... http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xylvd9_man-with-strong-brand-loyalty-willing-to-kill-for-mazda_funWill automatically turn into a video embed the same way it does for youtube urls. Please? http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xylvd9_man-with-strong-brand-loyalty-willing-to-kill-for-mazda_funFri, 22 Nov 2013 13:10:10 +0000Hey everyone, well be doing a database upgrade/conversion to UTF-8 very shortly (Scheduled downtime is 11:00 AM EST to 1:00 PM EST). Downtime shouldn't be more than an hour or two at max, thanks for your patience!Sat, 09 Nov 2013 15:28:20 +0000Hey everyone, sorry for the outages, were trying to track down the cause and I have a few people working on it. I'll keep you posted soon with more updates! Thanks, -NDMFri, 18 Oct 2013 19:45:43 +0000Just moved the site to its final home for the the next few years (we hope). I will continue tweaking and updating the site for the next few weeks, if you notice any new issues please post it in the feedback section. Thanks for your patience of the occasional outages this weekend. Enjoy the new server!Mon, 06 May 2013 02:30:19 +0000Server Transfer failed earlier, attempted to migrate and all accounts except mazda626.net migrated properly. So I'm going to redo it manually. I'm just really disappointed in the crappy system I tried to use to migrate the site. I will keep you all posted. Thanks, -JoshSat, 04 May 2013 16:25:51 +0000The Server Migration was just completed. The site may be temporarily slower. But we have to reoptimize/retweak quite a few things, and it should be much quicker than before. Thanks for your patience everyone. Oh Also for all of you Night Owls on the forum: say goodbye to site slowdown after 1:00 AM! Thats now a thing of the past.Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:32:43 +0000Lately I've been really busy with work(startup life) so I've hired a 3rd party to migrate us to our new server. *edit* The migration should be happening sometime today or tomorrow, exact timeframe unknown. Im going to redirect mazda626.net to a tempoary page when the site is offline. Current Server (1X) Quad Core E3-1230 (4 logical cores, 8 hyperthread cores) 16gb Ram 2 X 1 TB harddrives 1GBPS port Rent New Server: (2x) Quad Core L5520 (8 logical cores, 16 hyperthreaded cores) 36gb Ram 2 x 128gb Crucial M4 SSD Hard Drives (Mirrored in raid1) 1 x 1TB Storage disk (for backups) 1GBPS port 12 Month Rent to Own Why Were Upgrading/moving? 1) More Reliable Company/DataCenter: We've had alot of random outages with VolumeDrive, its gotten pretty old/annoying. 2) Better Support: Dacentec has a much better support reputation than volumedrive, 3) Rent-to-Own: means that 12 months from now the server cost will drop to only having to pay a colocation fee, which will be 30-$50 per month (as opposed to roughly $115-135 rental). Example is if I moved a year ago we would have saved at least $800.00 in server costs. 4) Current I/O Issues: The current server is having alot of backup I/O issues causing some horrible site performance at night when the backups are happening. 5) SSD Speed: SSD performance is top notch and should make the site/server even quicker. 6) Minor Cost increase: We are paying exactly the same amount for the new server as the old server. (Minus a extra 20.00 per month for the second SSD) 7) More CPU Powa! More Logical Processors = Better web server performance for multithreaded applications. 8) More Ram: Honestly we didn't really need the ram, we hardly use everything we currently have [mazda626.net normally uses 2-3gb], but since 36gb is such a ridiculous amount it gives us opportunities to experiment and grow the community in unique ways. One proposal by Xenomorph was to run a racing simulation server for Rfactor 2 http://rfactor.net/web/rf2/, but were open to other ideas too! Overall: The benefits are undeniable, and this is a fantastic short term(1 year) investment, because it will save a huge amount in server costs, which means we can invest more into the site and additional projects. Also the speed improvements also should be pretty awesome, I'm hoping for: click = instant pageloadWed, 24 Apr 2013 22:57:07 +0000So with the forum update we got a nice little array of problems Some people still might be missing functionality of the quote button. Also for some reason IMG tags don't work very well right now The site could be randomly hanging, (it has been for me, but i can't track down the cause, nothing appears to be wrong) If you notice any other issues please drop us a topic in the feedback section or here in this post.Wed, 19 Dec 2012 21:28:22 +0000Hey everyone and were back online now, sorry for the downtime. Our server was actually physically relocated to a new server center by our server host, which is why we were down for 24 hours. The server was previously in Florida, and now its located in Pennsylvania, a 984 mile trip ( http://goo.gl/4tmpW ) The server was fully operational at 4:06 PM EST, (5 hours ago) However the site wasn't automatically available for 2 reasons. The mazda626 VPS/site failed to autoboot (something I'll be sure to resolve). I wasn't alerted it was back on because my automatic server checks only check the mazda site not the root server (something I'm also going to fix). I apologize for the 5 hours of unnecessary downtime, and the unfortunate 25 additional hours while the servers were shipped. This has been our longest downtime in the last year, and we hopefully won't see anything of this magnitude for quite a while. Thanks again for your patience everyone!Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:40:35 +0000As part of a new and exiting community project, We have added a 3D Modeling Discussion Area and 3D Model Downloads Database , which are both now live. These sections are for members only, and are only visible by logged in members. This allows us as a community begin 3D Modeling and sharing Models of the 626, giving us the added benefit of being able to reproduce parts for the 626 long after Mazda and 3rd party manufacturers forget about us. It will also give us the ability to create some excellent diagrams and guides with 3d models of parts, engine bays etc. Oh wait you don't have any 3d modeling experience???, No worries! You can contribute with a digital camera and a computer using free photo rendering software like autodesk 123D catch. For a list of other free modeling software check out this post here: http://mazda626.net/...print-software/ Lastly if you have 3D Models you wish to upload simply drop them in the upload section here: http://mazda626.net/...model-database/Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:46:12 +0000No drastic front end changes here, but were going to be doing some changes to fix two major issues that have been persistent for the last 2months - 1 year. Email notifications: Not getting sent, not getting sent on time, not getting sent at all etc. We've had alot of email issues over the last year, and were switching to Mandrill (mailchimps relatively new mail delivery service). Also don't worry just because were switching over to this service doesn't mean your emails will be exposed to those pesky spammers. Issue discussion topic was here: http://mazda626.net/...-notifications/ Just as a sidenote emails might be a little slow for the first 24-48 hours, during this time we have limits until they can verify were not a spammer trying to use MailChimps service. Fresh Content Not Showing Up: Some issues with posts not showing up right away. Due to a new html accelerator we enabled to reduce some of the load on the server logged in members are having some issues with not seeing posts show up right away. So well be fixing this very soon, by disabling this particular accelerator for members, and making it only be used by guests on the site. Issue discussion topic was here: http://mazda626.net/...ts-not-showing/Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:24:52 +0000Just wanted to announce that we were able to get about 1gb of missing content back online. This was all content that was previously on snailmans old servers. We have a lot of good stuff now back live! Example of some missing images restored!: http://mazda626.net/topic/28799-strut-spring-replacement/ I'm still having some issues for images in threads like this: http://mazda626.net/topic/16070-hei-ignition-module-modificationinstallation/ because the images point to port 8080, but I should have those working later this weekend. Enjoy everyone! And a special thanks goes out to snailman of course for safeguarding this content, that we can now use and share again.Sat, 04 Aug 2012 18:50:21 +0000Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:55:28 +0000Well it's official, were running sub 3 second load times world wide. We actually switched over from MaxCDN to Amazon Cloudfront which is why you might have had some minor rendering issues the past few days. MaxCDN was nice, but it doesnt offer enough servers in australia / pacific-rim. So we switched to amazons cloudfront which has about 3 times the number of distribution centers. So the closer you are to one of the following cities the quicker the site should be for you now. I Also Added benchmarked load times of our site from cities I could test from. I benchmarked just a few below: enjoy! United States Ashburn, VA (2) Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (2) | 1.03 Seconds Jacksonville, FL Los Angeles, CA (2) | 2.05 seconds Miami, FL New York, NY (2) | 0.823 Seconds Newark, Palo Alto, CA San Jose, CA Seattle, WA South Bend, IN St. Louis, MO Europe: Amsterdam (2) | 1.5 Seconds Dublin | 2.33 Seconds Frankfurt (2) | 1.5 Seconds London (2) | 2.56 Seconds Milan Paris (2) Asia: Hong Kong | 3.084 Seconds Osaka | 3.18 Seconds Singapore (2) | 3.48 Seconds Sydney | 2.283 Seconds Tokyo | 3.43 Seconds South America: Sao Paulo | 3.62 Seconds I will definitely update with some more later though!Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:51:47 +0000Images should load MUCH FASTER NOW! Were now on MaxCDN a full SSD based content delivery network. Which means the site should be even quicker especially when your loading large images now. **95% Percent of everything you see now (images) are hosted on the cdn** Which frees up our server to be quicker with routing and directing traffic :D Were also running this in addition to cloudflare still: http://mazda626.net/...network-online/ Content Distribution Nodes: For Europe/Pacific Node Locations take a peak here: http://www.maxcdn.co...atures/network/Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:31:05 +0000I just wanted to let everyone know that we did a major overhaul on the Mazda626.net site search feature this morning (not pmx626.com) You can now: Search 3 letter strings! Like MAF, VAF, CAI, HEI, HLA, HID, etc :D Search 2 letter strings! Like ZE, G4, DE, KL, SC, FI, Search all the way back to 2002 :D (Searches were previously limited to last 365 days) Search Hundreds of times in a row without issue. (Flood control is completely disabled for EVERYONE!) Receive 40+ Pages of results Play with it and let us know what you think :DSun, 24 Jun 2012 13:58:37 +0000Hello and Good Day ! My name is Gary, I'm doing some server work for the owners of the website so things may not respond or be sluggish from time to time but please bear with me as there is a big profile change on the server so a lot of things have to be reconfigured. I have done the main bit so you should only see minor sluggish moments where I give services a restart to make the new changes live. Kind regards. Gary.Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:09:53 +0000Sat, 02 Jun 2012 17:04:00 +0000Today for the first time in 3+ years Mazda626.net Got hacked. We Spent the last 6 hours or so recovering the backups, Luckily we only lost 2 days of data. We don't have reason to believe any passwords were stolen/cracked, but we advise that you do change your passwords(I'll send out a site wide email reminding users to do so). Sometimes we just have to make the best out of the worst situations, so in light of this major issue we will be completely overhauling security (i've already started to do so). Temporarily, Uploading images/profile pictures will most likely not work. But we will get this resolved in the next day. The important thing is that the board is back up and running for business. Thanks for your understanding and support everyone, no matter what happens this community will always stay going strong, and we have a very committed volunteer staff to keep the site alive!Wed, 18 Apr 2012 03:42:17 +0000We've made some minor tweaks to the layout of the board, nothing major. All just to make it more intuitive/easy to follow. years are now before engine type in tech section and performance sections. a few lesser used sections have been merged back into their respective parent categories a few sections have been moved to be in more logical locations Enjoy!Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:26:34 +0000Soooo good news is ram on the server got bumped, bad news is after they upgraded the RAM they forgot to turn back on the server . . . So yeah. Sorry about that everyone! I guess we have monkeys running the server centerThu, 02 Feb 2012 23:50:35 +0000So any day and everyday you want post pics and discuss what your noms are! Look at this thread as if its the cooking channel on mazda626.net Also feel free to comment on the noms others are eating. This is what we call in Connecituct a Grinder(aka Sub aka Hogey, etc) I got it straight from a local supermarket made fresh in front of me. Crusty FrenchBread Tukey Lettuce, Tomato, Onions, Green peppers, and some mayo! Whats in your lunchbox?Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:11:46 +0000Had some minor issues between cloudflare and our server, cloudflare is disabled temporarily until we can resolve them. Sorry for the inconvenience everyone.Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:28:28 +0000PMX626.com search of probetalk, mx6.com, performanceprobe.com, and mazda626.net is back up :D UPDATE****** ALL minor issues fully resolved, PMX626.com Working 100% WOOOT!Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:10:30 +0000Hey everyone, just as a little announcement, between optimizing our new server, our CDN, and all that. The front page should load between 1-3 seconds for 90% of you. I'm getting sub 1 second load times :D My last pageload test got 823ms total! Enjoy!Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:45:37 +0000And were back online everyone. Will be tweaking and optimizing over the next few days, so the site will only get much much faster! Enjoy the new speedier server, and dont hesistate to let me know of any issues you see/discover.Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:25:41 +0000Alright everyone, so after 3-4 failed migrations to the new server, for a wide array of reasons. The final move will be tomorrow between 6:00pm and 7:00 PM eastern time (-5GMT). The new server is solid, we fixed all the issues we had, along with 2 fresh reinstalls, bios updates etc etc. Its stable and fast now :D. I'm estimating a 30 minute downtime max during the migration. I'm going to shoot for doing it in 15 or less though, which should be very plausible.Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:19:33 +0000Just as a little update, were now protected from spammers! As many of your know we got spam bombed over the past few days. But now were tying in with projecthoneypot and stopforumspam projects! We've already stopped a significant number of spammers :D. Sorry about all the spam lately, the mods/admins have been doing a great job axing it, this new addon should make their job much easier, and will make the forum a cleaner better placeMon, 16 Jan 2012 19:09:33 +0000I just wanted to take a moment and let you all know we are going to reorganize the forums soon in the next week or so. The new structure is well thought out and we will possibly even post it here before to get any feedback. We appreciate any feedback after it goes live as well.Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:58:07 +0000Sorry about the downtime everyone, the dedi exploded again. Moved the site to rackspace temporarily until we can get the kinks worked out fully. Thanks, and sorry for the troubles.Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:21:12 +0000New Servers live everyone, enjoy the new blazing fast speed. Looks to be stable as a rock. Enjoy the new blazing fast speeds, frontpage load time goes down from about 6 seconds to 2 so everyone at all internet speeds should enjoy a faster mazda626.net! All pageloads after that on broadband connections should be pretty darn close to instant. Enjoy everyone! *edit timezones off by 5 hrs, working on solution!Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:25:00 +0000Just to give everyone some notice. Well be shifting over to the new server tonight around 6:00-8:00 PM EST. At that time the old server / the board will become locked, with a message across the top apologizing for the downtime. As only location(A record) not the nameserver is changing, I'm hoping downtime will be minimal. The actual move itself should take less than 15 minutes in total. If your still stuck on the oldsite be sure to use the following commands in attempt to force your computer to update by using: As for the new server, load times on average should just drop a 1 second per page for everyone, which is pretty significant :). More tuning will take place over the following weeks, but the new server will be much faster! Combined with the current CDN it should fly :)Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:17:45 +0000As many of you may know, we experienced an extended amount of downtime started from 2:32:42AM. It lasted for 10 hours and 38 minutes. The cause was due to our hosting company and billing. It has been fixed now, so we are good. Sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused. We are still testing the new server, but we should move to that sometime next month.Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:11:46 +0000First let me just say I feel like politics and the discussion board should never come together, under one exception, if some political bill/act will effectively potential hurt or harm mazda626.net. Well if you haven't herd the internet was in an uproar yesterday, over This new SOPA bill, which could effectively kill thousands of major sites from google to mazda626.net in one swoop. ANY infringing content could get our ip banned from the internet. Now we sure aren't a piracy website but we have ALOT of images, and its quite possible that some of those are potentially infringing. Now I don't know about you all, but I don't have time to sort through 300k and growing posts to hunt down potentially infringing content. Please help keep Mazda626.net alive and send a email to congress asking that they end this foolishness and kill this bill. It takes about 5 seconds. Be sure to ask your friends, and family to as well, this is not a joke. Check out this video for more info: This site will never be about politics, this is purely for preserving our great community, and excellent library of knowledge.Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:02:12 +0000So in some fantastic news, our CDN is officially online. It will take you anywhere between 24-48 hours to see the change. What is a CDN, see how it works in an infographic Our CDN: Cloudflare.com Our Server Edge Network What it means: A faster website for everyone! How to tell if your seeing the CDN version of the site? If your not on the CDN and your eager to try it out; you can clear your DNS cache by doing the following: Like i said it could take 24-48 hours but for most should be within 12-24 hours. Btw since we went all in we might have a few kinks to work out, so if you have/notice any problems with the site not working, drop a line here and well troubleshoot it!Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:47:54 +0000So I'm sitting here on my lunch break, and I just wanted to shoot you all a great little announcement. As you know we moved servers already once this year, and well be moving again verryyy soon (possibly next week soon). We were originally going to move to "the cloud" but we found an even better deal and we will have our own dedicated server :) . Specs: Intel Xeon E3-1230 Sandy Bridge 3.2 Ghz (8 logical processing cores) 8 GB DDR3 ECC 1333 Memory 2 x 1000 GB SATA Hard Drive (In raid-1 Mirrored configuration) 1 Gbps Unmetered Bandwidth 5 IP Addresses Dedicated IPMI (reboot, KVM and OS reloads) Private network included Its only costing us slightly more than what were paying for our current 1.25gb setup to the dedicated server listed above! Not too shabby eh? We now have even more room for future growth now. FYI current specs (roughly the same price) Virtual Private Server 1.13 Ghz CPU (1 logical processing core) 768 MB DDR3 ECC Ram 30GB Disk Space ??? Network Speed 2 IP Addresses raw processing power were going from 1.13Ghz to a combined 25.6 Ghz And Ram more than 8x the current amount. Chances are we won't be able to use all this power immediately, but we now have the mazda furai of servers!Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:15:17 +0000Sidebar has been fixed early this morning everyone. Right now latest posts is setup to display 20 posts, might drop it to 15, but it is by far the most important sidebar block id say! "status updates" are disabled as they seem to have a serious negative impact on performance. Also facebook sidebar block is fixed :) Enjoy!Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:43:44 +0000I just performed the upgrade for IPB. It should look similar to before with some minor differences such as the reputation system. Unfortunately, the hooks (or side bars) that we had before are not compatible. We are in the process of finding a replacement for the latest discussions. - MikeMon, 05 Sep 2011 15:27:29 +0000Hey everyone, so after some tuning. And intermittent downtime for the past day or two. We should be good to go now. I'm still playing with the caching system, so if you get any 500 internal errors or bad pageloads, please let us know asap, and well see what we can do. We enabled a new caching system, so the site should be speedier than ever! Even faster than tom cruise!Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:54:30 +0000