Hey Everybody,

We accepted a small investment last week in deviantART that will help us facilitate expansion in several key areas.

So there's some exciting news!

The first thing that we're going to do is build out an additional co-location site, which is to say we're building a religious monument of nerd perfection. It will serve as our second co-location facility and bring a metric ton of additional hardware resources to the community.

The major positive side effects of this investment in equipment will be a resolution to the sluggishness of the site at peak times. We're also going to be making some much needed additions to the engineering horsepower at deviantART in order to complete various open projects.

Lastly, because I'm sure it will generate some questions, I'd like to correct some erroneous reports about deviantART traffic. MediaMetrics reports wildly conflicting audience metrics to what we see internally. According to Google Analytics, deviantART sees 15 million absolute unique visitors per month. This is closely verified by QuantCast which reports 14 million unique visitors to deviantART per month. We work closely with both of the groups, and do not work closely with MediaMetrics, so trust our answers, not theirs.

Peace,
-- Angelo