Hello everyone
The site was down very often during the last few days. I am very sorry for that. I thought limiting the conversions to 5 per day would be the best to get rid of the problems. But it looks like as it didn't help a lot. There are too many users so the main server crashs and the website is no more available.
I am going to take the current version down in April and replace it directly with the beta version of the new site. So there will be no separate beta testing phase. I'm sure that the new version will perform much better. So this might be the best solution.
To all premium users:
As I am very sorry for the problems and the inconveniences I extended all accounts for another week.
Sorry again for all inconveniences.
Pascal
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Sunday, March 01, 2009
01.03.09 - Beta phase announcement
Hello everyone
Yes! The new version is almost done. The public beta phase will start on the 1st of April. So everyone is welcome to help me testing the new version.
And attention! The new version is NOT compatible with IE 6. Internet Explorer 6 is completely out-of-date and is not web standards-compliant. So please make sure to update your browser or switch to a way better browser like Firefox.
Regards
Pascal
Yes! The new version is almost done. The public beta phase will start on the 1st of April. So everyone is welcome to help me testing the new version.
And attention! The new version is NOT compatible with IE 6. Internet Explorer 6 is completely out-of-date and is not web standards-compliant. So please make sure to update your browser or switch to a way better browser like Firefox.
Regards
Pascal
Saturday, January 31, 2009
08.02.09 - Some details about the new version
Hello everyone
Just some details about the new version of mediaconverter.org:
- Support for Facebook videos (free)
- Some erotic portals: Youporn, Timtube and Pornhub (premium users)
- Premium users can download adult protected videos on Youtube
- Again 10 free conversions per day (sorry for the inconveniences at the moment)
Some people asked for hulu.com support. This is not possible since I all my servers are located in Germany. The videos on hulu can only be accessed from inside the USA. Sorry!
The new version doesn't just bring new features it also misses some features like support for Office file formats (too much ressources / only a few users).
By the way .. I still accept feature requests for the new version. So feel free to request whatever you're missing in the current version.
Regards
Pascal
Just some details about the new version of mediaconverter.org:
- Support for Facebook videos (free)
- Some erotic portals: Youporn, Timtube and Pornhub (premium users)
- Premium users can download adult protected videos on Youtube
- Again 10 free conversions per day (sorry for the inconveniences at the moment)
Some people asked for hulu.com support. This is not possible since I all my servers are located in Germany. The videos on hulu can only be accessed from inside the USA. Sorry!
The new version doesn't just bring new features it also misses some features like support for Office file formats (too much ressources / only a few users).
By the way .. I still accept feature requests for the new version. So feel free to request whatever you're missing in the current version.
Regards
Pascal
Saturday, January 24, 2009
24.01.09 - Conversion limit set to 5
Hello everyone
To avoid downtime during the peak times I set the daily conversion limit to 5. This will be reset as soon as the new version is online. So you can convert again 10 files per day.
Thank you for your understanding
Regards
Pascal
To avoid downtime during the peak times I set the daily conversion limit to 5. This will be reset as soon as the new version is online. So you can convert again 10 files per day.
Thank you for your understanding
Regards
Pascal
Thursday, January 15, 2009
15.01.09 - Just some news
Hello everyone
As you know from my last post I'm working on a new version of Media Converter. I mentioned that I will release the new version somewhen in February. I think this was too optimistic. There is still too much to do and I don't want to release an unfinished website. So a more realistic release date would be a date in March or April.
I hope you don't mind as the current version can be sometimes really slow during the peak time. Mediaconverter.org now has about 80000 users per day. Maybe too much for this website at the moment.
I'm going to use some new technics to reduce the load time and server load. I hope this will avoid future complications otherwise I'll have to install a load balancer and more servers. Since this isn't very cheap I have to get more premium users. The amount of premiums users is almost always at the same level. I really don't think that it is too expensive. What do I have to do to make more users to sign up? Maybe you can help me out ...
Oh by the way .. please post your requests for new video portals in the new version. I'll do my best to integrate all of them.
Regards
Pascal
As you know from my last post I'm working on a new version of Media Converter. I mentioned that I will release the new version somewhen in February. I think this was too optimistic. There is still too much to do and I don't want to release an unfinished website. So a more realistic release date would be a date in March or April.
