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This image above is the server where Nadeshiko has been running for the past year: an Orange Pi with an SSD attached to it. Initially, it worked just fine, back when this whole page was just a prototype with only a few animes and some users from our Spanish community.

Now we have:

• More than 1M unique sentences

• Over 3500 episodes across >200 different animes and j-dramas.

• A total of 3M individual images and audio files, adding up to more than 200GB that we serve through this page.

And with all that, the poor server has reached its limit. The SD card and SSD have already died a few times, causing the page to go down. And serving this from home, with all the electricity and internet fluctuations, doesn't help with stability. Sometimes these outages would last days, and that's where we started to worry about how much longer we could keep this setup going.

But not anymore. We have committed to give Nadeshiko the home it deserves. Nadeshiko now runs on a dedicated cloud server (VPS), which guarantees that the page will be virtually always up. And as an extra benefit, we get a beefier machine that runs the whole search engine at lower latency. Also, all media assets are now hosted and served through Cloudflare CDN, so no matter where you are, audio and images will load fast.

The response from the Japanese learning community has been way beyond what we expected, being mentioned in places like Tatsumoto's guide, the TheMoeWay Discord, and other communities. We are incredibly grateful to everybody who spends their time recommending the page to other fellow Japanese learners. That kind of support is something we want to back up with a service that meets the standards you deserve.

This infrastructure overhaul, together with everything we've built on top of it, is what makes this Nadeshiko 2.0.

Along with migrating to a proper server, we had a backlog of things we always wanted to implement but never had the time to do. This time, we put our ass to work and shipped all of them.