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SoylentNews Linode Migrations Completed

posted by martyb on Saturday October 07 2017, @12:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the moving-right-along dept.

martyb writes:

Nearly two months ago, we received notice from Linode (which hosts the servers for SoylentNews) that they would be migrating our servers to a new data center in Dallas, TX. Our systems would gradually be scheduled for migration. We could either accept their scheduled date/time or trigger a manual migration. In theory, this should be a no-worry activity as we have redundancy on almost all of our servers and processes. But in practice, that is not always the case. Rather than take our chances, we were proactive and manually performed migrations as they became possible.

We had a couple hiccups with one server, but with NCommander, TMB, PJ on hand (among others), we were able to get that one straightened out with only limited impact to the site. We also lost access to our IRC server for about 20 minutes when that server was migrated.

So, with that backdrop, I'm pleased to announce that we completed the migration of our last Linode (hydrogen) to the new data center in Dallas this morning! Shoutout to TheMightyBuzzard for tweaking our load balancer to facilitate the migration, and for being on hand had things gone sideways.

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  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Sunday October 08 2017, @02:44PM (2 children)

    by isostatic (365) on Sunday October 08 2017, @02:44PM (#578884) Journal

    Also, VPSCheap uses OpenVZ, which is a slightly more efficient system if you only need Linux, since OpenVZ is not really virtualization but sort of more like a chroot on steroids.

    Sounds like a security nightmare. Is it at least a standard container, or something custom?

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  • (Score: 2) by linuxrocks123 on Monday October 09 2017, @10:16PM (1 child)

    by linuxrocks123 (2557) on Monday October 09 2017, @10:16PM (#579459) Journal

    Everything related to virtualization is a security nightmare.

    I'm not sure, exactly. I know they still need patches to the kernel, but they've been working on getting their patches into the mainline, and also on switching to standard LXC and ditching their own stuff when it makes sense. Some places have even started using standard LXC to do Linux VPSes instead of OpenVZ, but OpenVZ is still more mature at the moment.

    More info: https://openvz.org/Main_Page [openvz.org]

    • (Score: 2) by bryan on Monday October 09 2017, @10:55PM

      by bryan (29) <bryan@pipedot.org> on Monday October 09 2017, @10:55PM (#579484) Homepage Journal

      When I first started using Linode, they were using User Mode Linux [wikipedia.org]. Some years later they migrated to Xen [wikipedia.org]. Their current setup uses KVM [wikipedia.org].

      I'm sure they will switch again if a new virtualization technology comes along that offers advantages over their current setup. Maybe something lightweight like OpenVZ/LXC/Docker/etc...