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Mark Smith ([staff profile] mark) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance2026-04-22 09:19 am
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Search maintenance

Happy Wednesday!

I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!

Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!

Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.

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[personal profile] frith 2026-04-22 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Cool beans! Just in time for Three Weeks for Dreamwidth too (starting this Saturday). I wonder if "cruft" fills up twenty-year-old hard disk drives as well. So, "instance", "machine"... sounds like it's a hardware issue. Thanks for keeping Dreamwidth sparkly!
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