I hope you don't mind as the current version can be sometimes really slow during the peak time. Mediaconverter.org now has about 80000 users per day. Maybe too much for this website at the moment.
I'm going to use some new technics to reduce the load time and server load. I hope this will avoid future complications otherwise I'll have to install a load balancer and more servers. Since this isn't very cheap I have to get more premium users. The amount of premiums users is almost always at the same level. I really don't think that it is too expensive. What do I have to do to make more users to sign up? Maybe you can help me out ...
Oh by the way .. please post your requests for new video portals in the new version. I'll do my best to integrate all of them.
Regards
Pascal
Thursday, November 13, 2008
15.12.08 - Announcement
Hello everyone
Now it's more than two months ago since my last news. In the meantime I wasn't inactive of course. I'm working hard on a new release of mediaconverter.org which will beat the other conversion websites by far with its new features.
Here are just some of the changes:
- The website will be available in different languages. Everyone is welcome to help me to translate the website. At the beginning it will be available in English and German.
- You will be able to queue up to 10 files and convert them all at once
- Completely new design. I won't tell you too much so it's still a surprise ;). You may wonder why I created a new design again. It's just that people with a lower display resolution don't have to scroll down the page after every conversion. So you can access the main features faster than before.
- Support for new websites
- Again two new conversion servers for better performance (total of 10 quad core servers with 4gb ram per server)
- There will be a help chat. This will allow you to talk to each other and share your know-how and may help other persons who have problems to convert their files.
- The conversion wizard will be much easier to understand for beginners. I will add some extra help sections and hints or something like that. I recognized that still too many people have problems to convert their files without any problems. It's hard to make technical things easy to understand for everyone. I hope this is the right step to avoid problems. I will also improve the FAQ as I don't have enough time to answer all the emails and support tickets all the time.
- It's also planned to offer an API so other webmasters can access my infrastructure. The API will follow in an upcoming release since it's not my main focus at the moment.
The current state of the project is approximately 50 - 60%. So there's still a lot left to do. I think I can start beta testing at the end of January so a release will follow somewhen in February. This will result in a interrupt of the service since I have to prepare the servers for the new version.
If you have additional ideas for the new version feel free to contact me. Any help to improve the service is welcome!
Kind regards
Pascal
Now it's more than two months ago since my last news. In the meantime I wasn't inactive of course. I'm working hard on a new release of mediaconverter.org which will beat the other conversion websites by far with its new features.
Here are just some of the changes:
- The website will be available in different languages. Everyone is welcome to help me to translate the website. At the beginning it will be available in English and German.
- You will be able to queue up to 10 files and convert them all at once
- Completely new design. I won't tell you too much so it's still a surprise ;). You may wonder why I created a new design again. It's just that people with a lower display resolution don't have to scroll down the page after every conversion. So you can access the main features faster than before.
- Support for new websites
- Again two new conversion servers for better performance (total of 10 quad core servers with 4gb ram per server)
- There will be a help chat. This will allow you to talk to each other and share your know-how and may help other persons who have problems to convert their files.
- The conversion wizard will be much easier to understand for beginners. I will add some extra help sections and hints or something like that. I recognized that still too many people have problems to convert their files without any problems. It's hard to make technical things easy to understand for everyone. I hope this is the right step to avoid problems. I will also improve the FAQ as I don't have enough time to answer all the emails and support tickets all the time.
- It's also planned to offer an API so other webmasters can access my infrastructure. The API will follow in an upcoming release since it's not my main focus at the moment.
The current state of the project is approximately 50 - 60%. So there's still a lot left to do. I think I can start beta testing at the end of January so a release will follow somewhen in February. This will result in a interrupt of the service since I have to prepare the servers for the new version.
If you have additional ideas for the new version feel free to contact me. Any help to improve the service is welcome!
Kind regards
Pascal
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
30.09.08 - Country specific bug fixed
Hello everyone
Youtube redirects all users to their localized version. So for instance it wasn't possible to convert files from il.youtube.com due to the domain check (false positive). This will no longer happen.
Sorry for the inconveniences
Regards
Pascal
Youtube redirects all users to their localized version. So for instance it wasn't possible to convert files from il.youtube.com due to the domain check (false positive). This will no longer happen.
Sorry for the inconveniences
Regards
Pascal
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