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Server Reboots (lithium, sodium, boron) Site Down for ~10 Minutes Starting at 2018-01-18 at 0900 UTC

posted by martyb on Thursday January 18 2018, @02:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the severed-servers dept.

martyb writes:

Linode (our server provider) is continuing with their server reboots to mitigate Meltdown/Spectre. This time, three of our servers are scheduled to be rebooted at the same time: lithium, sodium, and boron.

From TMB's update to our earlier story System Reboots: beryllium reboot successful; lithium, sodium, and boron soon to come [updated]:

[TMB Note]: Sodium is our currently-configured load balancer and we weren't given enough notice to switch to Magnesium (DNS propagation can take a while), so expect ten minutes or less of site downtime. Or temporarily add 23.239.29.31 to your hosts file if ten minutes is more than you can wait.

This reboot is scheduled for: 2018-01-18 at 0900 UTC (0400 EST). That is about 7 hours from the time this story goes 'live'. We anticipate no problems... that the site should resume operations on its own.

A workaround is to temporarily update your hosts file to include:

23.239.29.31  soylentnews.org

Upcoming: We just learned that hydrogen is scheduled for a reboot on 2018-01-19 at 05:00 AM UTC. Since we can get by just fine for a few hours on one web frontend though, no service interruption is anticipated.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:32AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:32AM (#624068)

    Since all of the current replies are spam, figured it would be a good idea to reiterate that most of us appreciate the SN team's dedication. Thank you.

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  • (Score: 2) by martyb on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:11PM

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:11PM (#624342) Journal

    Very much appreciate your comment. Sometimes it DOES feel like a thankless job. It means a lot when someone takes a moment to speak up. Thank You!

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