IT'S FINALLY HERE! POMF HAS RETURNED! GO SEE IT!
After months of painstaking rebuild work, great expenditures, paperwork, and nail biting migrations, Pomf has finally returned in all its glory, with all files intact, new features, stability and performance improvements, and better ways to support Pomf. And I got it done 5 days earlier than my return date (although I'm still a little sad I had to move the date back once).
FIRST AND FOREMOST: Go read the project tracker. Everything that was in there was completed, and it is a monstrous list, ranging from killing off VMWare to rebuilding the entire cluster to buying tons of hard drives. The items I'm going to go over here are all in addition to that list.
First, here's the full changelog beyond the project tracker:
- Added Speedkeys.
- Unified bottom bar nav links across all Pomf pages.
- Completely rebuilt security and rate limiting at the edge to prevent AI attacks and also prevent service abuse while guaranteeing good performance for legitimate users.
- Upgraded all boxes to Debian 12 (Pomf) or 13 (Edge nodes)
- Updated DF output (https://pomf.lain.la/df.txt) for new directory structure layout.
- Rewrote Pomf and all auxiliary PHP tools for PHP 8.2.
- Fixed some really old bugs like file name generation sometimes coming out with 6 or 7 characters instead of 8.
- Backups work again for all data, not just the first 70TB or so!
- Added CLI NCMEC upload/reporting so I don't have to do paperwork anymore when assholes upload CSAM.
- Updated FAQs and T&Cs and Privacy policies with references to Iwakura Systems LLC (this is the company I spun up for Lain.la, the policies themselves didn't change).
- Kicked Uptime Robot to the curb, now we're on Uptime Kuma for https://uptime.lain.la
- Quadrupled Pomf system resources to 16 cores / 64GB RAM
Another announcement: No, I am not deleting old files. While it was tempting, it's just not worth the impact to users and to start tracking metrics by file, which is a bit too invasive for my taste. This decision comes at great expense to me considering 16TB HDDs are now $300+, so maybe go buy a speedkey.
It is my hope that Pomf never leaves the internet again. I have done everything in my power to guarantee that (barring catastrophic financial issues, force majeure events, or an unforeseen colossal fuck-up). We've got about 70TB of free space to work with, which should last a while, and I still have the old cluster HDDs which would provide another 120TB of usable storage (I'd just have to go buy another backups server before implementing it). The service is in far better shape than it was before from top to bottom, and all of those pesky technical debts and bad decisions from years ago (Pomf is 6 years old now, isn't that crazy?) have been finally handled. I own the entire chain from the file leaving the storage server to it heading to your computer over the public internet thanks to owning Nulled now which minimizes interruptions from incompetent third parties and maximizes available capacity.
I am sincerely sorry for the wait. My hope is that you agree that it was worth it.
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Lain.la (or do I put Iwakura Systems LLC here now?)