Extended downtime next Tuesday, December 13th

[mark]

Our hosting provider, ServerBeach, will be performing some maintenance on our servers next week. They're going to be unplugging and carrying them across the data center and reinstalling them in a new location. They're doing some reorganization and our rack is one of the ones affected.

The main impact from this is that Dreamwidth will be hard down (no response at all and no maintenance page) from 9AM to 11AM PST (1700 to 1900 UTC) on Tuesday, December 13th. There is a secondary impact in that when we come back up, none of our caches will be warm. The site will be slow for some period of time after it comes back -- up to several hours.

I will post again when we get closer to the outage. As always, we will update our @dreamwidth Twitter account as this happens.

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[marahmarie]

In retrospect, though, there's a simple answer and I didn't think about it until this morning. I shut down Dreamwidth 20 minutes early and I did a backup of the binlogs that had been generated since last night's nightly backup. This guaranteed that if the servers had died, we would have lost nothing -- not a single post or comment.

Thank you so much for doing this, and for letting us know you did it, and for thinking ahead for all of us in time to get everything backed up. That is awesome. :)

Oh chef subcluster 8...

I had to look that one up - turned out it happened before I used LJ. Ouch.