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

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: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 20 2015, @01:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 20 2015, @01:57AM (#252141)

    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"

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by NCommander on Tuesday October 20 2015, @05:30AM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Tuesday October 20 2015, @05:30AM (#252181) Homepage Journal

    When we ran out of elements we'll switch to fruit.

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  • (Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Tuesday October 20 2015, @09:51AM

    by Dr Spin (5239) on Tuesday October 20 2015, @09:51AM (#252226)

    Clearly using Unobtanium as temporary replacement isn't working well either!

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