After an embarrassingly long outage (which I was completely unaware of, making it even more humiliating), I restarted the server and TF2Toolbox is back.

I've also set up monitoring with Pingdom, so that within 5 minutes of the site going down I will get text messages alerting me of the status of TF2Toolbox. So this will NOT happen again, and I am terribly sorry and embarrassed :(

Thanks for your patience!

Fonts/javascript/style are now cached for the far future - basically, instead of reloading fonts/javascript/style every few hours or so, you'll only download that stuff if it changes or if you've cleared your browser cache.

TLDR: Less network traffic on TF2Toolbox = faster!

Feel free to fork and check it out :)

https://github.com/VMDX/tf2toolbox

For those of you who have wanted to support TF2Toolbox in the past, now you can :) Thanks all.

Here is the official message I am putting out on forums:

Hey everyone,

TF2Toolbox has come a long way since its launch just over 6 months ago. It has served up over 250,000 pageviews to over 26,000 unique visitors and parsed BBCode for at least 50,000 backpacks. Amazing! :)

Someone asked on the Formspring a long time back if there was a way to donate, to give back to TF2Toolbox. I never did get around to setting that up until now (frankly, coding the toolbox is much more fun than wrangling with Paypal, hehe :)). But at this point I'd love to welcome any support you'd like to give back to TF2Toolbox. Monthly costs are about $30/month for hosting and domain name, and all of that comes completely out of my pocket. Your help is greatly appreciated!

I am looking forward to continuing to make TF2Toolbox helpful for everyone. Please note that you can always give feedback in a variety of ways, including:

- The TF2Toolbox Formspring: http://www.formspring.me/tf2toolbox
- The TF2Toolbox Steam Group: http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/groups/tf2toolbox
- The SPUF TF2Toolbox thread: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1783903
- ... and just by using the site! Any time a 500 error occurs I get an email about it :)

Thanks all for being the best users!

VMDX

I see there are already 20 or so members :) but I haven't actually said welcome yet.

Welcome!

I'll be posting TF2Toolbox updates here and checking back frequently for feedback and suggestions :)