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Hello, today's announcement brings some good news and bad news.
MD@H Client Requirements Being Lowered
Mangadex@Home network has been up and running for a while now and we can happily say it is still reliably serving all our older content on the site. Recently the number of server spec client requests have died down so we will be lowering the requirements to host a client for people who want to help host... well, at home. With the recent demise of ChuuManga we've seen more strain on the network. At times the assignment rate is dropping below 100% which means some users are hitting the servers directly - something we'd ideally like not to happen.
One update to site to take note of is that you can soon™ enable loading of images via port :443 clients only. (Note: Only recommended if you are behind a firewall or some other restriction out side of your control that is stopping images loading from the network on clients using other ports.)
You will find the setting for this under your MD@H options.
Currently the network looks like this:
[ul]201 clients online and serving files.
22 clients online recently, but now offline.
87 clients offline and probably not coming back up.
28 clients that got accepted but user never turned it on.[/ul]The requirements for hosting a client are lowered to the following specs:
40mb/s (5MB/s) upload and download - this is the absolute minimum we are willing to accept. People have asked if we can do it lower and cited hentai@home having a lower speed requirement, the reason we need a higher speed is that our client works differently. With MD@H client you serve an entire chapter at once, not a single file in a gallery. Too low a speed and it leads to super long load times.
40GB of internal storage - testing has shown that USB drives can not handle the speed needed. So please don't use external drives.
You can sign up for a client here: https://mangadex.org/md_at_home/request
Be sure to include a speed test. Also note that the 40mb/s is the amount of bandwidth you want to dedicate to the client - ideally you should have a bit more available if you are going to be using internet at same time, though the client won't always be using the full amount of bandwidth hopefully! Static IP addresses are no longer required and IPs are registered at client start-up... that said, if your IP changes too much then client will be marked as compromised and receive no requests. Clients will probably require some form of port forwarding for the port you choose, or permissions for java before they can display images to users.
Clients are monitored for performance, poorly performing ones will be flagged and marked as paused and receive no requests. If your client receives no requests you can join our Discord and talk to us in the #md-at-home-talk channel.
Holo Officially Retiring
And now for the bad news, in the form of a few words from Holo:
We'd like to thank Holo for his contributions over the past 3 years and wish him well in the future, he will be missed dearly by all of us. Access to the servers and crypto wallets are now in the hands of the devs that oversee the server side of things so that they can continue to be paid for. The site will continue to operate with pretty much no difference.
Webserver Stressed, Upgrades Coming
As you might have noticed, the surge of traffic caused by a certain other site dying is putting a lot of strain on the webserver and the database. New servers are on the way, so please bear with the site during peak times. As always, you can keep up to date by joining our Discord Server or following our official Twitter account.
Six Title Restrictions
Lastly, we have received a legitimate take down notice for these series:
- Act-Age: https://mangadex.org/title/23242/act-age
- Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba: https://mangadex.org/title/18198/kimetsu-no-yaiba
- My Hero Academia: https://mangadex.org/title/12714/boku-no-hero-academia
- One Piece: https://mangadex.org/title/39/one-piece
- One-Punch Man: https://mangadex.org/title/7139/one-punch-man
- The Way of the Househusband: https://mangadex.org/title/23569/gokushufudou-the-way-of-the-house-husband
While we further assess the situation, we'll restrict the titles and have the english chapters marked unavailable (excluding the external M+ links). Only the comments will still be accessible if you toggle on the option to list the unavailable chapters in your site settings. The title pages will also remain accessible for commenting, general information and tracking, but the option to upload chapterswill be disabled will set chapters to unavailable by default. This will take effect on 27th August midnight UTC. Feel free to give us input on what you'd like to see us do.
MD@H Client Requirements Being Lowered
Mangadex@Home network has been up and running for a while now and we can happily say it is still reliably serving all our older content on the site. Recently the number of server spec client requests have died down so we will be lowering the requirements to host a client for people who want to help host... well, at home. With the recent demise of ChuuManga we've seen more strain on the network. At times the assignment rate is dropping below 100% which means some users are hitting the servers directly - something we'd ideally like not to happen.
One update to site to take note of is that you can soon™ enable loading of images via port :443 clients only. (Note: Only recommended if you are behind a firewall or some other restriction out side of your control that is stopping images loading from the network on clients using other ports.)
You will find the setting for this under your MD@H options.
Currently the network looks like this:
[ul]201 clients online and serving files.
22 clients online recently, but now offline.
87 clients offline and probably not coming back up.
28 clients that got accepted but user never turned it on.[/ul]The requirements for hosting a client are lowered to the following specs:
40mb/s (5MB/s) upload and download - this is the absolute minimum we are willing to accept. People have asked if we can do it lower and cited hentai@home having a lower speed requirement, the reason we need a higher speed is that our client works differently. With MD@H client you serve an entire chapter at once, not a single file in a gallery. Too low a speed and it leads to super long load times.
40GB of internal storage - testing has shown that USB drives can not handle the speed needed. So please don't use external drives.
You can sign up for a client here: https://mangadex.org/md_at_home/request
Be sure to include a speed test. Also note that the 40mb/s is the amount of bandwidth you want to dedicate to the client - ideally you should have a bit more available if you are going to be using internet at same time, though the client won't always be using the full amount of bandwidth hopefully! Static IP addresses are no longer required and IPs are registered at client start-up... that said, if your IP changes too much then client will be marked as compromised and receive no requests. Clients will probably require some form of port forwarding for the port you choose, or permissions for java before they can display images to users.
Clients are monitored for performance, poorly performing ones will be flagged and marked as paused and receive no requests. If your client receives no requests you can join our Discord and talk to us in the #md-at-home-talk channel.
Holo Officially Retiring
And now for the bad news, in the form of a few words from Holo:
We'd like to thank Holo for his contributions over the past 3 years and wish him well in the future, he will be missed dearly by all of us. Access to the servers and crypto wallets are now in the hands of the devs that oversee the server side of things so that they can continue to be paid for. The site will continue to operate with pretty much no difference.
Webserver Stressed, Upgrades Coming
As you might have noticed, the surge of traffic caused by a certain other site dying is putting a lot of strain on the webserver and the database. New servers are on the way, so please bear with the site during peak times. As always, you can keep up to date by joining our Discord Server or following our official Twitter account.
Six Title Restrictions
Lastly, we have received a legitimate take down notice for these series:
- Act-Age: https://mangadex.org/title/23242/act-age
- Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba: https://mangadex.org/title/18198/kimetsu-no-yaiba
- My Hero Academia: https://mangadex.org/title/12714/boku-no-hero-academia
- One Piece: https://mangadex.org/title/39/one-piece
- One-Punch Man: https://mangadex.org/title/7139/one-punch-man
- The Way of the Househusband: https://mangadex.org/title/23569/gokushufudou-the-way-of-the-house-husband
While we further assess the situation, we'll restrict the titles and have the english chapters marked unavailable (excluding the external M+ links). Only the comments will still be accessible if you toggle on the option to list the unavailable chapters in your site settings. The title pages will also remain accessible for commenting, general information and tracking, but the option to upload chapters
