AGNPH
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AGNPH is a an archive of mature artwork and stories relating to the Pokémon series of video games and television shows. Its name stands for alt.games.nintendo.pokemon.hentai, the newsgroup from which it was originally formed.
- Address: http://www.agnph.com/
- IRC: #agnph
- Founder: MWF (Newsgroup), Racso (Website)
- Hosting: DrGamez and Eevee
- Administrators: DrGamez, Psyco_Charmander, Eevee, and Ardy
- Ran from/to:
- alt.games.nintendo.pokemon.hentai: 21 December 1998 - ? (abandoned)
- Old AGNPH Archive: 16 March 1999 - 15 June 2000 (designed by Racso)
- New AGNPH Archive: 11 December 2003 - present (designed by DrGamez)
As of 29 May 2007, the gallery contained 8,444 files, 45,628 comments, and 597 albums, while the story archive contained the works of around 400 authors.
[edit] IRC channel
The #agnph irc channel is currently found on their own network.
#agnph was founded on Undernet in late 1999. In 2000 it was moved to Esper, which would be its "home" for the longest block of time so far. In 2004 DrGamez revived the chatroom as well as the website, moving it to Furnet for a short time; by late 2004 the chatroom was moved back to Esper, after Psyco_Charmander managed to obtain founder status from Saber. On July 3, 2005 #agnph was moved from Esper to its new, permanent home on their own server (irc.agnph.com).
Psyco_Charmander is the current Network Administrator, inheriting the #agnph channel on Esper from Saber.
[edit] History
The original AGNPH Archive was proposed to the group on 03/11/99 and first opened on 03/16/99.
The site was created for those who could not access the actual group, as in those early days there were many on AGFFH who could not get there, but wanted to see the images, so the Archive was created for them, as well as for those who could get to the group, but may miss posts for one reason or another.
The Original Archive was designed and maintained solely by Racso.
The Archive was originally created just for the binary posts, but as since become a home to AGNPH's binaries, stories, and even stories and images submitted directly to the site, that never even see the light of the actual group.
Late 2003, Lando and Psyco_Charmander approached DrGamez with an idea to re-open the AGNPH. Having some free space on his then limited hosting DrGamez decided to design and host the website. The first incarnation was quite crude when compared to other websites or even the current form of the archive now. The stories' archive was hand updated by Lando, which included a very lengthy and non-streamlined process. The gallery then was running off Gallery, a crude and simple photo management system.
It was at this time the admins were looking around for different hosting options. Racso of the original AGNPH archive had gotten in contact with the current operators, offering them not only agnph.com (they were using .net until now) but also plenty of bandwidth and space to house the quickly growing archive.
After a few days of downtime AGNPH.com was finally up and running on new hardware, sporting near a terabyte of free bandwidth to burn. It was at this time the oekaki was put back in the website, drawing a smaller section of users to contribute in a different way.
Now freed from the financial burden of hosting AGNPH DrGamez was more able to promote the website. Starting with a few small contests ranging from story writing to full art contests the prizes were handed out to anyone who entered and won. Ranging from video games, to iPods, and even Zeta Creations toys the contests were always an attraction to the website.
On March 28, 2005, Something Awful picked up on AGNPH, featuring it on their news-page as an Awful Link of the Day (link). This caused a very large rush of new users, most of them SA Goons looking to just cause problems within the website. While no damage was really done it did give AGNPH a good amount of free promotion, pushing its bandwidth usage to about 300gb/month.
A period of steady constant growth followed after Something Awful's influx of users. Bringing in new artists and authors the page was soon becoming a well known furry archive, especially when linked from Yiffstar, their biggest referrer to date.
Early 2006 brought another problem to AGNPH. Racso (the current host of AGNPH's server) was having financial problems and let DrGamez know soon his generous hosting would have to be ending. Letting the community know of the problem DrGamez advised users save all images and stories they might want, unsure of the future of the website. This of course spiked up the bandwidth usage, causing a flood of users and spiking up the bandwidth usage to its highest peak in 2005. Realizing the site was going to disappear if nothing was done DrGamez realized he would have to pick up the bill. In a very smooth transition he moved AGNPH from Racso's server over to his own. Many users were a bit confused and to this date may not even realize the servers have moved.
The AGNPH of current day is now maintained on the new server by DrGamez, with all of the behind the scenes work such as setting up the IRC and various services around the website being handled by Eevee. With no major plans on the horizon AGNPH shouldn't be looking at many more problems in the near future.
