Site maintenance - short offline time

Alexander Turcic · 08-19-2007, 07:03 AM

During a planned software upgrade MobileRead will be shortly unavailable today.

We plan no more than five minutes for this upgrade.

Alex

Alexander Turcic · 08-19-2007, 07:17 AM

We're up and running again.

Bob Russell · 08-19-2007, 11:15 AM

Those five minutes were tremendously inconvenient, but we'll forgive you!

But seriously, you do an amazing job with the site. Thanks for all the hard work!

JSWolf · 08-19-2007, 11:33 PM

What was it that was upgraded? And I never knew the site was down. I was sleeping during the down time.

Alexander Turcic · 08-20-2007, 04:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

What was it that was upgraded? And I never knew the site was down. I was sleeping during the down time.

That's right; normally we don't have to go down during an upgrade. But this time a kernel upgrade was involved which required an immediate reboot.

Alexander Turcic · 10-07-2007, 05:14 AM

We'll upgrade our kernel again in the next 45 minutes. Sorry for the short notice. Expected downtime: less than 5 minutes.

Alexander Turcic · 10-07-2007, 07:14 AM

Downtime was 10 minutes due to some unexpected event (reminder to oneself: never reboot a system that is currently being backup'ed).

JSWolf · 10-07-2007, 10:15 AM

The update was so fast, I never even noticed it happened. Of course, being asleep at the time probably helped.

Alexander Turcic · 11-11-2007, 09:01 AM

We're preparing for another kernel security update.

When: During the next hour
Expected downtime: less than 5 minutes

Alexander Turcic · 11-11-2007, 09:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

We're preparing for another kernel security update.

When: During the next hour
Expected downtime: less than 5 minutes

Done.

JSWolf · 11-11-2007, 09:19 AM

You had to take the system down just as I was about to read about the planned downtime. HAHAHAHAHA!

Alexander Turcic · 11-11-2007, 09:21 AM

Once we reach the critical mass, we'll consider building a cluster service... then no more downtimes, even during updates

JSWolf · 11-11-2007, 09:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

Once we reach the critical mass, we'll consider building a cluster service... then no more downtimes, even during updates

I just found it funny that I was just about to read about the downtime when the site went down.

08-19-2007, 07:03 AM	#1
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08-19-2007, 07:17 AM	#2
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,163 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	We're up and running again.

08-19-2007, 11:15 AM	#3
Bob Russell Recovering Gadget Addict Posts: 5,381 Karma: 676161 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Device: iPad	Those five minutes were tremendously inconvenient, but we'll forgive you! But seriously, you do an amazing job with the site. Thanks for all the hard work!

08-19-2007, 11:33 PM	#4
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 73,976 Karma: 128903378 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	What was it that was upgraded? And I never knew the site was down. I was sleeping during the down time.

10-07-2007, 05:14 AM	#6
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,163 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	We'll upgrade our kernel again in the next 45 minutes. Sorry for the short notice. Expected downtime: less than 5 minutes.

10-07-2007, 07:14 AM	#7
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,163 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Downtime was 10 minutes due to some unexpected event (reminder to oneself: never reboot a system that is currently being backup'ed).

10-07-2007, 10:15 AM	#8
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 73,976 Karma: 128903378 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	The update was so fast, I never even noticed it happened. Of course, being asleep at the time probably helped.

11-11-2007, 09:01 AM	#9
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,163 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	We're preparing for another kernel security update. When: During the next hour Expected downtime: less than 5 minutes

11-11-2007, 09:19 AM	#11
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 73,976 Karma: 128903378 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	You had to take the system down just as I was about to read about the planned downtime. HAHAHAHAHA!

11-11-2007, 09:21 AM	#12
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,163 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Once we reach the critical mass, we'll consider building a cluster service... then no more downtimes, even during updates