website maintenance 8/17

The website is down briefly for updates. Steve is working on it now. Keep you posted.

Rebooting the server one more time, and then the site should be back up and running.

Working on fixing some bugs related to the updates. Thank you for your patience.

We were working on brotli compression and 15% reduction in size and caching of the static resources. To achieve these speed ups we implemented a proxy server that would serve pre-compressed versions of static assets while forwarding requests for dynamic resources to our original webserver. However, due to differences between our production and development environments we were not able to successfully deploy this implementation. While correcting the bugs discovered during todays deploy, PROHASHING is also working to standardize our production and development to prevent errors like this from occurring in the future. We will be trying again to implement these changes in the future once we've had a chance to resolve the bugs, but we do not yet have an estimate of when these upgrades will occur. For now, the website is back up and running.

For anyone using Google Chrome who may be experiencing issues viewing some images on the website since it's been restored, try clearing your cache. This only appears to impact Chrome users.