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End Of Maintenance Period - Day 1

posted by NCommander on Sunday November 13 2022, @04:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the that-was-a-lot-of-work dept.

Alright, I've literally been at it for seven hours. Here's what done, here's what needs to done, and if you find something broken, let me know.

  • Upgraded all machines to Ubuntu 22.04 (from 14.04 in most cases)
  • Successfully brought database cluster back up to full service
  • Rebuild web frontend to modern nginx/Ubuntu from very old Gentoo

Here's what's going to happen sometime tonight or tomorrow

  • Outbound SMTP service will be fixed
  • Start fully decommissioning the first set of servers ...

There's likely a lot of things still broken. if you find something broken, leave it in the comments. I'll get to it in the next day. At least we're not on 8 year old software anymore. Current plan after taking care of the above, going to find a good host (probably Fastmail) for editor emails, I do have the backups of everyone inbox should they want it. This has been, very much an exercise in pain. If you want to support me directly: Patreon for recurring, or Ko-fi for one time.

I'll be back in a few hours to work on this more. We raised another $560 USD for charity, and I hope folks had a great time. The next parts I need to just do, so the next stream will likely involve dealing with getting rehash to run in Docker.

~ NCommander

Update - 2022/11/12: DNS resolved, and at least site outbound email should work now

Update - 2022/11/13: Site outbound email is actually working now

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by captain normal on Sunday November 13 2022, @07:43PM (2 children)

    by captain normal (2205) on Sunday November 13 2022, @07:43PM (#1279536)

    You can't because once you start scrolling down, a pop-up that can't be blocked says you have to open a twitter account. That has just appeared in the last week.

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  • (Score: 2) by drussell on Sunday November 13 2022, @08:22PM (1 child)

    by drussell (2678) on Sunday November 13 2022, @08:22PM (#1279552) Journal

    Yeah, some masochist with a twitter account needs to pull that and repost it somewhere... :)