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[Update: as of 20180603_135454 UTC, all 4 server upgrades have completed and all servers should be running normally. --martyb]
Our server provider, Linode, has made available a free upgrade for our servers. Generally, it's a storage upgrade and sometimes a bandwidth upgrade, too. We use only the tiniest fraction of our bandwidth allocation each month (something like < 1%), but the extra storage IS useful.
We (read: The Mighty Buzzard) have already taken 4 of our servers out of rotation this morning. We anticipate no community-visible interruptions of service as a result of these upgrades.
So far, migrations of sodium, hydrogen, and lithium have completed. Migration of neon has started and should complete within the next 10 minutes or so.
Migrations of the remaining servers may cause some community-visible effects. We will provide advance notice before we perform those upgrades. Very tentatively planned for Thursday.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday June 03 2018, @03:55PM (1 child)
Yeah but they do it in style, for no downtime. Ya gotta hand it to them, they treat their servers like Jew-bank servers. 100% uptime.
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Sunday June 03 2018, @03:59PM
True. Good to see you, btw. Looking forward to more stories in your journal.
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