Zombie Gauntlet Emerges

The Gauntlet launched over 16 years ago as a destination for metal fans to get album and band news, read exclusive interviews, check out concert photos and more. Over the years, the site has become a beast. We didn't start tagging photos until 2010 so 12 years of photos aren't searchable. Other new technological advancements were sort of applied half-assed to the sections. Aside from the, the database and filesystem looked like the crazy cat lady's house on Hoarders.

Currently the site boasts a 1.2GB database (text only) another 600MB of concert photos and presskit photos, 3 TB of video footage, etc. The database has gotten to bulky and many areas we don't really focus on anymore and they have become stagnant. So today, after 16 years, The Gauntlet's database is going into legacy mode and we are killing the site. In it's place, Zombie Gauntlet will emerge and be slimmer, more focused and easier for me to manage. There will be a lot of changes today and throughout the week and hopefully everything goes smoothly. The new beast has already begun to emerge...see for yourself (you might have caching issues so reload a few times http://www.thegauntlet.com/) The death of the database begins now...see you on the other side.

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Jason Fisher    February 04, 2013