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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the reboots-are-like-getting-new-shoes dept.

We recently received notifications that Linode, our hosting provider, will be performing "Emergency Security Maintenance" as a result of the recently Disclosed Meltdown and Spectre security issues.

So far, we have been informed of maintenance windows for two of our servers: magnesium and fluorine.

There is a two hour window for these reboots starting on Friday January 12th at 10:00AM UTC. Reboots should take on the order of about 10 minutes per server.

The reboot of magnesium should cause no service disruption as it is one of our redundant front-end servers. The same cannot be said for fluorine as TheMightyBuzzard so succinctly summed it up: "slashd and site payments won't work while fluorine's down".

We have not yet received any information as to when our other systems will be rebooted -- we will keep you advised as we learn more.


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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:33PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday January 11 2018, @09:33PM (#621106) Homepage Journal

    That's just the window when it'll be happening. It should only take a few minutes for the actual reboot. And I'll go in and tweak the load balancer so that all traffic goes to hydrogen before it happens so everyone can still get to and make use of the site though.

    What won't be working during the actual reboot: comment counts will not update, messages will not be delivered, the rss/atom feeds will not update, and we won't be able to find out a payment was processed if one gets made. That's all the relevant stuff I can think of off the top of my head since most of our slashd (run on a schedule) stuff is daily and runs shortly after midnight UTC. Everything that didn't get done while fluorine is rebooting should happen shortly after it comes back up though, including payment processing.

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