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Linode Reboots of our Servers Completed [Updated]

posted by martyb on Thursday July 04 2019, @03:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the forewarned-is-forearmed dept.
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Updated (20190704_023935 UTC) Server reboots have completed. I am unaware of any issues from these reboots; please reply here and post to the #dev channel on IRC if anything is amiss. Original story follows with minor updates to mark all servers have been rebooted. --martyb

For those who might not be aware, SoylentNews operations run on servers from Linode. I have recently become aware of their plans to reboot servers:

To complete our mitigations against the recent MDS (ZombieLoad) CPU vulnerability, we will be performing maintenance on a subset of Linode’s host machines. This maintenance will update the underlying infrastructure that Linodes reside on and will not affect the data stored within them.

Here is the schedule for our affected systems:

fluorine (*)2019-06-25 05:00 AM UTC
beryllium (*)2019-06-27 09:00 AM UTC
helium (*)2019-06-28 03:00 AM UTC
boron (*)2019-06-28 04:00 AM UTC
hydrogen (*)2019-07-02 09:00 AM UTC
sodium (*)2019-07-03 02:00 AM UTC

(*) Completed.

Historically, there is a two-hour window for reboots to occur, but it usually takes far less time than that.

We will attempt to minimize any impact on site operations, but want to let the community know what was coming up.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Friday June 28 2019, @02:06AM

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Friday June 28 2019, @02:06AM (#860787)

    or crash them deliberately for instant upgrade: crash two hydrogens, get a helium!

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 28 2019, @02:20AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 28 2019, @02:20AM (#860794)

    Seems to be offline. For a while.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday June 28 2019, @04:40AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 28 2019, @04:40AM (#860822) Journal

      0440 UTC - IRC server still unreachable from downunder.

      --
      https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 28 2019, @04:42AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 28 2019, @04:42AM (#860823)

      IRC server? Seems to be offline.

      Send a notification on the #admin channel.

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 28 2019, @07:03AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 28 2019, @07:03AM (#860853)

        the horse goez INFRONT of the buggy, sir.

  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 04 2019, @04:45AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 04 2019, @04:45AM (#863034)

    EF is still able to shitpost, gotta run Kaspersky AV and use trolls to catch trolls!

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by pTamok on Thursday July 04 2019, @09:23AM

    by pTamok (3042) on Thursday July 04 2019, @09:23AM (#863085)

    Please accept a heartfelt thank you to the volunteers that keep SoylentNews running is such an exemplary fashion.

    I very much appreciate the time and trouble taken to do things right, both on an ethical and technical level. Your commitment to freedom of expression is noteworthy, and I hope very much that it is not abused or taken advantage of in a way that affects you personally, or forces the site to shut down, because I very much appreciate the thoughtful and informative comments that can be found here.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 04 2019, @09:10PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 04 2019, @09:10PM (#863237)

    the page sometimes loads in plain text like websites looked in 1995?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 05 2019, @02:54AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 05 2019, @02:54AM (#863332)

      I like the SN VT100 mode -- green text on black. Easy on the eyes.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 05 2019, @04:50PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 05 2019, @04:50PM (#863531)

        It's not that. The website sometimes loads without the stylesheet or whatever it's called. Plain text.

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