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from the you-dump-the-data-out,-you-load-the-data-in,-you-do-the-hokey-cokey... dept.
Over the coming days and weeks we will be switching servers from Linode to our own hardware. The first switch will take place tomorrow. This will also require some DNS changes but you just keep using the same URLs that you are using today. Other than that services should look and behave exactly as they do now. There may well be minor disruptions to connections and we ask you to please bear with us if they occur. There will be pauses of a day or more in between each service being switched over, while we continue to monitor that everything is working as expected.
Moving the data from a live server to a new server means that there will be a finite time between making a backup and installing it on the new server. The site will indicate that maintenance is being carried out. That implies that posts made during this interval will be lost. The process will begin around 1600 UTC on Monday 28 October. We will attempt to make the switch over as quickly as possible and there should always be a live server online. If you lose access to the site completely remember that you can still contact us via email ('nickname' [@] soylentnews.org), on IRC, or by shouting VERY loudly.
If your comment is lost please do not believe those in the community who will no doubt claim that comments are being intentionally deleted. They are not (unless you are one of our small number of persistent spammers).
Once each switch is completed I would hope that we can inform you immediately. However, that might not always be possible - everyone has to sleep sometime! Please make any observations regarding problems, or even compliments if the system is responding better than before, in the comments for this Meta. However, our testing so far indicates that the new servers are more responsive than the existing servers but of course they have not yet been placed under quite the same load.
UPDATE: You should all be accessing the new server. Please let us know if you experience any problems. A big thank-you to kolie!.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by pTamok on Monday October 28 2024, @08:34PM (2 children)
So well done, and thank you to all involved for their work in facilitating this.
At some point I shall want to throw some money at SN - when is a good time to do this? Or has the time to start doing that passed?
(Score: 5, Informative) by janrinok on Monday October 28 2024, @08:51PM (1 child)
We have set up a Stripe payment link but have not yet set up Paypal. I don't think we will even try to set up another bitcoin payment system - I don't think it was ever used and it doesn't seem worth the effort.
While I am impressed with your eagerness to give us money, please be patient for another week or two until we get some of the background admin sorted out.
It has taken us the best part of 2 years to get to this stage and I hope that a few more weeks will not make a big difference. We have some money in our coffers and we are good for the immediate future.
This is now YOUR site. Everyone with an active account owns it.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by pTamok on Monday October 28 2024, @10:30PM
I can wait a few more weeks, but don't forget to let us know when the SN coffers are officially open for filling.
I don't know if it is applicable to the New Edition of SN, but people who pay taxes to the USA might find it advantageous to donate stocks and/or mutual funds rather than cash.
Charity Navigator: Donating Stocks [charitynavigator.org]
It might depend on what kind of non-profit we are, and whether the administrative burden for SN's horde of accountant* is too great,
*Deliberately not plural.