Remaining sites of AnimeBlogger were migrated at the break of the month, and Ani-nouto was hit with an extended downtime because the administration forgot to set up redirection. That is fixed now, but we cannot upload pictures. Also, check out the funny. The status page says:

if you’d like ftp access, there’s a surcharge so email us at support[at]animeblogger[dot]net

but if anyone tries to send a message, then this happens:

<support@reinforce-networks.com> (expanded from <support@animeblogger.net>):
host ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com[74.125.25.26] said: 550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist.

Service levels at AnimeBlogger declined progressively ever since Ani-nouto was established in 2007, even while Maestro was in charge. First, he made server logs unreadable. For a while, stats packages were supported, but then dropped. In 2010 and 2011 a wave of outages hit as Maestro's health deteriorated, and eventually a succession to the Singapore crew was carried out. Akai and Gootta pretty much let it roll on auto-pilot until the latest crisis, and now migrated to a managed host without ssh access altogether, let alone to server logs. They want money for FTP, but aren't set up to even accept it. Basically nobody cares about anything anymore and it cannot continue.

I am afraid that I have to start new anime blog, if I care enough to blog anime. Not sure yet if I do.

UPDATE: In a sudden coup, Maestro retook over running of AnimeBlogger, and things were fixed up in short order. Of course he's not getting any younger, but neither do I.