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{{Infobox website
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| title = Inkbunny
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| image = [[File:InkBunny logo.png|250px]]
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| author = '''Owner/Lead admin:''' [[GreenReaper]]<ref>''[https://inkbunny.net/j/109707 Site ownership change]'' - [[Starling]], Inkbunny (19 November 2013)</ref>
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* '''Founder/Lead developer''': [[Starling]]
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* '''Developers''': [[GreenReaper]], [[Salmy]]
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* '''Moderators''': [[Kadm]], [[Kantra]], [[Salmy Cheetah|Salmy]] and [[Yoshiba]]<ref>[https://inkbunny.net/adminsmods_process.php "Admins and Mods" - Inkbunny]</ref>
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* '''Emergency administrator''': [[Keito]]
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| url = https://inkbunny.net/
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| status = Active
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| began = 9 March 2010 – 12 June 2010 (closed&nbsp;beta length)
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| ended =
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| genre = Furry art community
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| rating = {{Rating-g-button|center}}{{Rating-nc17-button|right}}
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}}[[File:InkbunnyBA.png|right|thumb|250px|Inkbunny mascot, drawn by [[BA]]]]
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'''Inkbunny''' is a community [[furry art|art site]] catering to adult [[furry fandom|furry fans]]. It went live on June 12, 2010<ref>''[https://inkbunny.net/j/186 Inkbunny Beta goes LIVE]'' - Inkbunny (12 June 2010)</ref> after a three month [[Wikipedia:Software release life cycle#Beta|beta]],<ref>''[https://inkbunny.net/j/406 2,000+ new members in 24hrs, Site Speed, Rules]'' - Inkbunny (14 June 2014)</ref> and won Best Website at the 2017 [[Ursa Major Awards]].<ref>''[https://www.flayrah.com/7316/2017-ursa-major-award-winners-announced-furdu-2018 2017 Ursa Major Award winners announced at FurDU 2018]'' - [[dronon]], [[Flayrah]] (5 May 2018)</ref>
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Inkbunny has over 715,000 registered members (~31,000 visit in any given day), 1,919,000 submissions and 234,000 journals as of December 2021.<ref name=IBStats>[https://inkbunny.net/stats.php "Statistics" - Inkbunny]</ref> The site [[mascot]] is a pink [[rabbit]].<ref>[https://inkbunny.net/Inkbunny Inkbunny user profile]</ref>
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==Philosophy and content==
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Inkbunny exists to help artists share and sell their work.<ref name="Philosophy">[https://inkbunny.net/philosophy.php "The Inkbunny Philosophy" - Inkbunny]</ref> The site once took a commission on the sale and distribution of high-resolution digital downloads and [[print|prints]], but now donations and merchandise are its sole sources of income;<ref>[https://inkbunny.net/donations.php "Donations" - Inkbunny]</ref> no fees are charged to join, display work, engage in business or accept donations on the site.
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Inkbunny welcomes furries with various interests, fetishes, and 'philias. To facilitate positive interactions, members can moderate their submissions and journals, ban disruptive users from commenting and contacting them, and block work by keyword, rating or artist.<ref name="Philosophy" /> This is the origin of the site software's name, Harmony.
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While Inkbunny only admits adult members, half of all hosted work is general-rated.<ref name=IBStats /> To avoid legal issues, [[human]]s and "essentially human" [[nekomimi|neko]] characters may not be depicted nude or in sexual situations.<ref name=ACP>[https://wiki.inkbunny.net/wiki/ACP Acceptable Content Policy] - Inkbunny Wiki</ref> Derivative works are prohibited without explicit permission and material changes, and photography is limited to backgrounds and the display of artwork (including limited [[fursuit]] photos).<ref name=ACP />
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Several of Inkbunny's founding staff and testers were involved with ''[[Softpaw Magazine|Softpaw]]'', a [[cub]] porn magazine; the proportion of such content spiked after FA banned it and recommended Inkbunny as an alternative host,<ref>''[https://www.flayrah.com/3346/fur-affinity-loses-alertpay-account-bans-cub-porn Fur Affinity loses AlertPay account, bans cub porn]'' - [[GreenReaper]], [[Flayrah]] (24 November 2010)</ref> but as of May 2014 only 9% of the site's submissions were tagged "cub", including general-audience works.
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==Features==
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{{see also|Comparison of furry art sites}}
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Inkbunny introduced features which were previously unavailable on most competing furry art archives, including:
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* '''Keyword- and artist-based submission blocking''', including blocks based on a combination of rating and keyword (e.g. sexually-adult [[My Little Pony]] work)
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* '''Multi-file submissions''', intended for multi-page comics, but also used for alternate versions, sketches accompanying a finished work, and sketch-dumps
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* '''Pools''', ordered sets of submissions related by theme or work; like folders, but one submission can be in many pools
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* '''Keyword suggestions''' from users, with the goal of improving the site's search and blocking features
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* '''Always-on [[Wikipedia:HTTP Secure|HTTPS]]''' to avoid wireless traffic sniffing at conventions, and '''IP Ranges''' to control account access<ref name="FullyEncrypted">[https://inkbunny.net/j/4072 Fully encrypted, all the time] - Inkbunny (29 December 2010)</ref>
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* '''Bulk upload''' via [[Wikipedia:Zip (file format)|ZIP files]], to both multiple submissions and individual multi-file submissions
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* '''Stream announcements''', separate from artistic submissions and journals, and '''[[character sheet]]s''' as a subset of submissions
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* '''High-definition images displayed on-page''',<ref name="Release76">''[https://inkbunny.net/j/219043 Release 76 - Huge thumbs, 4K/QHD upgrades, gallery timeline & improved image processing]'' - Inkbunny (25 February 2016)</ref> with support for file sizes '''up to 100MB<ref>[https://twitter.com/inkbunny/status/1314559889092599808 "36MB is kinda small for video uploads. How about 100MB?"] - Inkbunny, Twitter (9 October 2020)</ref> and 144 MegaPixels/16K UHD''' (e.g. 12000x12000, 18000x8000)<ref>[https://inkbunny.net/filesedit.php?wizardmode=yes Inkbunny submission page] (login required). Retrieved 8 February 2018.</ref>
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* '''Preloaded images''' and '''pre-rendered pages''', speeding up access to adjacent content<ref name="Release74">''[https://inkbunny.net/j/206073 Release 74 - Notification filters, user rename, shout/PM controls, prefetch, PNG icons & more!]'' - Inkbunny (21 November 2015)</ref>
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* A '''self-managed [[Wikipedia:Content delivery network|content delivery network]]''', targeted via [[Wikipedia:Geolocation|geolocation]], with per-user control over the server used<ref name="CacheNetwork" />
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* '''Per-watch and account-wide notification filters''', to customize receipt of notices on topics such as submissions, journals, streams, +favs, and watches<ref name="Release74" />
