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Ongoing Site Server Reboot Schedule [updated]

posted by martyb on Tuesday October 20 2015, @11:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the wish-us-luck! dept.

martyb writes:

Hello fellow Soylentils!

[Update:] We survived all three days of reboots without major issues. Many thanks to all who prepped the systems, prodded things along, and were on standby to deal with any unforeseen issues!

We were informed by Linode (our hosting provider) that they needed to perform some maintenance on their servers. This forces a reboot of our virtual servers which may cause the site (and other services) to be temporarily unavailable.

Here is the three-day reboot schedule along with what runs on each server:

Status Day Date Time Server Affects
Done Tues 2015-10-20 0200 UTC boron DNS, Hesoid, Kerberos, Staff Slash
Done Tues 2015-10-20 0500 UTC beryllium IRC, MySQL, Postfix, Mailman, Yourls
Done Wed 2015-10-21 0500 UTC sodium Primary Load Balancer
Done Wed 2015-10-21 0500 UTC magnesium Backup Load Balancer
Done Wed 2015-10-21 0700 UTC neon Production Back End, MySQL NDB cluster
Done Thu 2015-10-22 0200 UTC hydrogen Production Front End, Varnish, MySQL, Apache, Sphinx
Done Thu 2015-10-22 0500 UTC helium Production Back End, MySQL NDB, DNS, Hesoid, Kerberos
Done Thu 2015-10-22 0900 UTC fluorine Production Front End, slashd, Varnish, MySQL, Apache, ipnd
Done Thu 2015-10-22 1000 UTC lithium Development Server, slashd, Varnish, MySQL, Apache

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding as we try and get things up and running following each reboot.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by maxwell demon on Monday October 19 2015, @07:13PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Monday October 19 2015, @07:13PM (#251952) Journal

    and nothing bad happened.

    Say you. But the moment you typed that word, a freak wormhole opened up in the fabric of the space-time continuum and carried thi words far far back in time across almost infinite reaches of space to a distant Galaxy where strange and warlike beings were poised on the brink of frightful interstellar battle.
    The two opposing leaders were meeting for the last time.

    A dreadful silence fell across the conference table as the commander of the Vl'Hurgs, resplendent in his black jewelled battle shorts, gazed levelly at the the G'Gugvuntt leader squatting opposite him in a cloud of green sweet-smelling steam, and, with a million sleek and horribly beweaponed star cruisers poised to unleash electric death at his single word of command, challenged the vile creature to take back what it had said about his mother.

    The creature stirred in his sickly broiling vapour, and at that very moment the word naming that other site drifted across the conference table.

    Unfortunately, in the Vl'Hurg tongue this was the most dreadful insult imaginable, and there was nothing for it but to wage terrible war for centuries.

    Congratulations, you started an interstellar war.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 19 2015, @08:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 19 2015, @08:36PM (#252015)

    Ha! I had a 6 hour drive last Thursday and listened to the original radio play version of HHGTTG. Hadn't heard it in years, still very good! A friend digitized and de-noised my original set (12 half-hour episodes), which I originally taped off the local NPR FM station (in USA).

    Note that this is different/better than the commonly available radio play which was remade at some point. We suspect (but don't know for sure) that the original version contains material/music that is (C) by others, which the BBC didn't want to license for public sale...

    • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Monday October 19 2015, @09:48PM

      by wonkey_monkey (279) on Monday October 19 2015, @09:48PM (#252068) Homepage

      Note that this is different/better than the commonly available radio play which was remade at some point.

      It wasn't remade, as far as I can ascertain, but bits of episode three were cut because Marvin hums/sings copyrighted tunes(!). Various releases have had the opening theme replaced with a re-recording, and/or been otherwise remastered, but I can't see that they've ever been back and remade any of it.

      Also the original commercial releases had their pitch altered slightly by mistake.

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