Search maintenance

[mark]

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.

Comments

[silvan_lady]

Good luck with the upgrade!

[galadhir]

Hope it all goes reasonably smoothly for you :)

[calliopes_pen]

Best of luck with it!

[yourlibrarian]

Sounds great that this is being updated! Hope things go well.

[sharpiefan]

Best of luck with the upgrade! I really love and appreciate the transparency the DW staff show, especially in this day and age, it's a breath of fresh air!

[sario528]

Woo! Upgrades!

[frith]

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!

[violetsugar]

This sounds like a terrific update! 😊 Hoping things go smoothly.

[falkner]

Fingers crossed it all goes well!

[pengilly]

It'll be cool to see what else you may be able to direct the saved funds to. A penny saved is a penny earned, right? Thanks for all y'all do!

[shortcalls]

❤🙏

[lb_lee]

Ooh! Exciting!