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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: 2) by sjames on Tuesday October 20 2015, @11:24PM

    by sjames (2882) on Tuesday October 20 2015, @11:24PM (#252514) Journal

    Same physical server?

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  • (Score: 2) by NCommander on Wednesday October 21 2015, @12:22AM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Wednesday October 21 2015, @12:22AM (#252535) Homepage Journal

    Probably. Linode doesn't let us see the physical node they're both on, which is a problem when they reboot them.

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