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| FurrTrax | |
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| Author(s) | * Owner: DarkXander
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| Website | |
| Status | Online |
| Launch date | May 20, 2013 |
| Genre | Social network |
| Rating(s) |  |
FurrTrax is a social networking and collaboration site to help members of the furry fandom organize, plan events, make friends, find other furries in their local areas, and those with similar interests.
The site is also accessible on smartphones and tablets via its own mobile portal and a dedicated Android app.
Contents
History
For a long time the furry community had been very scattered,[clarify] and attempts by similar projects such as YiFFr,[clarify] while good intentioned, failed due to lack of maintenance, upkeep, etc.
When the strongest of the remaining projects (YiFFr) went down permanently, it became clear another option was necessary and fast. Two weeks after the failure of YiFFr, the very first core program and associated MySQL backend for the FurrTrax project were born. First starting out as a mobile website only, which still exists today. With the second revision of the core program and database schema chatrooms were added, customizable user profile pages were added, and a bunch of minor XSS and MySQL injection flaws were fixed up with the help of several members for security testing efforts.
Three weeks after the failure of YiFFr, the alpha version of the FurrTrax android app was released, which was little more then a browser launcher that opened the Mobile site. At the second month of operations, a more functional app version was released which while still relying on the mobile website, was not a launcher. It was in of itself a separate browser program just for FurrTrax. The app also was given the ability to submit GPS location data to determine the distance between the site's users, and helping members locate nearby potential friends.
- June 11, 2013 - FurrTrax was hit with its first internet based attack originating from Japan, from several IP Ranges.[1] The IP Ranges were soon traced back to Trend Micro's Japanese datacenter. While the exact intent for the attack remains a mystery, they were attempting to access the chat log files stored in a secondary directory which was protected from outside access. This however did not stop them from continuing to try to guess URLs inside the folder for a number of hours until DarkXander was able to find a working telephone number for the Japanese branch of Trend Micro and question them why they were attempting to gain access to a protected section of the FurrTrax server. After a threat of legal action,[citation needed] Trend Micro Japan confirmed their servers were the source of the attack, but claimed no knowledge of why it was happening, and hinted it was probably some sort of malfunction.[citation needed]
- June 20, 2013 - FurrTrax.com was launched with 75% of the working functionality of the mobile app, but missing a main site logo.[2] This made the service usable from both mobile devices and standard computers.
- July 17, 2013 -FurrTrax steadily keeps increasing its user base, caping at 2000 members in a month and a half.[3] By then it became increasingly clear that the systems own popularity may eventually lead to a overload on the server, to combat this, all MySQL transactions were optimized and streamlined and many queries were combined to save CPU cycles. At the same time another round of security testing was carried out,y and many small and medium sized vulnerabilities in the system were corrected.
- August 17, 2013 - Datacenter upgrades were completed for the FurrTrax server,[4] including a massive increase in bandwidth to support higher membership levels, the following is a speedtest.net result taken from the actual FurrTrax server from inside the datacenter.
- September 12, 2013 - FurrTrax had its first unplanned downtime when the emergency system shutdown was tripped due to a cooling system failure.[5] All systems shut down before any heat problems could occur, and all systems came back up about an hour later once the faulty cooling system in the rack was replaced.
- May 20, 2014 - [6]FurrTrax hits 7777 Members in early morning hours.
Hardware
The FurrTrax rig, a Quad Core System with 16GB of RAM, and a 2TB RAID system, was built in its entirety by DarkXander on Linux using PHP, Java, and MySQL. All PHP programming was written from scratch in Linux G-Edit.
FurrTrax does not use or rely on any third party frameworks, CMS systems, or libraries. As all the code was written from scratch, and not publicly released, It provided a added layer of security since no one other then DarkXander knows how the Programming and MySQL systems truly function. The server is hosted in a PhoenixNAP Datacenter in Phoenix, Arizona.
References
- ↑ Trend Micro attempts to access FurrTrax Server. post by DarkXander on FurrTrax. Posted June 11, 2013. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
- ↑ FurrTrax Website Launched post by DarkXander on FurrTrax. Posted June 20, 2013. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
- ↑ 2000 Members post by DarkXander on FurrTrax. Posted July 17, 2013. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
- ↑ SpeedTest Result after Datacenter Upgrades post by DarkXander on FurrTrax. Posted August 17, 2013. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
- ↑ Site Downtime Earlier today post by DarkXander on FurrTrax. Posted September 12, 2013. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
- ↑ FurrTrax hits 7777 Members in early morning hours Screenshot by DarkXander on May 20, 2014.
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