Cypher Avenue has become too popular. Seriously. The company that hosts our web server constantly throttles the bandwidth from our site (making pages load EXTREMELY slow for everyone) or they just randomly shut our site down completely, all because we’re getting more traffic to our site than what they (and we) anticipated.
Well over 50,000 people (gay & straight) log on to Cypher Avenue every month, and many of them visit the site multiple times per day. On top of that, Cypher Avenue has quickly become more than just a “Blog”.
We now have growing Social Media features, a dedicated video library page, dozens of original audio podcasts streamed directly from the site, profile pages for each member of the site, a private messaging system for readers to interact with and send photos to one another, the ability for users to insert images/gifs/videos into article comments, a brand new instant chat feature and much, much more…
All that hotness and we have still remained true to ourselves and to our brand…And remember, the site is still run entirely by two masculine gay guys with day jobs, an active social life and not much support/recognition in the gay media community overall (they’re offended by our lack of porn, shade throwing and Beyonce worship).
So now that we’ve outgrown our old place, it’s time to move into a “deluxe apartment in the sky”. We’re packing up, opening up our wallets and moving Cypher Avenue to a new (more expensive) server that will be able to handle the increased site features, traffic and bandwidth.
“Nicca, why you making this announcement instead of just doing it?”
Well, in our transition phase, we’ll have to make the site inaccessible for brief periods of time as we transfer all of the files to the new secure server. So if any regular readers try to log on and find the site shut down, don’t worry…The Gay Mafia can’t claim responsibility.
Nick Delmacy
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This is all pretty amazing progress when we remind ourselves how young CA is.What’s it been,5 months
Exciting!!!
I was shocked to see the Beyoncé picture lol. I was like… What’s going on?! Hahahah but yeah you guys deserve all the success in the world! See what happens when you have an idea and passion behind it it… It has become bigger than anything you thought it would be. #dope
Yes! The new features are much more than any of us ever expected (or probably deserve). We thank you guys for your blood, sweat and sacrifice! Viva celebrate! ” alt=”” title=”” class=”bbcode-image” />
Yea I’m enjoying this site day by day. It’s amazing to see the amount of change that has taken place in such a short time frame. And you can look around and obviously see there is no other site like this one, it is truly unique. A site like this was definitely needed and it is filling a void. Thank you for all the effort you continue to put into this website, I’m looking forward to enjoying all the new features!
I’m glad C/A is becoming more popular. It’s one of the few places that is geared toward masculine black gay men. Aside from the issues regarding sexual orientation, dating, and relationships there is other cool stuff to read about and look at like movies, sci-fi, cars, booze, physical fitness, typical “guy stuff”. Most media aimed at black gay men is filled with stuff I have no interest in like celebrity gossip, “reality TV”, and Beyonce. Cypher Avenue is a breath of fresh air keep it up.
This is great news. I know I tell almost every brother I know about the site and have even noticed some of them have joined. You two are doing good work, good for you