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.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 20 2015, @01:57AM
Physicists hurry to name elements, as soylent's server load increases.
After experiencing phenomenal growth for the past several years, and now reaching a few hundred million unique visitors daily, soylentnews' server farm has expanded from 9 / 114 named elements, to 113 / 114 named elements. Physicists looked on with concern, as soylentnews suggested powering on a 114th server, logically named livermorium. "After the 114 named elements, there are just stupid placeholder names like unununium", explained an a physicist who choose to be called anonymous coward. "And something stupid like 'unununium', just wouldn't do, for a server name"
(Score: 4, Funny) by NCommander on Tuesday October 20 2015, @05:30AM
When we ran out of elements we'll switch to fruit.
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Tuesday October 20 2015, @09:51AM
Clearly using Unobtanium as temporary replacement isn't working well either!
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!