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* '''Account renaming''', including modification of all mentions using site syntax, and continued handling of previous names<ref name="Release74" />
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* '''Encrypted private message and support tickets''', limiting potential loss in the event of a security vulnerability<ref name="FullyEncrypted"/><ref name="Release77">''[https://inkbunny.net/j/245672 Release 77 - Mo' mentions, mo' mobile… and more secure]'' - Inkbunny (10 September 2016)</ref>
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* '''Mention notifications''', letting members know when they have been referenced by others<ref name="Release77"/>
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* '''[[Wikipedia:Application programming interface|API]] support''' for developers, easing automated access to most read-only functions and submission posting<ref>[https://wiki.inkbunny.net/wiki/API API] - Inkbunny Wiki</ref>
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* '''Streaming off-site and off-server [[Wikipedia:Replication (computing)#Database replication|database replication]]''', to avoid data loss in the event of a disaster<ref name="Replication" />
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==Hardware==
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Inkbunny leases its servers, and has combined them with [[Wikipedia:Virtual private server|VPS]] [[Wikipedia:Web cache|caches]] to create a private CDN for public content,<ref name="CacheNetwork">''[https://inkbunny.net/j/180922 Cache network engaged - Bad Dragon sponsors U.S. cache node]'' - Inkbunny (9 May 2015)</ref><ref name="NewCaches">''[https://inkbunny.net/j/189014 Cache network extended to East Coast, Japan and Brazil]'' - Inkbunny (9 July 2015)</ref><ref>''[https://inkbunny.net/j/180792 Two caches, both alike in symmetry…]'' - GreenReaper, Inkbunny (9 May 2015)</ref> delivering ~25TB to users in December 2017.<ref>[https://twitter.com/WikiNorn/status/950162794279784448 "December got pretty intense: @Inkbunny soaked up ~37.5TB of outbound transfer; ~25TB to users, the rest for inter-cache transfers, backups, and DB replication. We used ~66% of our 53TB max capacity, excluding @bad_dragon's unmetered cache. One U.S. server hit 94% usage!"] - GreenReaper, Twitter (8 January 2018)</ref>
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Inkbunny raised $10,400 in a December 2014 donation drive, securing three years of funding for its Netherlands servers.<ref name="2014DonationDrive">''[https://inkbunny.net/j/164831 Putting your donations to work]'' - Inkbunny (4 January 2015)</ref><ref name="2014DonationDriveQA">''[https://inkbunny.net/j/160243 Inkbunny 2014 Donation Drive Q&A]'' - Inkbunny (2 December 2014)''</ref> A one-week drive in March 2020 raised over $5000 from 72 donors.<ref>[https://twitter.com/Inkbunny/status/1235800030893793280 "Many, many thanks to the 72 donors who collectively contributed over $5000 to our coffers over the last week."] - Inkbunny, Twitter (6 March 2020)</ref>
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Inkbunny's servers are named after the [[Wikipedia:Seven deadly sins|seven deadly sins]] (including historical and linguistic variants):
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="clear:both;text-size-adjust:none" border="1"
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|-
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! scope="col" | Name
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! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Purpose / Area
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! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Hardware
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! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Network
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! scope="col" | Location
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! scope="col" data-sort-type="isoDate" | Launched
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! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes
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| ''avarice'' || [[Wikipedia:Web server|Web server]] / [[Wikipedia:Database|Database]] || [//www.servethehome.com/supermicro-x10sdv-4c-tln2f-review-xeon-d-1520/ Supermicro X10SDV-4C-TLN2F]; quad-core [//ark.intel.com/products/91202 Xeon D-1521] 2.4-2.7Ghz; 16GB [[Wikipedia:DDR4 SDRAM|DDR4]]-2133 [[Wikipedia:ECC memory|ECC]] RAM; 12TB [[Wikipedia:Standard RAID levels#RAID 5|RAID 5]] (4 x 4TB HDD); 500MB [//www.westerndigital.com/products/data-center-drives/cl-sn720-ssd NVMe] || Unmetered 500Mbps<ref name="avarice2020">[https://twitter.com/Inkbunny/status/1230583491739504640 "As for the server itself, the board's a bit smaller than before, but perfectly formed. Size doesn't matter, right?]</ref> || [[Wikipedia:Gravelines|Gravelines]], [[Wikipedia:France|France]]
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|data-sort-value="2020-03-01" | March 2020 || Processes submissions; serves pages and private files; source for caches. 500MB [[Wikipedia:Network File System|NFS]] backup.
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| ''phagos'' || [[Wikipedia:Europe, the Middle East and Africa|EMEA]] & [[Wikipedia:Commonwealth of Independent States|CIS]] / [[Wikipedia:Staging server|Staging]] / [[Wikipedia:Backup|Backups]]<ref name="2014DonationDrive" /> / [[Wikipedia:Replication (computing)#Database replication|DB replication]]<ref name="Replication">''[https://inkbunny.net/j/218503 Streaming database replication to Inkbunny's secondary server]'' - GreenReaper, Inkbunny (21 February 2016)</ref> || [//support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c02552365 HP DL180 Gen6]; 2 x quad-core [//ark.intel.com/products/47925 Xeon E5620] 2.4-2.66Ghz; 64GB [[Wikipedia:DDR3 SDRAM|DDR3]]-1333 ECC RAM; 500GB [[Wikipedia:Standard RAID levels#RAID 10|RAID 10]], 14.5TB RAID 5 (6 x 3TB HDD)<ref name=PhagosNovember2019>[https://twitter.com/Inkbunny/status/1193263513491390464 "In October, all three of our dedicated servers hit their transfer limits… so it's a great time for an upgrade! We scoured the web for deals, securing a new Netherlands Cache with 3x transfer (30TB), 2.5x storage (15TB) and 2x RAM (64GB) - for just 70% of what we paid in 2018. The new server will launch in December and brings our dedicated transfer capacity to 55TB, plus 40TB provided by VPS caches around the world - hopefully enough to sate the 20 million monthly pageviews we've been getting."] - Inkbunny, Twitter (November 9, 2019)</ref> || 30TB/month at 1Gbps || [[Wikipedia:Haarlem|Haarlem]], [[Wikipedia:Netherlands|Netherlands]]
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|data-sort-value="2019-12-01" | December 2019 || Serves public files; hosts Inkbunny wiki. 12x LFF. [[Wikipedia:Disk array controller|Hardware RAID]] with 512MB [[Wikipedia:Battery backup#Computers|BBU]] cache.
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| ''fornicatio'' || [[Wikipedia:Americas|Americas]] / Large files / Second-level cache<ref name="Virginia2016">''[https://inkbunny.net/j/259493 Americas served 'til 2019 by dedicated cache]'' - Inkbunny (25 December 2016)</ref> || [http://www.alphr.com/hp/31349/hp-proliant-dl120-g6-review HP DL120 G6]; dual-core [//ark.intel.com/products/43230 Pentium G6950] 2.8GHz; 16GB DDR3-1333 ECC RAM; 3TB RAID 5 (4 x 1TB HDD) || 15TB/month<ref>[https://twitter.com/Inkbunny/status/1069654061757161473 "Also, having seen an increase in demand, we're in discussion with our hosts to raise transfer on our main cache in Virginia to 15TB/month."] - Inkbunny, Twitter (3 December 2018)</ref> at 1Gbps<ref>[https://twitter.com/Inkbunny/status/1217878739595464707 "In December 2018, we upgraded our main Virginia cache to 15TB/month. For that much traffic, 100Mbps doesn't really cut it - especially serving those on fibre. How does 1Gbps sound?"] - Inkbunny, Twitter (January 16, 2020)</ref>|| [[Wikipedia:Manassas, Virginia|Manassas]], [[Wikipedia:Virginia|Virginia]], [[Wikipedia:United States of America|USA]]
