Phone Encyclopedia Filesystem Distribution

We will be distributing parts of the Phone Encyclopedia across multiple servers, starting today.

This will result in parts of the Phone Encyclopedia being offline, in rolling phases, over the next week.

As we’ve warned in the past, do not hard link to files on the Phone Encyclopedia. Only link to Phone Encyclopedia articles themselves. Links to firmware downloads directly will break because of this move.

In other words…
Good Links: http://www.phonenews.com/phones/index.php/Sony_Ericsson_T608
Bad Links: http://www.phonenews.com/phones/vzw/motorola/AMP_E816_X_1.40R_PRIhh91578_MONSTER_09.zip

By linking to article pages, you ensure that downloads will popular across our server network, and that makes everyone feel just swell.

Yes, we know people have been pirating our links, bypassing the article pages… but we’re making this transition to improve the performance of the Encyclopedia as a whole. This transition will ensure that popular downloads do not impact page load times (while also improving download speeds for the files themselves).