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The strategy that (almost always) works is: <em>If something is good, double it. It should be even greater</em>. It applies to rainbows for sure. We are no magicians to control weather for sure, but there is something we can do…</p> <p>I am glad to announce that we have just doubled storage space for all premium accounts. From now on you can enjoy twice as much space for your uploaded files. The new storage amounts are:</p> <table style="text-align: center; margin: 10px auto; font-size: 20px; border-spacing: 10px; border-collapse: separate;"> <tr> <td>Pro Lite</td> <td><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">15 GB</span></td> <td><strong>30 GB</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pro</td> <td><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">50 GB</span></td> <td><strong>100 GB</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Pro Plus</td> <td><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">100 GB</span></td> <td><strong>200 GB</strong></td> </tr> </table> </div> <div class="blogpost-comments"> <p><a class="icon" href="http://blog.wikidot.com/blog:doubling-storage#comments">7 <span class="icon-comments-alt"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></a> <a class="btn btn-default readmore" href="http://blog.wikidot.com/blog:doubling-storage">Read more</a></p> </div> <div style="clear:both; height: 0px; font-size: 1px"></div> <hr /> </div> <div class="list-pages-item"> <div class="page-title blogpost-title"> <p><a href="/blog:bitcoin-black-friday-2">Black Friday 40% OFF - starting now!</a></p> </div> <div class="blogpost-author"> <p>by michal-frackowiak on <span class="odate time_1416996735 format_%25e%20%25B%20%25Y%2C%20%25H%3A%25M">26 Nov 2014 10:12</span></p> </div> <div class="blogpost-content"> <p>Black Friday is coming this week, but why wait? We decided to start the celebration <strong>right now</strong>. Each year we have something special. This time it's no different. Let's get to the point:</p> <div class="image-container aligncenter"><img src="http://blog.wdfiles.com/local--files/files/WikidotBF2014.png" style="max-width: 80%" alt="WikidotBF2014.png" class="image" /></div> <p>Anytime between now and 3 December if you upgrade or prolong your subscription and select "Bitcoin" at the end of checkout — you will get <strong>40% off the final price</strong>.</p> </div> <div class="blogpost-comments"> <p><a class="icon" href="http://blog.wikidot.com/blog:bitcoin-black-friday-2#comments">2 <span class="icon-comments-alt"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></a> <a class="btn btn-default readmore" href="http://blog.wikidot.com/blog:bitcoin-black-friday-2">Read more</a></p> </div> <div style="clear:both; height: 0px; font-size: 1px"></div> <hr /> </div> <div class="list-pages-item"> <div class="page-title blogpost-title"> <p><a href="/blog:startup-weekend-torun">Startup Weekend Toru艅</a></p> </div> <div class="blogpost-author"> <p>by michal-frackowiak on <span class="odate time_1415878751 format_%25e%20%25B%20%25Y%2C%20%25H%3A%25M">13 Nov 2014 11:39</span></p> </div> <div class="blogpost-content"> <p>Wow. It was an intense weekend. I have already <a href="http://blog.wikidot.com/blog:join-us-at-startup-weekend-torun">blogged</a> about the first edition of <a href="http://www.up.co/communities/poland/torun/startup-weekend/4336">Startup Weekend Toru艅</a> and it actually did happen! And man, it was awesome. How much awesome? Check out this short movie!</p> <div style="text-align: center;"> <p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/x125eefQ3-g" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p> </div> <p>Thanks to organizers who asked me to mentor the teams. I really enjoyed it (you can see me in the movie too) and I believe the teams benefited from my experience and tips. I am also happy that Wikidot could support this initiative.</p> </div> <div class="blogpost-comments"> <p><a class="icon" href="http://blog.wikidot.com/blog:startup-weekend-torun#comments">5 <span class="icon-comments-alt"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></a> <a class="btn btn-default readmore" href="http://blog.wikidot.com/blog:startup-weekend-torun">Read more</a></p> </div> <div style="clear:both; height: 0px; font-size: 1px"></div> <hr /> </div> <div class="list-pages-item"> <div class="page-title blogpost-title"> <p><a href="/blog:scaling-issue">"Scaling issue" - what happened over the weekend and why HAProxy is better than ELB</a></p> </div> <div class="blogpost-author"> <p>by michal-frackowiak on <span class="odate time_1415191388 format_%25e%20%25B%20%25Y%2C%20%25H%3A%25M">05 Nov 2014 12:43</span></p> </div> <div class="blogpost-content"> <p>Last Friday I started drafting a new blog post about Wikidot server uptime. Every month <a href="http://pingdom.com">Pingdom</a> sends us a monthly report with average response times, uptime summaries for various checks we have. The numbers are always stellar — something around 99.99% uptime with only a few minutes of detected outages.