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|data-sort-value="2016-12-01" | December 2016 || Primary upstream for caches in the Americas. Serves large files to users of smaller caches.
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| ''nimis'' || [[Wikipedia:Eastern Canada|Eastern Canada]] & [[Wikipedia:East North Central States|East North Central]]/[[Wikipedia:Northeastern United States|Northeast USA]] || Supermicro X10SDV-4C-TLN2F; quad-core Xeon D-1521 2.4-2.7Ghz; 32GB DDR4-2133 ECC RAM; 500GB [[Wikipedia:Standard RAID levels#RAID 10|RAID 10]], 5TB RAID 5 (4 x 2TB HDD)<ref name="Christmas2021">[https://twitter.com/Inkbunny/status/1472919891363737600 "Christmas has come early in the Americas! Our dedicated Quebec cache has been upgraded to 4x2TB disks and DDR4 RAM, while in São Paulo we've added a quad-core ARM64 VM with 24GB RAM and 100GB SSD to our setup to speed up delivery of larger files across South America."] - Inkbunny, Twitter (20 December 2021)</ref> || Unmetered 250Mbps || [[Wikipedia:Beauharnois, Quebec|Beauharnois]], [[Wikipedia:Quebec|Quebec]], [[Wikipedia:Canada|Canada]]
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| data-sort-value="2017-02-01" | December 2020 || Replaced prior caches from February 2017 and November 2020.
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| ''luxuria'' || [[Wikipedia:Western United States|Western USA]] & Northwestern Mexico<ref name="CacheNetwork" /> || Dual-core [//ark.intel.com/products/75277 Xeon E5-2680 v2] 2.8-3.6GHz; 4GB RAM; 50GB SSD (thumbnails & page-size files); 50GB HDD (originals) || Unmetered 1Gbps || [[Wikipedia:Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]], [[Wikipedia:Arizona|Arizona]], USA
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|data-sort-value="2015-05-01" | May 2015 || Sponsored by [[Bad Dragon]]. Caches ~50,000 original-sized files.<ref>[https://inkbunny.net/j/181034#commentid_1055957 Comment to ''IB Downloader''] - GreenReaper, Inkbunny (10 May 2015)</ref>
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| ''saegyog'' || [[Wikipedia:California|California]], [[Wikipedia:Reno, Nevada|Reno]] & southern [[Wikipedia:Oregon|Oregon]]<ref name="LAandOrlando">[https://twitter.com/Inkbunny/status/1275437438756741120 After seeing yet another traffic increase, we've deployed a cache in Orlando, Florida (1GB RAM, 40GB SSD+50GB HDD, 3TB/mo.) and upped California to 15+125GB, 5TB/mo."] - Inkbunny, Twitter (23 June 2020)</ref><ref name="AMDCores">[https://twitter.com/Inkbunny/status/1275437441168498689 "Our new Los Angeles cache also runs on 20% of a 3900X core; so if you support Team Red, you know where to go! Our submission caches in South America use 1/16th EPYC cores."] - Inkbunny, Twitter (23 June 2020)</ref> || 20%-core (+burst) [//www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-9-3900x Ryzen 9 3900X] 3.8-4.6GHz; 1GB DDR4-3200 RAM; 15GB NVMe (thumbnails & icons); 125GB HDD block store (submissions) || 5TB/month at 1Gbps || [[Wikipedia:Los Angeles|Los Angeles]], [[Wikipedia:California|California]], USA
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|data-sort-value="2020-05-01" | May 2020 || Caches ~125,000 original-sized files.
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| ''superbia''
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| rowspan="2" | [[Wikipedia:Midwestern United States|Midwest]]/[[Wikipedia:Upland South|Upland South]]/[[Wikipedia:Southeastern United States|Southeastern USA]]<ref name="NewCaches"/>
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| Single-core Xeon v4 2.4GHz; 1GB RAM; 40GB SSD || 4TB/month at 1Gbps
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| rowspan="2" | Manassas, Virginia, USA
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|data-sort-value="2015-06-01" | June 2015 || Serves ~125GB/day of page-size files/thumbs for 10¢. Originals served by ''fornicatio''.
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| ''talpaga'' || Dual-core [//ark.intel.com/products/91767 E5-2650 v4] 2.2-2.9Ghz; 4GB RAM; 60GB SSD || 8TB/month at 1Gbps
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|data-sort-value="2015-06-01" | October 2020 || Serves screen-sized files, reducing load on ''fornicatio''.
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| ''kenodoxia'' || [[Wikipedia:South Asia|South]] & [[Wikipedia:Southeast Asia|Southeast Asia]]<!--former stats--><ref>[https://twitter.com/Inkbunny/status/1202595106701922306 "Can't wait for [[Little Island Fur Con|@LittleIslandFC]], [[FURUM|@FURUM_MY]], [[PAWAI|@PAWAI_ID]] or [[FurryPinas|@FurryPinas]] to get your furry fix, and not lucky enough to be at #FurFest; but far-off FA is only abit fast? No more waiting: our new Singapore cache is now online! Dual core, 8GB RAM & 80GB SSD, serving you 3TB/month. This'll also help members in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines - and further west; India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Tibet and Myanmar. Closer to Sydney or Tokyo? Good news: those now pull from this cache, rather than go to Europe or the USA!"] - Inkbunny, Twitter (December 5, 2019)</ref> || 20%-core [//en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/xeon_platinum/8163 Xeon Platinum 8163] 2.5Ghz; 512MB RAM; 20GB SSD || 1TB/month at 5Mbps || [[Wikipedia:Singapore|Singapore]]
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|data-sort-value="2019-12-01" | July 2021 || Replaced a prior cache from December 2019
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| ''gula'' || [[Wikipedia:East Asia|East Asia]]<ref name="NewCaches"/><ref name="TokyoSydneyUpgrades">[https://twitter.com/Inkbunny/status/638969703923367936 "Our Tokyo and Sydney caches have been upgraded to 2TB/month transfer, and Tokyo can now store 250GB. Help us fill it up!"] - Inkbunny, Twitter (30 March 2016)</ref><!--No longer on HDD -GR--> || Single-core [//ark.intel.com/products/120495 Xeon Gold 6154] 2.6-3.7GHz; 2GB RAM; 55GB SSD<ref name="MakeRoom">[https://twitter.com/Inkbunny/status/870243664521572352 "Make room, make room! Caches in Sydney and Tokyo have been upgraded to 25GB, increasing the chance of an image being there when you need it."] - Inkbunny, Twitter (1 June 2017)</ref><ref name="">[https://twitter.com/Inkbunny/status/1104440678090706946 A furry wave is sweeping over East Asia, and flooding our Tokyo server! So we've doubled its size - 2GB RAM, 55GB SSD, 2TB transfer, and a faster CPU."]</ref> || 2TB/month out at 1Gbps || [[Wikipedia:Tokyo|Tokyo]], [[Wikipedia:Japan|Japan]]
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|data-sort-value="2015-06-01" | June 2015 ||  Upstream for ''kenodoxia'', ''yinyu''. Some originals served by ''luxuria''.
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| ''yinyu'' || [[Wikipedia:Greater China|Greater China]], [[Wikipedia:Mongolia|Mongolia]] & north [[Wikipedia:Laos|Laos]]/[[Wikipedia:Vietnam|Vietnam]]<ref name="ChinaCache">[https://twitter.com/Inkbunny/status/1260585846132137993 "Néih hóu, Hong Kong! We've found space in our budget to expand our network to your area, helping Chinese visitors and those nearby. Our tests show a ~50% cut in latency in areas this thumbnail server covers; most Chinese-speaking regions, northern Laos/Vietnam and Mongolia."] - Inkbunny, Twitter (13 May 2020)</ref><!---Outdated: <ref name="ChinaReview">[https://twitter.com/Inkbunny/status/1265377032747323398 "After reviewing traffic, we've upgraded our Hong Kong node to one with 2GB RAM, a 60GB SSD, and 2TB/month transfer - enough to serve newer submission files directly. CN2 GIA routes to China Telecom/Unicom/Mobile are being used to provide optimal speed for mainland visitors."] - Inkbunny, Twitter (26 May 2020)</ref>--> || Single-core [//ark.intel.com/products/120476 Xeon Gold 6138] 2.0-3.7GHz; 1GB RAM; 40GB SSD || Unmetered 1Mbps out || [[Wikipedia:Hong Kong|Hong Kong]], [[Wikipedia:China|China]]
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|data-sort-value="2020-05-01" | August 2021 || Replaced a prior cache from May 2020
