The ravens are looking a bit sluggish. Tell Malcolm they need new batteries.
Monday, May 28
Right, Now I Need To Set Up...
Oh. I already did that, like, ten years ago, and it still works?
Huh.
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Saturday, May 26
System Updates
Made good progress on the HTTPS cutover today.
Two main problems:
- We need a wildcard certificate, because the rate limits for free certificates would take decades to secure all the blogs.
- Forms have to be explicitly HTTPS; implicit form actions are HTTP (unencrypted), and browsers don't permit HTTP form actions from an HTTPS page.
I've updated Minx to produce a [http.base] field that you can simply stick in front of any relative path that will automatically update for the HTTPS switch (and also if you change your blog address).
There were a couple of glitches while this was going on, but mostly it was confined to my blog.
Update: DNS changes have propagated, and I've set this blog to always use HTTPS. All forms across all blogs should be updated in the system now to switch to HTTPS as it becomes available (this caused me the most pain).
Will continue testing on this blog before switching everyone else across.
Update 2: Bugger, got one of the DNS updates wrong. Sites will load slowly for the next hour or so because they're waiting for a script to load from an IP that's blocked by our hosting provider (long story). I could try to fix that, but it would take an hour to make and test the changes. Some of the fancy features might not work while we wait for that DNS change to propagate.
Update 3: That's fixed now.
Update 4: Broke mee.im, which was depending on the old mee.nu DNS servers. Fixed that too.
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Will this affect the inserted nbsp in the edit fields for posts?
Posted by: Mauser at Sunday, May 27 2018 07:28 AM (Ix1l6)
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Have you looked at the new LetsEncrypt wildcard support? Auto-renewal is kind of annoying, since it requires a DNS update, but it apparently does work.
(side note: the editor bar seems to be a little broken in Safari at the moment; I tried to add a link, but the "insert" button didn't do anything)
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Sunday, May 27 2018 10:47 AM (tgyIO)
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Yep, I'm setting up wildcard support right now, but to do that I had to switch DNS servers.
I'll take a look at the editor next.
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La la la waiting for DNS changes to propagate.
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Report: not possible to edit post or comment in HTML. Clicking on "<> HTML" icon produces the frame with 3 buttons, but gray middle. The tab becomes non-responsive. This is on Firefox.
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Update: Chrome is the same. This prevents me from posting any blog entires, because I post through a text editor into the HTML window. Not that I was very prolific recently...
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Thanks Pete. I think this is the same basic problem Wonderduck reported in the other thread. I think I know what it is and I'll try to get it fixed today.
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Right, got it. Wasn't exactly what I thought, but once I got a chance to poke at it in the Chome developer console it was pretty obvious.
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Pixy, possible glitch over at The Pond. I'm unable to put either links or pictures into a post using the given tools. Tried on both Firefoxy and Chrome, no dice. The message windows open up, but when you tell it to do the magic, it just sits there like you didn't.
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Right, I think I know what that is, I'll try to get it fixed today.
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Friday, May 18
Glitch In The Matrix
Sorry, the backup script froze the database for a few minutes. It's not supposed to do that, but it did.
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Thursday, May 10
And Now Its Time For Name! That! Moon!
Our earlier game of Name! That! Planet! found a winner perhaps a little too quickly, so this time we're going for something slightly trickier.
Answers should include a stamped, self-addressed envelope and twenty bucks. Or just have at it in the comments. Neatest correct entry wins.
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Saturday, May 05
Zoom Zoom
2000 users registered in 21.079s, avg 10.5ms
20000 friends added in 19.551s, avg 1.0ms
20000 idiots muted in 15.948s, avg 0.8ms
2000 lists added in 3.497s, avg 1.7ms
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2000 channels added in 4.420s, avg 2.2ms
2000 mixes added in 9.542s, avg 4.8ms
2000 messages posted in 15.774s, avg 7.9ms
2000 stacks added in 3.227s, avg 1.6ms
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Doing some refactoring, and running the test suite repeatedly to check that nothing has blown up. (Which it did earlier this evening.) Performance is on a single-core Vultr VPS with 2GB RAM. Production is a 6-core/12-thread Xeon 2620 v2 with 64GB RAM, so throughput will be quite a bit faster.
That's without any caching, too.
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Friday, May 04
The Return Of The Database
Sorry, got impatient while doing the changes and pushed the server too hard broke things. Only broke them a little bit, but once it's broken at all it takes 45 minutes to check the indexes and bring the database back online.
There's something not quite right with the storage on these KVM servers I'm using. I'm probably going to switch back to bare metal servers for the databases. VPSes are fine for apps and files, but databases need consistency.
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Thursday, May 03
The Return Of Recent Comments And Search Thingy
Um, they're back.
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Tuesday, May 01
New Toy: Arale
It's a Xeon E5-2620 v2 with 64GB of RAM and a RAID-6 array of SSDs.
It's very cheap because it's a 2013 system - not quite 5 years old - and they're small SSDs. But it will do nicely to replace a couple of our other servers that are running with single SSDs.
It will be the main server for the new platform. I was worried until the weekend that I'd need more CPU power than that, but the 5x performance gains I got from two days of intense optimisation mean that this little server will run like the wind. In Kansas. In May.
The 64GB RAM is nice too; the other server I got recently only has 16GB, which is adequate but not spacious. I had been considering Digital Ocean because of the ease of use, but it would cost nearly 5x as much if I wanted that much RAM in one place.
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And I have that stupid boot loader problem with this one too. Digital Ocean does not suffer from boot loader problems.
Update: Well, that was weird. Five-year-old hardware but a two-year-old operating system won't boot. But a week-old operating system does.
Well, Ubuntu 18.04 here we go, I guess. While fiddling around I turned it into a RAID-1 for boot and a RAID-5 for storage. I'll probably keep that.
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