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[Update 5: All done. Nuttin but net. --TMB]
[Update 4: As of 20180509 @ 11:55 UTC, beryllium has been successfully rebooted. This leaves hydrogen to be rebooted in just over 13 hours. --martyb]
[Update 3: As of 20180509 @ 0414 UTC, both lithium and sodium appear to have successfully completed their reboots. That leaves beryllium (1hr45m from now) and hydrogen (20h45m from now) to complete their reboots. --martyb]
[Update 2: The second round of reboots went peachy keen as well. Next round starts at 3AM UTC (7 hours from this story's time) with our dev server (lithium). An hour later the load balancer (sodium) that I switched us off of this morning will reboot. Two hours after that the box (beryllium) that hosts the wiki, mail, IRC, and some other lesser-used stuff will get bounced. If you can't stand being disconnected from IRC for a few minutes, add irc2.sylnt.us (6667/6697) to the list of servers for this network. --TMB]
[Update 1: The first scheduled reboot (of fluorine) was successful. The two-hour reboot window for helium starts 1.5 hours from the date/time stamp for this story. Two hours after that marks the commencement of the two-hour reboot window for boron, magnesium, and neon. We do not anticipate any site interruption as a result of these reboots. --martyb]
We have been informed by Linode (on which all of the SoylentNews servers are hosted) that maintenance is required to mitigate against the Spectre (v1 and v2) attacks. As a result, all of our servers will require a reboot. Historically, any given server is down for anywhere from 15-30 minutes. We have redundancies in place for many of our operations, but there may be some unavoidable downtime. We ask your patience and understanding during this process.
The scheduled reboots are:
| Sat | 2018-05-05 1:00:00 AM UTC | fluorine [1] | Production Cluster | Completed |
| Tue | 2018-05-08 1:00:00 AM UTC | helium | Production Cluster | Completed |
| Tue | 2018-05-08 3:00:00 AM UTC | boron | Services Cluster | Completed |
| Tue | 2018-05-08 3:00:00 AM UTC | magnesium | Frontend Proxy | Completed |
| Tue | 2018-05-08 3:00:00 AM UTC | neon | Production Cluster | Completed |
| Wed | 2018-05-09 3:00:00 AM UTC | lithium | Development Cluster | Completed |
| Wed | 2018-05-09 4:00:00 AM UTC | sodium | Frontend Proxy | Completed |
| Wed | 2018-05-09 6:00:00 AM UTC | beryllium [2] | Services Cluster | Completed |
| Thu | 2018-05-10 1:00:00 AM UTC | hydrogen | Production Cluster | Completed |
[1] Unable to process subscriptions or update comment counts or deliver messages until it reboots.
[2] IRC (Internet Relay Chat) server will be unavailable.
(Score: 3, Informative) by martyb on Thursday May 03 2018, @01:43PM (1 child)
Bandwidth is of no concern for the cost of running this site. Counting from the first of this month, our current Linode stats are:
I appreciate the concern, but there are no monetary savings for SoylentNews to reduce page size. I am mindful of bandwidth load to the community... I have a limited bandwidth plan on my internet connection.
Yes, there are some optimizations that could be done, but this is a purely volunteer operation and there are more pressing issues with bug fixing and the like which take priority at the moment.
Also, with respect to minimization of HTML, I'll be the first to concede there are benefits to reducing the amount of whitespace, for example. But, that same whitespace helps tremendously in locating and isolating issues that get reported on the site.
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by rigrig on Thursday May 03 2018, @03:04PM
Not really: unless you are trying to squeeze out the last few bytes, minimizing HTML (or javascript/css) is usually not worth the effort, because everything is compressed for transfer anyway.
No one remembers the singer.