4w ago

Server Maintenance - Jan 29th and Jan 30th at 9AM PT

Hello everyone!

I'll be taking the site down for two maintenance windows this week to complete our server migration.

Weds Jan 29th - 09:00 - 11:00 PT (12:00 - 14:00 ET)
Thurs Jan 30th - 09:00 - 11:00 PT (12:00 - 14:00 ET)

During the first window I'll be migrating us from OVH to our new dedicated hardware. After this migration there will likely be some temporarily broken images, as it takes approximately 8 hours to resync our object storage from OVH.

This is a major change and despite my testing, may have some unintended side effects. If you run into any problems that aren't just a broken image, please let us know.

The second maintenance window is to migrate our pict-rs database from it's local sled-db into our primary postgres DB. This is a much smaller change but since pict-rs checks every image as it goes through them, it takes about 1.5 hours.

As usual, you can check https://status.lemmy.ca/ for updates.

35 comments

First move complete, went smoothly =)
The broken images and thumbnails should fill in over the next 8-10 hours 🤞
Let me know how performance is for everyone, I expect it to be quite a bit snappier!
- Much faster than I expected!
  Performance already seems fine for me
  Edit: I can scroll as fast as I can on my phone and never have to wait for a post to load, your upgraded server is awesome!
- That was really quick!
- Beautiful work ... thanks for everything
- Didn't even notice. Today's been busier at work. :D
  Sorted by most comments, opened a 400-comment thread. Fast-fast.
- Seems a lot snappier for sure!

Good luck with the server migration!

Second move complete, all done for now!
- Great news. I hope it was relatively non-eventful.
- Beautiful work ... everything purring like a well tuned motor over here
  Thanks!
- I've noticed my profile pic is partially broken.
  The mini-thumbnail beside my name in comments appears fine; but the image in 'about' on my profile is broken. (viewed from Jerboa).
  It opens properly in full-res when you click on the broken image though.
  Haven't tried re-uploading it yet. Just figured I'd report it.
  /edit Broken in the side bar too
  Fixed with a re-upload.
  
  Do you happen to have the broken image url still?

Thank you for the updates🤗
I hope the migration goes well!✊🍀

Damn, not even 20min?
Well done. 👏

so which canadian politician is gunna resign this time?
- 🤞🤞🤞

What's the best way to let you know if we're having issues after the maintenance windows? Any on a different platform if we have issues accessing Lemmy?
Thanks for all the hard work!!
- We're also in the lemmy rooms on matrix, but shadow@fedecan.ca is probably the quickest method to get my attention if you can't even post on Lemmy at all. I really don't expect any issues though.