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| ''invidia'' || [[Wikipedia:Oceania|Oceania]]<ref name="CacheNetwork"/><ref name="TokyoSydneyUpgrades" /> || Single-core [//ark.intel.com/products/91770 Xeon E5-2690 v4] 3.5GHz; 1GB RAM; 30GB SSD<ref name="MakeRoom" /><!--Stats differ due to provider switch in July 2018--> || 1TB/month at 100Mbps || [[Wikipedia:Sydney|Sydney]], [[Wikipedia:New South Wales|NSW]], [[Wikipedia:Australia|Australia]]
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|data-sort-value="2015-05-01" | May 2015 || Originals served by ''kenodoxia''. Some backgrounds served by [[Wikipedia:IBM Cloud|IBM Cloud]].<ref>[https://twitter.com/Inkbunny/status/1220086779124027393 "Aussies and Kiwis know their luck doesn't stretch to the net - the tyranny of distance makes downloads a trial - so we've stocked @IBMCloud Sydney with our site backgrounds, freeing up space in our cache for your own work."] - Inkbunny, Twitter (January 22, 2020)</ref>
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| rowspan="3" | [[Wikipedia:South America|South America]]<ref name="NewCaches"/><ref>[https://twitter.com/Inkbunny/status/1206753778441035777 "As promised, a gift for members in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uraguay, Paraguay and Bolivia: we've quadrupled the amount of data we can store in São Paulo, and increased our traffic budget by 10x"] - Inkbunny, Twitter (December 17, 2019)</ref>
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| Single-core [//ark.intel.com/products/92981 Xeon E5-2630 v4] 2.2-3.1GHz; 1GB DDR4-2133 ECC RAM; 40GB HDD w/SSD || 1TB/month<!--was 500GB, free upgrade--> at 500Mbps
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| rowspan="3" | [[Wikipedia:São Paulo|São Paulo]], [[Wikipedia:Brazil|Brazil]]
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|data-sort-value="2015-07-01" | July 2015 || Original/screen-sized files served by ''tristitia1/2''.
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| ''tristitia1/2'' || 1/8th-HT core (+burst) [//www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-epyc-7551 EPYC 7551] 2.0-3.0GHz; 1GB RAM; 50GB NVMe block store<ref name="AMDCores" />
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| rowspan="2" | 10TB/month at 1Gbps (shared)
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|data-sort-value="2019-12-01" | December 2019 || Each serves half the screen and original-sized files. Backgrounds on [[Wikipedia:Oracle Cloud|Oracle Cloud]] [[Wikipedia:Object storage|object storage]].
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| ''tristitia3'' || Quad-core [//www.anandtech.com/show/16315/the-ampere-altra-review Ampere Altra Q80-30 3.0Ghz]; 24GB RAM; 100GB NVMe block store<ref name="Christmas2021" />
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|data-sort-value="2021-12-01" | December 2021 || Backend store for original-sized files.
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| ''acedia'' || [[Wikipedia:British Isles|British Isles]] / Backup / Replication<ref>[https://inkbunny.net/j/262104 The Companion Cube that could!] - GreenReaper, Inkbunny (16 January 2017)</ref> || [http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/peripherals/servers/hp-proliant-microserver-gen8-review-1254460/review HP Gen8 MicroServer]; dual-core [//ark.intel.com/products/65703 Core i5-3470T] 2.9-3.6Ghz; 12GB DDR3-1333 ECC RAM; 2 x 4TB HDD; 2 x 512MB SSD || Unmetered 38Mbps out || [[Wikipedia:London|London]], [[Wikipedia:England|England]], [[Wikipedia:United Kingdom|UK]]
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|data-sort-value="2017-01-01" | January 2017 || [https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/warm-standby.html#CASCADING-REPLICATION Cascading replication] from ''phagos''.<ref name="Replication" />
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| ''muninn'' || [[Wikipedia:Munin (software)|Munin]] monitoring and alerts || Dual 12.5%-thread (+burst) 2.3-3.6Ghz [//ark.intel.com/products/81061 Xeon E5-2699 v3]; 1GB DDR4-2133 ECC RAM; 30GB HDD || 3GB/month out at 1Gbps || [[Wikipedia:Moncks Corner, South Carolina|Moncks Corner]], [[Wikipedia:South Carolina|South Carolina]], USA
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|data-sort-value="2020-01-01" | January 2020 || 1GB/month per region (Americas, Europe, Asia). Uses [[Wikipedia:Google App Engine|App Engine]] for 1GB/day graph viewing.
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Each cache VPS can store the data typically requested from it over at least three days.<ref name="CacheNetwork" /> They run on mainline [[Wikipedia:nginx|nginx]], supporting [[Wikipedia:HTTP/2|HTTP/2]].<ref>[https://twitter.com/Inkbunny/status/646442069834137600 "Our cache network now supports the latest and greatest network protocol, HTTP/2"] - Inkbunny, Twitter (22 September 2015)</ref> Over 20 million pageviews were served in October 2019.<ref name=PhagosNovember2019 />
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Inkbunny also maintains standalone code hosting, and off-site backups,<ref name="2014DonationDriveQA" /><ref>[https://inkbunny.net/j/71803#commentid_433839 Comment on ''IB needs donations! The little dog is begging $.$,''] - Starling, Inkbunny (21 February 2013)</ref> including [[Wikipedia:Replication (computing)#Database replication|streaming database replication]].<ref name="Replication" />
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;Historical servers and other services
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* ''elmo''<ref>''[https://inkbunny.net/j/154 Back online with new server - and cash still needed]'' - Starling, Inkbunny (28 May 2010)</ref> (4-core 2.13GHz Xeon, 4GB RAM, SATA2, unmetered 10Mbit connection<ref>''[https://inkbunny.net/j/150 New Server and long downtime around 1st June]'' - Starling, Inkbunny (27 May 2010)</ref>)
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* ''fluttershy''<ref>''[https://inkbunny.net/j/10005 Our new server, thanks to the sponsors]'' - Starling, Inkbunny (19 May 2011)</ref> (8-core 2.33GHz Xeon, 16GB RAM, 15kRPM SAS, later upgraded<ref>''[https://inkbunny.net/j/79210 IB Server Upgrade - Performance Graphs]'' - Inkbunny (14 April 2013)</ref> to 32GB and SSD database storage)
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* Original ''avarice''<ref>''[https://inkbunny.net/j/97908 New server online!]'' - Inkbunny (27 August 2013)</ref> ([http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04128166.pdf HP DL380e G8] with two hexa-core [//ark.intel.com/products/64617 Xeon E5-2420] 1.9-2.4GHz; 32GB [[Wikipedia:DDR3 SDRAM|DDR3]]-1333 [[Wikipedia:ECC memory|ECC]] RAM; 3TB [[Wikipedia:Standard RAID levels#RAID 5|RAID 5]] HDD [4 x 1TB] for submissions;<ref>''[https://inkbunny.net/j/166817 From 2TB to 3TB - how hard could it be?]'' - GreenReaper, Inkbunny (21 January 2015)</ref> 64GB [[Wikipedia:Solid-state drive|SSD]] [2 x 64GB [[Wikipedia:Standard RAID levels#RAID 1|RAID 1]]] for DB, unmetered 100Mbps) and its successor ([http://e.huawei.com/uk/products/cloud-computing-dc/servers/rh-series/rh2288-v3 Huawei RH2288 V3] with two 12-core [//ark.intel.com/products/91767 Xeon E5-2650 v4] 2.2-2.9GHz; 64GB [[Wikipedia:DDR4 SDRAM|DDR4]]-2133 [[Wikipedia:ECC memory|ECC]] RAM; 6TB [[Wikipedia:Standard RAID levels#RAID 5|RAID 5]] [4 x 2TB HDD, 1GB cache w/[[Wikipedia:Battery backup#Computers|BBU]]]; 240MB SSD RAID 1; 10TB/month in+out at 1Gbps) in Haarlem, Netherlands
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* A low-powered backups server, ''angel''<ref name="2014DonationDriveQA" /> (Core Duo T2450, 2GB RAM, 1TB SATA, 1U, 5TB/month traffic), named after [[wikia:mlp:Angel|the bunny in ''My Little Pony'']].<ref>[https://inkbunny.net/j/79079#commentid_476134 Comment on ''Inkbunny is growing up! SSD drives and more RAM''] - Starling, Inkbunny (13 April 2013)</ref>
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* An [[Wikipedia:ARM architecture|ARM]]-based test cache, ''studiose''<ref>''[https://inkbunny.net/j/202221 Delivering Inkbunny using the chips in your phone]'' - GreenReaper, Inkbunny (21 October 2015)</ref> (single-core 2.0Ghz [[Wikipedia:Cavium#ThunderX SoCs|Cavium ThunderX]]; 2GB RAM; 10GB HDD; 5TB/month at 1Gbps)
