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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: -1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday May 08 2018, @12:19PM
Bzipitidoo asked, "what's the biggest expense of running the SoylentNews website?" And the answer wasn't the electric. That's amazing, because electric is so important to cyber. Electric makes it run. If the electric goes on and off, on and off, off, on, off it makes big big problems for cyber. You need electric that runs all the time. 100%. And the only electric that runs all the time is COAL & NUCLEAR. Our coal & nuclear are amazingly cheap -- so cheap that people forget about them. And so cheap that they're closing down. We can't let them close down, because it will put our Energy Grid in TOTAL CHAOS. Like the Energy Grid in Puerto Rico. And our cyber industry will go overseas. It'll follow our factories.
Folks, we need a SUBSIDY for coal & nuclear. So they stay in business. So we can have electric all the time. Not just when the sun shines, not just when the wind blows. I asked my FERC to do the subsidy for Grid Reliability and Resiliency -- but they told me "no." Every last one voted "no." Very sad situation. And it would be great if we had new people on the FERC. And there's nothing I can do about that. Although, the Second Amendment people -- maybe they can do something, I don’t know.