</p> <h2><span>Friday night, a thriller story</span></h2> <p>Our infrastructure is pretty stable and resilient, so I was hoping to get 100% uptime on November. Suddenly on Friday evening we started getting various alerts, from Pingdom, CloudWatch and other services. Something was wrong. Wikidot was slow — loading a page could take up to a minute, sometimes pages could not load at all. Pingdom alerts acted like crazy — various wikis went down and up radomly.</p> <div class="image-container aligncenter"><img src="http://blog.wdfiles.com/local--files/files/Pingdom1.jpg" style="width:500px; max-width:100%;-moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 8px #ccc; -webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 8px #ccc; box-shadow: 3px 3px 8px #ccc;" alt="Pingdom1.jpg" class="image" /></div> </div> <div class="blogpost-comments"> <p><a class="icon" href="http://blog.wikidot.com/blog:scaling-issue#comments">5 <span class="icon-comments-alt"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></a> <a class="btn btn-default readmore" href="http://blog.wikidot.com/blog:scaling-issue">Read more</a></p> </div> <div style="clear:both; height: 0px; font-size: 1px"></div> <hr /> </div> <div class="list-pages-item"> <div class="page-title blogpost-title"> <p><a href="/blog:join-us-at-startup-weekend-torun">Join us at Startup Weekend in Toru艅, 7-9 Nov</a></p> </div> <div class="blogpost-author"> <p>by michal-frackowiak on <span class="odate time_1414052679 format_%25e%20%25B%20%25Y%2C%20%25H%3A%25M">23 Oct 2014 08:24</span></p> </div> <div class="blogpost-content"> <p>Toru艅 is clearly emerging as an important place on the start-up map in Poland. Not only the number of technology companies increases, but what's more important, we can see the local entrepreneur scene forming, stimulated by numerous events and organizations. There are strong communities of developers, entrepreneurs, IT-gurus, designers and investors gathering around <a href="http://missiontorun.org/en/">Mission Torun</a>, <a href="http://smartspace.io/en">Smart Space</a> and <a href="http://bl.przedsiebiorca.pl/">Business Link</a>. The ecosystem is forming and it's really, really great to see (and be part of)!</p> <div class="image-container aligncenter"><img src="http://blog.wdfiles.com/local--files/files/SW1.png" style="width:600px; max-width:100%;-moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #ccc; -webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #ccc; box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #ccc;" alt="SW1.png" class="image" /></div> <p>There is one special event in Toru艅 I would like to invite you to. It's <a href="http://www.up.co/communities/poland/torun/startup-weekend/4336">Startup Weekend, on 7-9 November</a>.</p> </div> <div class="blogpost-comments"> <p><a class="icon" href="http://blog.wikidot.com/blog:join-us-at-startup-weekend-torun#comments">2 <span class="icon-comments-alt"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></a> <a class="btn btn-default readmore" href="http://blog.wikidot.com/blog:join-us-at-startup-weekend-torun">Read more</a></p> </div> <div style="clear:both; height: 0px; font-size: 1px"></div> <hr /> </div> <div class="list-pages-item"> <div class="page-title blogpost-title"> <p><a href="/blog:sslv3-vulnerability-poodle">SSLv3 vulnerability - POODLE</a></p> </div> <div class="blogpost-author"> <p>by michal-frackowiak on <span class="odate time_1413446121 format_%25e%20%25B%20%25Y%2C%20%25H%3A%25M">16 Oct 2014 07:55</span></p> </div> <div class="blogpost-content"> <div class="image-container floatright"><img src="http://blog.wdfiles.com/local--files/files/poodle.jpg" style="width:181px; height:181px;-moz-box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #ccc; -webkit-box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #ccc; box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #ccc;" alt="poodle.jpg" class="image" /></div> <p>Dear Wikidot Users,</p> <p>on Tuesday, October 14, 2014, the Google research team <a href="http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/10/this-poodle-bites-exploiting-ssl-30.html">released details</a> on a new form of attack on the SSL protocol — the one that underlays the secure connections over <tt>http<strong>s</strong>://</tt>. It's called <strong>POODLE</strong> (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) and it targets CBC ciphers in SSLv3. Is it serious? <strong>Yes</strong>.</p> <p>An attacker can perform a man-in-the-middle attack, force a fall-back to SSLv3 (which is an old, almost legacy protocol) and de facto decrypt "secure" client-server transmission. The attacker must however place himself between the client and the server, e.g. acting as a WiFi access point, or gain access to routers or gateways. It's not that uncommon as you think.</p> <p>The general recommendation is not to use the vulnerable SSLv3 and completely remove it from the supported protocols.</p> <p>At Wikidot we have <strong>already pulled SSLv3 from all our servers</strong> — all our load balancers and all standalone web servers. It should not affect anything from the user perspective, but it greatly improves the security. Want to verify? 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