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* A cold-storage cache, ''ira'',<ref name="NewCaches" /> sponsored by [[Blu Paw Radio]], serving [[Wikipedia:Eastern Canada|Eastern Canada]] & [[Wikipedia:East North Central States|East North Central]]/[[Wikipedia:Northeastern United States|Northeast USA]] from [[Wikipedia:Beauharnois, Quebec|Beauharnois]], [[Wikipedia:Quebec|Quebec]], [[Wikipedia:Canada|Canada]] (single-core [//ark.intel.com/products/41313 Xeon W3530] 2.8-3.06Ghz; 10GB RAM; 1TB [[Wikipedia:Standard RAID levels#RAID 0|RAID 0]] on 2x2TB HDD; unmetered 250Mbps), and an unrelated cache of the same name serving thumbnails and new page-sized files to the UK and Ireland (single-core [//ark.intel.com/products/120495 Xeon Gold 6154] 3.0-3.7GHz; 1GB DDR4 ECC RAM; 25GB SSD; 1TB/month at 1Gbps)
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* [[W:OVH|OVH]]-sponsored caches ''nimis'' and ''laute'',<ref name="OVHDLP">''[https://inkbunny.net/j/225829 Speeding up the bunny: two caches sponsored by OVH]'' - Inkbunny (15 April 2016)</ref> serving [[Wikipedia:Eastern Canada|Eastern Canada]] & [[Wikipedia:East North Central States|East North Central]]/[[Wikipedia:Northeastern United States|Northeast USA]] and [[Wikipedia:Europe, the Middle East and Africa|EMEA]] & [[Wikipedia:Commonwealth of Independent States|CIS]] respectively, operating from [[Wikipedia:Beauharnois, Quebec|Beauharnois]], [[Wikipedia:Quebec|Quebec]], [[Wikipedia:Canada|Canada]] and [[Wikipedia:Gravelines|Gravelines]], [[Wikipedia:France|France]] (quad/dual-core [//ark.intel.com/products/83352 Xeon E5-2620 v3] 2.4-3.2GHz; 60/30GB RAM; 400/200GB [[W:Ceph (software)|fault-tolerant]] HDD; unmetered 250Mbps)
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* The original ''ardenter'', a secondary cache serving older page-sized files from [[Wikipedia:Piscataway, New Jersey|Piscataway]], [[Wikipedia:New Jersey|New&nbsp;Jersey]], USA for clients of ''superbia'' and ''praepropere'' in the [[Wikipedia:Midwestern United States|Midwest]]/[[Wikipedia:Southeastern United States|Southeastern USA]] & [[Wikipedia:Western Canada|Western Canada]] (single-core 2.4Ghz Xeon; 768MB RAM; 15GB SSD + 50GB SSD-backed SAN; 1TB/month at 1Gbps), and its successor (a dual-core [//ark.intel.com/products/92986 Xeon E5-2620 v4] 2.1-3.0GHz; 8GB DDR4 ECC RAM; 120GB SSD-accelerated [[Wikipedia:Storage area network|SAN]] + 240GB disk; 10TB/month at 200Mbps)
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* The original ''phagos''<ref name="2014DonationDrive" /> ([http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/servers/371272/hp-proliant-dl120-g7 HP DL120 G7] with a quad-core [//ark.intel.com/products/52276 Xeon E3-1270] 3.4-3.8GHz; 16GB DDR3-1333 ECC RAM; 3TB HDD [[Wikipedia:Standard RAID levels#RAID 5|RAID 5]] [4 x 1TB]; 100TB/month at 1Gbps) and its 2018 successor ([http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04128166.pdf HP DL380e G8] with two hexa-core [http://ark.intel.com/products/64617 Xeon E5-2420] 1.9-2.4GHz; 32GB [[Wikipedia:DDR3 SDRAM|DDR3]]-1333 ECC RAM; 6TB HDD [[Wikipedia:Standard RAID levels#RAID 5|RAID 5]] [4 x 2TB, 1GB cache w/BBU]; 10TB/month at 1Gbps)
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* ''praepropere'', a cache serving [[Wikipedia:Midwestern United States|Midwest]]/[[Wikipedia:Upland South|Upland South USA]] & [[Wikipedia:Western Canada|Western Canada]] from August 2016 to January 2019 (single-core [//ark.intel.com/products/91750 Xeon E5-2687W v4] 3.0-3.5GHz; 2GB DDR4 ECC RAM; 50GB SSD-accelerated [[Wikipedia:Storage area network|SAN]], 2TB/month out at 500Mbps).
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* ''laute'', a cache serving [[Wikipedia:Western Canada|Western Canada]], [[Wikipedia:Pacific Northwest|Pacific Northwest]] & [[Wikipedia:Northwestern United States|Northwest USA]] from [[Wikipedia:Seattle|Seattle]], [[Wikipedia:Washington|Washington]] (quad-core [//ark.intel.com/products/92981 Xeon E5-2630 v4] 2.2-3.1GHz; 8GB ECC RAM; 80GB SSD<ref>[https://twitter.com/Inkbunny/status/1230583497485672448 "Our Seattle cache has been doubled in size - to 80GB SSD"] - Inkbunny, Twitter (February 20, 2020)</ref>; some backgrounds served by [[Wikipedia:Backblaze|Backblaze B2]]/[[Wikipedia:Google Cloud Storage|Google Cloud]])
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* ''avaritia'', a cache serving [[Wikipedia:West South Central States|West South Central USA]], [[Wikipedia:Kansas|Kansas]] & [[Wikipedia:Mexico|Mexico]] from [[Wikipedia:Dallas|Dallas]], [[Wikipedia:Texas|Texas]] <!--Served [[Wikipedia:Guadalajara|Guadalajara]]/[[Wikipedia:Torreón|Torreón]] to [[Wikipedia:Campeche City|Campeche]], [[Wikipedia:Denver|Denver]], [[Wikipedia:El Paso, Texas|El Paso]], [[Wikipedia:Kansas City metropolitan area|Kansas City]], [[Wikipedia:Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]] and [[Wikipedia:Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]]-->(quad-core [//ark.intel.com/products/83359 Xeon E5-2640 v3] 2.6-3.4GHz; 8GB RAM; 80GB SSD; 8TB/month at 1Gbps)
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* ''natae'' and ''vanagloria'',<ref name="IncreasedUsage">[https://twitter.com/Inkbunny/status/1255867416036495362 "Seeing increased usage in recent weeks, we're deploying 64GB+ SSD-based thumbnail caches in San Francisco (covering Los Angeles), Seoul and Johannesburg to reduce latency for those furthest from our main servers."] - (30 April 2020)</ref> caches in [[Wikipedia:Johannesburg|Johannesburg]] and [[Wikipedia:Seoul|Seoul]] serving [[Wikipedia:South Korea|South Korea]] and [[Wikipedia:South Africa|South Africa]] & [[Wikipedia:Kenya|Kenya]] respectively, the latter accessed via CDN<ref>''[https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/0556d605-24e4-4308-80f7-20a9f8537e93/standard-cdn-from-microsoft-routes-south-african-pop-misses-via-london-origin-shield-not-direct-to?forum=azurecdn Standard CDN from Microsoft routes South African POP misses via London origin shield, not direct to South Africa North VM]'' - GreenReaper, [[Wikipedia:Microsoft Azure|Azure]] CDN forum (6 May 2020)</ref> (10%-core [+burst] [//en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/xeon_e5/e5-2673_v4 Xeon E5-2573 v4] 2.3-3.6Ghz; 1GB DDR4-2400 ECC RAM; 4GB NVMe; 64GB SSD)
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* ''ira'', a cache serving [[Wikipedia:Florida|Florida]], [[Wikipedia:Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], [[Wikipedia:South Carolina|South Carolina]] & [[Wikipedia:Alabama|Alabama]] (west of [[Wikipedia:Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]] to [[Wikipedia:Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]], north to [[Wikipedia:Atlanta|Atlanta]])<ref name="LAandOrlando" /> from  [[Wikipedia:Orlando|Orlando]], [[Wikipedia:Florida|Florida]] (single-core Xeon 2.1GHz; 1GB RAM; 40GB SSD; 50GB HDD block store; 3TB/month at 1Gbps)
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* [https://wiki.inkbunny.net Inkbunny Wiki] - site information, including [https://wiki.inkbunny.net/wiki/Hacks,_Scripts_and_Mods#Apps_using_the_API apps using the Inkbunny API]
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* [https://twitter.com/inkbunny Inkbunny] on [[Twitter]]
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* [https://www.facebook.com/InkbunnyNews Inkbunny] (InkbunnyNews) on [[Facebook]]
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* [http://www.redbubble.com/people/inkbunny Inkbunny merchandise] on [[Wikipedia:Redbubble|Redbubble]]
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* [https://www.linkedin.com/company/inkbunny Inkbunny] on [[Wikipedia:LinkedIn|LinkedIn]]
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* [https://fa2ib.welcomefur.com/ Fur Affinity to Inkbunny migrator tool] (by [[Salmy]])
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* [http://www.humbird0.com/content/show.htm#/addons/inkbunny_downloader Inkbunny downloader Firefox add-on] (by [[Humbird0]])
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* [https://inkbunny.net/s/1541258 IB Downloader] by [[Bunny Foxglove]]
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Revision as of 14:52, 29 January 2022

