Brief maintenance Tuesday night (PDT)

[mark]

One of our servers suffered a hard drive failure a few days ago. Normally this doesn't matter and you'd never notice, but this happens to be our currently active load balancer. This is the machine that all of our traffic goes through.

We need to do a failover to the secondary load balancer, but doing that will cause the site to blip for a minute or two while things cycle and get back up to speed. But since this is a non-routine maintenance (we don't do failovers very often, this will be the first one in 2010) I am scheduling a maintenance window just in case things go sour. :-)

The window is scheduled for 9:00 PM (PDT) on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010. This is 0400 UTC on Wednesday morning for those of you who use a more civilized way of thinking about time.

As always, we will update this community and Twitter with updates as we go. Thanks!

Comments

[sophie]

I think most of the people who would have gone to DW are probably over here right now, to be honest. There have been so many fails that it's hard to imagine why people would want to stay except for other people being there, but apparently some people do actually like it.

[meredyth]

It's hard to pick up entire social groups and move them - especially when there's communities involved as well, so I can see why it's been hard for people to migrate when their interests are so entrenched and diversified at LJ - after all, it was there first. I know it's been hard for me, for all good intentions. I think DW are doing a wonderful job of trying to create a 'better' version of that style of blog, and I commend them for it.

However, aside from the FB/T fail (which LJ are getting nicely hammered over on the announcement post right now) - I've heard that they've also, without warning, disabled the '/' symbol in tags. Given that most fandom journals and communities use that symbol for character listings for nearly all their posts - well, you can imagine the angst right now.

As one commenter said 'if I were a conspiracy theorist ...' *g*

I'll just keep offering encouragement and invite codes - maybe the movement will finally get the kick start it needed. Or maybe LJ will do one of its famous backflips, say sorry a lot, offer some free gizmo, and ennui and habit will rule. Who knows? :D

[sophie]

I've heard that they've also, without warning, disabled the '/' symbol in tags.

Oh, so that's what was meant when I heard someone say "Slash doesn't work anymore." I didn't understand that; thanks for explaining it.

But yeah, if it's true, that's really rather stupid of LJ. Honestly, they don't know their userbase at all.