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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 NCommander on Sunday November 13 2022, @08:08PM (4 children)

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Sunday November 13 2022, @08:08PM (#1279548) Homepage Journal

    No, we literally use Oracle's MySQL Cluster, although its an older community edition. That's on the overhaul list, but at least it's no longer in pieces of colorful confetti.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by fab23 on Sunday November 13 2022, @09:38PM (2 children)

    by fab23 (6605) Subscriber Badge on Sunday November 13 2022, @09:38PM (#1279565) Homepage

    Other options may be MariaDB Galera Cluster or then go to PostgreSQL (this may be a little bit more headache when doing major upgrades).

    • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Monday November 14 2022, @03:25AM (1 child)

      by RS3 (6367) on Monday November 14 2022, @03:25AM (#1279593)

      Is a cluster necessary?

  • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Monday November 14 2022, @03:20AM

    by RS3 (6367) on Monday November 14 2022, @03:20AM (#1279592)

    What do you have against color? :-}