Inkbunny
InkBunny logo.png
Author(s) Owner/Lead admin: GreenReaper[1]
Website
https://inkbunny.net/
Status Active
Launch date 9 March 2010 – 12 June 2010 (closed beta length)
Genre Furry art community
Rating(s)
Web G
Web NC-17
Inkbunny mascot, drawn by BA

Inkbunny is a community art site catering to adult furry fans. It went live on June 12, 2010[3] after a three month beta,[4] and won Best Website at the 2017 Ursa Major Awards.[5]

Inkbunny has over 715,000 registered members (~31,000 visit in any given day), 1,919,000 submissions and 234,000 journals as of December 2021.[6] The site mascot is a pink rabbit.[7]

Philosophy and content

Inkbunny exists to help artists share and sell their work.[8] The site once took a commission on the sale and distribution of high-resolution digital downloads and prints, but now donations and merchandise are its sole sources of income;[9] no fees are charged to join, display work, engage in business or accept donations on the site.

Inkbunny welcomes furries with various interests, fetishes, and 'philias. To facilitate positive interactions, members can moderate their submissions and journals, ban disruptive users from commenting and contacting them, and block work by keyword, rating or artist.[8] This is the origin of the site software's name, Harmony.

While Inkbunny only admits adult members, half of all hosted work is general-rated.[6] To avoid legal issues, humans and "essentially human" neko characters may not be depicted nude or in sexual situations.[10] Derivative works are prohibited without explicit permission and material changes, and photography is limited to backgrounds and the display of artwork (including limited fursuit photos).[10]

Several of Inkbunny's founding staff and testers were involved with Softpaw, a cub porn magazine; the proportion of such content spiked after FA banned it and recommended Inkbunny as an alternative host,[11] but as of May 2014 only 9% of the site's submissions were tagged "cub", including general-audience works.

Features

See also: Comparison of furry art sites

Inkbunny introduced features which were previously unavailable on most competing furry art archives, including:

  • Keyword- and artist-based submission blocking, including blocks based on a combination of rating and keyword (e.g. sexually-adult My Little Pony work)
  • Multi-file submissions, intended for multi-page comics, but also used for alternate versions, sketches accompanying a finished work, and sketch-dumps
  • Pools, ordered sets of submissions related by theme or work; like folders, but one submission can be in many pools
  • Keyword suggestions from users, with the goal of improving the site's search and blocking features
  • Always-on HTTPS to avoid wireless traffic sniffing at conventions, and IP Ranges to control account access[12]
  • Bulk upload via ZIP files, to both multiple submissions and individual multi-file submissions
  • Stream announcements, separate from artistic submissions and journals, and character sheets as a subset of submissions
  • High-definition images displayed on-page,[13] with support for file sizes up to 100MB[14] and 144 MegaPixels/16K UHD (e.g. 12000x12000, 18000x8000)[15]
  • Preloaded images and pre-rendered pages, speeding up access to adjacent content[16]
  • A self-managed content delivery network, targeted via geolocation, with per-user control over the server used[17]
  • Per-watch and account-wide notification filters, to customize receipt of notices on topics such as submissions, journals, streams, +favs, and watches[16]
  • Account renaming, including modification of all mentions using site syntax, and continued handling of previous names[16]
  • Encrypted private message and support tickets, limiting potential loss in the event of a security vulnerability[12][18]
  • Mention notifications, letting members know when they have been referenced by others[18]
  • API support for developers, easing automated access to most read-only functions and submission posting[19]
  • Streaming off-site and off-server database replication, to avoid data loss in the event of a disaster[20]

