New hardware deployment

[mark]

Hi all!

The new database machines I ordered are now installed and spinning up. They're in the beginning phases of their life, which means I've moved a few test accounts (a few communities and some other random people) and will be watching how they behave over the next day or two to make sure that everything is happy.

The new database cluster has been christened Epsilon Eridani and will soon be the home for all of our users.

You should really not expect to see anything yet, but take this post as fore-warning that sometime soon (I'll post again) I will start moving accounts in earnest. You can expect brief bouts of "read-only mode" when this happens, so if you see that starting to pop up around the site in the next few days -- that's why!

Comments

[dragondancer5150]

Good to know! WELCOME, Epsilon Eridani! Maybe you live long and prosper. */silly*

[subluxate]

Thanks for the heads-up! Very good to know.

[moem]

Ooh. I want to live on Epsilon Eridani! It sounds great.

[jjhunter]

SO EXCITING. :oD

[ashkitty]

The new database cluster has been christened Epsilon Eridani

Pretty sure I wrote a fic set there once. ;)

[dil]

I guess, it's cluster no.5 ;)

[denise]

You've figured out our super secret naming scheme!

[nidira]

XD Keep this up and even my stingy self may have to spring for a paid account.

[83_tauri]

It makes me happy that there's a cluster called Epsilon Eridani :)

[j00j]

Hooray!

[stormy]

I might have popped over to Where am I? and checked to see which cluster I was on after this.

Much excitement for the new server.

[decepticon_mistress]

Thanks for the heads-up!

Thanks! :-)

[babysprite]

mark Thanks for the transparency and for being a first-class systems adminstrator and operator.

denise Hi Ms. D. ^..^~ You're surrounded by Star Trekkies, browncoats and all manner of various nerdities, more than one of which I most certainly am.

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Re: Thanks! :-)

[denise]

pfft, if we'd really wanted to be nerdy, i would've made mark call it "40 Eridani" ;)

[lilacsheep]

Thanks for all the great work you guys do!

[bluiis]

Thanks for the clear communication. You guys are always awesome!

[sharpiefan]

Epsilon Eridani? Neat! Have a random DS9 icon in celebration of this achievement.

(though all my journals/comms are in/on Draconis. :D )

[chainer]

Hmmm. I should Where am I all the accounts of various people in my system just for fun.

[denise]

you can't where-am-i any accounts but your own, alas!

[putzhat]

Aw, fudge. I was hoping it'd be named Raxacoricofallapatorius. :) <3

[azurelunatic]

But that's a planet, not a star! :-P

[someday_i_will]

I'm currently getting all of my email comments bounced back...

[mark]

Thanks for the heads up. I've just made a fix that might have done it. (If this comment posts, it worked...)

[icelightning]

I've already moved to E^2. Awesome.

[feicui]

I hope this is the right place to ask: just noticed the other day that there were discussion about more site themes back in 2009, and was wondering if there are still any plans to make them. Alternatively, will there ever be a way for users to customize their own site skin?

[denise]

That discussion wasn't anything official, just so you know!

Additional site skins fall under the same considerations as the problems with adding options in general, because too many choices can be worse than having no choice at all. We might do a system by which you can change the colors of your site skin in the future, but it's very low priority, and we have a lot of other things we'd like to do first. The best thing to do if you need different colors or different fonts is to change your settings in your browser, or use an extension such as Stylish to make the changes locally.

[ex_mek82]

I checked the where am I/cluster locator thing, and I'm on the new cluster. Cool! =D

[wanted_a_pony]

I feel comforted to know that fen & nerds are in charge. Thanks for the advance warning!


ETA: Eee, I'm already on E.E.! :: preens ::

Could that affect OpenID?

[susanreads]

A few days ago I was on Draconis and now I'm on Epsilon Eridani. Today I'm having a problem with OpenID, which I wasn't having yesterday. Could it be connected? I've had problems with it on the other site before which were at their end, but I haven't seen this message until today:
"This is an OpenID server endpoint, not a human-readable resource. For more information, see http://openid.net/."
The popup box's title bar starts http://www.dreamwidth.org/openid/server?openid.identity= and then there's my handle among a lot of code.

Re: Could that affect OpenID?

[denise]

Is that when you try to log into another site with OpenID?

(I think I know what's wrong there, but everybody who can fix it is in transit right now. Hang tight!)

For things like this

[babysprite]

It is for things like this,

That I have become a paid member.

DW is well worth it.

• They keep up the code base.
• DW is transparent with its user base.
• The DW "front-end" is lynx-friendly.
• There is no advertising.

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For things like this

[babysprite]

It is for things like this,

That I have become a paid member.

DW is well worth it.

• DW keeps up its code base.
• They dilligently maintain their hardware.
• DW is transparent with its user base.
• The DW "front-end" is lynx-friendly.
• There is no advertising.

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MUSIC: Kathleen MacInness - Da Mihi Manum ("Give Me Your Hand") 'Music of the Gaels'

Re: For things like this

[denise]

:)

<3

(DW: where communication via emoticon is perfectly acceptable)