Hardware

Inkbunny leases its servers, and has combined them with VPS caches to create a private CDN for public content,[17][21][22] delivering ~25TB to users in December 2017.[23]

Inkbunny raised $10,400 in a December 2014 donation drive, securing three years of funding for its Netherlands servers.[24][25] A one-week drive in March 2020 raised over $5000 from 72 donors.[26]

Inkbunny's servers are named after the seven deadly sins (including historical and linguistic variants):

Name Purpose / Area Hardware Network Location Launched Notes
avarice Web server / Database Supermicro X10SDV-4C-TLN2F; quad-core Xeon D-1521 2.4-2.7Ghz; 16GB DDR4-2133 ECC RAM; 12TB RAID 5 (4 x 4TB HDD); 500MB NVMe Unmetered 500Mbps[27] Gravelines, France March 2020 Processes submissions; serves pages and private files; source for caches. 500MB NFS backup.
phagos EMEA & CIS / Staging / Backups[24] / DB replication[20] HP DL180 Gen6; 2 x quad-core Xeon E5620 2.4-2.66Ghz; 64GB DDR3-1333 ECC RAM; 500GB RAID 10, 14.5TB RAID 5 (6 x 3TB HDD)[28] 30TB/month at 1Gbps Haarlem, Netherlands December 2019 Serves public files; hosts Inkbunny wiki. 12x LFF. Hardware RAID with 512MB BBU cache.
fornicatio Americas / Large files / Second-level cache[29] HP DL120 G6; dual-core Pentium G6950 2.8GHz; 16GB DDR3-1333 ECC RAM; 3TB RAID 5 (4 x 1TB HDD) 15TB/month[30] at 1Gbps[31] Manassas, Virginia, USA December 2016 Primary upstream for caches in the Americas. Serves large files to users of smaller caches.
nimis Eastern Canada & East North Central/Northeast USA Supermicro X10SDV-4C-TLN2F; quad-core Xeon D-1521 2.4-2.7Ghz; 32GB DDR4-2133 ECC RAM; 500GB RAID 10, 5TB RAID 5 (4 x 2TB HDD)[32] Unmetered 250Mbps Beauharnois, Quebec, Canada December 2020 Replaced prior caches from February 2017 and November 2020.
luxuria Western USA & Northwestern Mexico[17] Dual-core Xeon E5-2680 v2 2.8-3.6GHz; 4GB RAM; 50GB SSD (thumbnails & page-size files); 50GB HDD (originals) Unmetered 1Gbps Phoenix, Arizona, USA May 2015 Sponsored by Bad Dragon. Caches ~50,000 original-sized files.[33]
saegyog California, Reno & southern Oregon[34][35] 20%-core (+burst) Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8-4.6GHz; 1GB DDR4-3200 RAM; 15GB NVMe (thumbnails & icons); 125GB HDD block store (submissions) 5TB/month at 1Gbps Los Angeles, California, USA May 2020 Caches ~125,000 original-sized files.
superbia Midwest/Upland South/Southeastern USA[21] Single-core Xeon v4 2.4GHz; 1GB RAM; 40GB SSD 4TB/month at 1Gbps Manassas, Virginia, USA June 2015 Serves ~125GB/day of page-size files/thumbs for 10¢. Originals served by fornicatio.
talpaga Dual-core E5-2650 v4 2.2-2.9Ghz; 4GB RAM; 60GB SSD 8TB/month at 1Gbps October 2020 Serves screen-sized files, reducing load on fornicatio.
kenodoxia South & Southeast Asia[36] 20%-core Xeon Platinum 8163 2.5Ghz; 512MB RAM; 20GB SSD 1TB/month at 5Mbps Singapore July 2021 Replaced a prior cache from December 2019
gula East Asia[21][37] Single-core Xeon Gold 6154 2.6-3.7GHz; 2GB RAM; 55GB SSD[38][39] 2TB/month out at 1Gbps Tokyo, Japan June 2015 Upstream for kenodoxia, yinyu. Some originals served by luxuria.
yinyu Greater China, Mongolia & north Laos/Vietnam[40] Single-core Xeon Gold 6138 2.0-3.7GHz; 1GB RAM; 40GB SSD Unmetered 1Mbps out Hong Kong, China August 2021 Replaced a prior cache from May 2020
invidia Oceania[17][37] Single-core Xeon E5-2690 v4 3.5GHz; 1GB RAM; 30GB SSD[38] 1TB/month at 100Mbps Sydney, NSW, Australia May 2015 Originals served by kenodoxia. Some backgrounds served by IBM Cloud.[41]
tristitia South America[21][42] Single-core Xeon E5-2630 v4 2.2-3.1GHz; 1GB DDR4-2133 ECC RAM; 40GB HDD w/SSD 1TB/month at 500Mbps São Paulo, Brazil July 2015 Original/screen-sized files served by tristitia1/2.
tristitia1/2 1/8th-HT core (+burst) EPYC 7551 2.0-3.0GHz; 1GB RAM; 50GB NVMe block store[35] 10TB/month at 1Gbps (shared) December 2019 Each serves half the screen and original-sized files. Backgrounds on Oracle Cloud object storage.
tristitia3 Quad-core Ampere Altra Q80-30 3.0Ghz; 24GB RAM; 100GB NVMe block store[32] December 2021 Backend store for original-sized files.
acedia British Isles / Backup / Replication[43] HP Gen8 MicroServer; dual-core Core i5-3470T 2.9-3.6Ghz; 12GB DDR3-1333 ECC RAM; 2 x 4TB HDD; 2 x 512MB SSD Unmetered 38Mbps out London, England, UK January 2017 Cascading replication from phagos.[20]
muninn Munin monitoring and alerts Dual 12.5%-thread (+burst) 2.3-3.6Ghz Xeon E5-2699 v3; 1GB DDR4-2133 ECC RAM; 30GB HDD 3GB/month out at 1Gbps Moncks Corner, South Carolina, USA January 2020 1GB/month per region (Americas, Europe, Asia). Uses App Engine for 1GB/day graph viewing.

Each cache VPS can store the data typically requested from it over at least three days.[17] They run on mainline nginx, supporting HTTP/2.[44] Over 20 million pageviews were served in October 2019.[28]

Inkbunny also maintains standalone code hosting, and off-site backups,[25][45] including streaming database replication.[20]

Historical servers and other services

References

  1. ↑ Site ownership change - Starling, Inkbunny (19 November 2013)
  2. ↑ "Admins and Mods" - Inkbunny
  3. ↑ Inkbunny Beta goes LIVE - Inkbunny (12 June 2010)
  4. ↑ 2,000+ new members in 24hrs, Site Speed, Rules - Inkbunny (14 June 2014)
  5. ↑ 2017 Ursa Major Award winners announced at FurDU 2018 - dronon, Flayrah (5 May 2018)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Statistics" - Inkbunny
  7. ↑ Inkbunny user profile
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "The Inkbunny Philosophy" - Inkbunny
  9. ↑ "Donations" - Inkbunny
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Acceptable Content Policy - Inkbunny Wiki
  11. ↑ Fur Affinity loses AlertPay account, bans cub porn - GreenReaper, Flayrah (24 November 2010)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Fully encrypted, all the time - Inkbunny (29 December 2010)
  13. ↑ Release 76 - Huge thumbs, 4K/QHD upgrades, gallery timeline & improved image processing - Inkbunny (25 February 2016)
  14. ↑ "36MB is kinda small for video uploads. How about 100MB?" - Inkbunny, Twitter (9 October 2020)
  15. ↑ Inkbunny submission page (login required). Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Release 74 - Notification filters, user rename, shout/PM controls, prefetch, PNG icons & more! - Inkbunny (21 November 2015)
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 Cache network engaged - Bad Dragon sponsors U.S. cache node - Inkbunny (9 May 2015)
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Release 77 - Mo' mentions, mo' mobile… and more secure - Inkbunny (10 September 2016)
  19. ↑ API - Inkbunny Wiki
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 Streaming database replication to Inkbunny's secondary server - GreenReaper, Inkbunny (21 February 2016)
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 Cache network extended to East Coast, Japan and Brazil - Inkbunny (9 July 2015)
  22. ↑ Two caches, both alike in symmetry… - GreenReaper, Inkbunny (9 May 2015)
  23. ↑ "December got pretty intense: @Inkbunny soaked up ~37.5TB of outbound transfer; ~25TB to users, the rest for inter-cache transfers, backups, and DB replication. We used ~66% of our 53TB max capacity, excluding @bad_dragon's unmetered cache. One U.S. server hit 94% usage!" - GreenReaper, Twitter (8 January 2018)
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 Putting your donations to work - Inkbunny (4 January 2015)
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 Inkbunny 2014 Donation Drive Q&A - Inkbunny (2 December 2014)
  26. ↑ "Many, many thanks to the 72 donors who collectively contributed over $5000 to our coffers over the last week." - Inkbunny, Twitter (6 March 2020)
  27. ↑ "As for the server itself, the board's a bit smaller than before, but perfectly formed. Size doesn't matter, right?
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 "In October, all three of our dedicated servers hit their transfer limits… so it's a great time for an upgrade! We scoured the web for deals, securing a new Netherlands Cache with 3x transfer (30TB), 2.5x storage (15TB) and 2x RAM (64GB) - for just 70% of what we paid in 2018. The new server will launch in December and brings our dedicated transfer capacity to 55TB, plus 40TB provided by VPS caches around the world - hopefully enough to sate the 20 million monthly pageviews we've been getting." - Inkbunny, Twitter (November 9, 2019)
  29. ↑ Americas served 'til 2019 by dedicated cache - Inkbunny (25 December 2016)
  30. ↑ "Also, having seen an increase in demand, we're in discussion with our hosts to raise transfer on our main cache in Virginia to 15TB/month." - Inkbunny, Twitter (3 December 2018)
  31. ↑ "In December 2018, we upgraded our main Virginia cache to 15TB/month. For that much traffic, 100Mbps doesn't really cut it - especially serving those on fibre. How does 1Gbps sound?" - Inkbunny, Twitter (January 16, 2020)
  32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 "Christmas has come early in the Americas! Our dedicated Quebec cache has been upgraded to 4x2TB disks and DDR4 RAM, while in São Paulo we've added a quad-core ARM64 VM with 24GB RAM and 100GB SSD to our setup to speed up delivery of larger files across South America." - Inkbunny, Twitter (20 December 2021)
  33. ↑ Comment to IB Downloader - GreenReaper, Inkbunny (10 May 2015)
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 After seeing yet another traffic increase, we've deployed a cache in Orlando, Florida (1GB RAM, 40GB SSD+50GB HDD, 3TB/mo.) and upped California to 15+125GB, 5TB/mo." - Inkbunny, Twitter (23 June 2020)
  35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 "Our new Los Angeles cache also runs on 20% of a 3900X core; so if you support Team Red, you know where to go! Our submission caches in South America use 1/16th EPYC cores." - Inkbunny, Twitter (23 June 2020)
  36. ↑ "Can't wait for @LittleIslandFC, @FURUM_MY, @PAWAI_ID or @FurryPinas to get your furry fix, and not lucky enough to be at #FurFest; but far-off FA is only abit fast? No more waiting: our new Singapore cache is now online! Dual core, 8GB RAM & 80GB SSD, serving you 3TB/month. This'll also help members in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines - and further west; India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Tibet and Myanmar. Closer to Sydney or Tokyo? Good news: those now pull from this cache, rather than go to Europe or the USA!" - Inkbunny, Twitter (December 5, 2019)
  37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 "Our Tokyo and Sydney caches have been upgraded to 2TB/month transfer, and Tokyo can now store 250GB. Help us fill it up!" - Inkbunny, Twitter (30 March 2016)
  38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 "Make room, make room! Caches in Sydney and Tokyo have been upgraded to 25GB, increasing the chance of an image being there when you need it." - Inkbunny, Twitter (1 June 2017)
  39. ↑ A furry wave is sweeping over East Asia, and flooding our Tokyo server! So we've doubled its size - 2GB RAM, 55GB SSD, 2TB transfer, and a faster CPU."
  40. ↑ "Néih hóu, Hong Kong! We've found space in our budget to expand our network to your area, helping Chinese visitors and those nearby. Our tests show a ~50% cut in latency in areas this thumbnail server covers; most Chinese-speaking regions, northern Laos/Vietnam and Mongolia." - Inkbunny, Twitter (13 May 2020)
  41. ↑ "Aussies and Kiwis know their luck doesn't stretch to the net - the tyranny of distance makes downloads a trial - so we've stocked @IBMCloud Sydney with our site backgrounds, freeing up space in our cache for your own work." - Inkbunny, Twitter (January 22, 2020)
  42. ↑ "As promised, a gift for members in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uraguay, Paraguay and Bolivia: we've quadrupled the amount of data we can store in São Paulo, and increased our traffic budget by 10x" - Inkbunny, Twitter (December 17, 2019)
  43. ↑ The Companion Cube that could! - GreenReaper, Inkbunny (16 January 2017)
  44. ↑ "Our cache network now supports the latest and greatest network protocol, HTTP/2" - Inkbunny, Twitter (22 September 2015)
  45. ↑ Comment on IB needs donations! The little dog is begging $.$, - Starling, Inkbunny (21 February 2013)
  46. ↑ Back online with new server - and cash still needed - Starling, Inkbunny (28 May 2010)
  47. ↑ New Server and long downtime around 1st June - Starling, Inkbunny (27 May 2010)
  48. ↑ Our new server, thanks to the sponsors - Starling, Inkbunny (19 May 2011)
  49. ↑ IB Server Upgrade - Performance Graphs - Inkbunny (14 April 2013)
  50. ↑ New server online! - Inkbunny (27 August 2013)
  51. ↑ From 2TB to 3TB - how hard could it be? - GreenReaper, Inkbunny (21 January 2015)
  52. ↑ Comment on Inkbunny is growing up! SSD drives and more RAM - Starling, Inkbunny (13 April 2013)
  53. ↑ Delivering Inkbunny using the chips in your phone - GreenReaper, Inkbunny (21 October 2015)
  54. ↑ Speeding up the bunny: two caches sponsored by OVH - Inkbunny (15 April 2016)
  55. ↑ "Our Seattle cache has been doubled in size - to 80GB SSD" - Inkbunny, Twitter (February 20, 2020)
  56. ↑ "Seeing increased usage in recent weeks, we're deploying 64GB+ SSD-based thumbnail caches in San Francisco (covering Los Angeles), Seoul and Johannesburg to reduce latency for those furthest from our main servers." - (30 April 2020)
  57. ↑ Standard CDN from Microsoft routes South African POP misses via London origin shield, not direct to South Africa North VM - GreenReaper, Azure CDN forum (6 May 2020)

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