I'm in the future. Like hundreds of years in the future. I've been dead for centuries.
Oh, lovely, you're a cheery one aren't you?
Sunday, December 04
We're Back
Well, that was exciting.
We've moved to the new server. Well, two new servers, since the designated new server had weird issues.
The migration was complicated by the old server disappearing for 24 hours just before I was set to start doing this.
But... We're back.
We were actually back for a while earlier (as some people noted) but that was with three weeks of data missing. In the end I was able to recover everything up to the Scheduled Maintenance Window of Doom, and the only person who posted anything after that was me (and a couple of commenters) so that's close enough to everything.
Also, looks like I can stop paying for that backup server, since it's kind of deceased.
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Checked a few hours ago and site was stopped somewhere in late November. Good to see things are mostly back to normal.
Posted by: Lump the Chump at Sunday, December 04 2022 04:15 PM (1WyDN)
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What movie was it where the executive said, after a display of brilliance by some employee "Double his salary." "Sir, we don't pay him." "Well, triple it then!"
Thank you for all your hard work and long hours. If you had a tip jar link, I'd hit it.
Posted by: David Eastman at Sunday, December 04 2022 05:49 PM (D6Mju)
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Hm, I just noticed that Wonderduck's site gives a 502 bad gateway. Perhaps a difference between mee.nu and mu.nu?
Posted by: David Eastman at Sunday, December 04 2022 05:56 PM (D6Mju)
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Yes, I'll need to fix the mu.nu sites separately - I'll get that done tonight.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, December 04 2022 07:33 PM (PiXy!)
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Just waiting for the DNS update to propagate and Wonderduck and the other mu.nu sites should be working.
Good thing I checked - one of the mu.nu DNS servers had migrated datacenters (this is why the server move suddenly became urgent) so if/when the other one did all those sites would have stopped resolving. Fixed that too.
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Wednesday, September 28
Poop
Server took an unscheduled nap.
Again.
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Saturday, September 03
Well, That Just Fills Me With Confidence
We recive complain. If not be resolved after 24H your services will be closed
As if I needed another reason to get off this server.
Looks like the hosting has quietly changed hands again. Yes, there are some crappy sites here on mee.nu - offering free blog hosting will do that - and I need to root them out. I'll likely need to disable signups for a while.
Everything is backed up because I don't trust them at all not to simply switch off the servers. This server co-operated by crashing during the backup.
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Sunday, April 24
Restoree
Finally have a script running to finish restoring all the posts from the backup into the live database after the Big Mess last year when the other datacenter caught fire and everyone had to squeeze onto a single $50 server for three weeks.
It's moving pretty quickly so if your posts from 2012-2016 aren't back yet they should be within the next few hours.
Currently reading Mahoutsukai no Insatsujo / A Witch's Printing Office, in which the protagonist establishes Magiket.
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Monday, January 17
Well, Poop
The site has been fixed.
Redis failed to start after a server problem, and then the virtual server filled up with email alert attempts that weren't going out for some reason.
I have to get us moved.
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Saturday, September 25
Content Not Relevant, Testing Something
I mean, not relevant to this particular post, it is relevant o the world at large and the frauds in charge.
Also, this is literally the objectification of women.
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Besides several thousand years of scupture, painting, and writing, nobody was paying attention to "bodies with vaginas", but who's counting really? I guess "historically" just means whatever that uneducated, boondocks ass thought of while masturbating in a starbucks bathroom after too many pumpkin-spice lattes.
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Wednesday, August 04
Server Problems
This server is crashing almost every day right now.
I have a new server, and I have complete and up-to-date backups on the new server.
What I haven't had so far is any time to configure this system on the new server.
Should happen in the next few days. I pulled about a forty-hour week just between 5PM Friday and 9AM Monday, but that was the last drama from that product launch, and the next launch isn't for, oh, a week at least.
It's not until October that things will get
really crazy.
I did get a raise, and we've hired a bunch of new staff, so it should get less crazy by the end of the year. I just need to survive long enough to see it...
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Thursday, May 20
Google In The Apiary With A Lead Pipe
The server was getting overloaded with crappy requests again, but I couldn't see any difference between the crappy requests overloading the server and the usual crappy requests that only take about 50 milliseconds and cause no problems at all.
Except that we were also getting indexed by Google and the Google bot was tracking links to RSS feeds in places where RSS feeds don't really belong but the server will do its best to fulfil anyway.
So I blocked a couple of those. Not all of them, just a couple.
And the problem was resolved.
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Search is still busted. Works on ai.mee.nu, but not on zaitcev.mee.nu.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Saturday, May 29 2021 03:50 PM (LZ7Bg)
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Yep, I'll unblock that this weekend.
I did it while the main server was down after the datacenter fire, because we needed ever milligram of performance we could get. If I'd figured out this RSS problem at the time I wouldn't have needed to disable search at all.
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Thanks. BTW, my blog sustained a massive data loss. Posts for 2013, 2014, and 2015 are lost. I have backups in text files and should be able to re-upload them (although without an API it means copy-pasting them by hand). Still, I wonder how that happened. This is the second time Mee.nu loses data for me, although the previous time it was just images.
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Pete - those posts are hidden, not lost, part of the emergency performance hacks. They'll be back (with all their comments) this week.
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That is amazing, Pixy. Speaking as an amateur sysadmin, I wish I could look into your kitchen with just one eye, as they say.
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Sunday, April 18
The Prodigal Server Returns
Yes, Akane is back - our shiny Ryzen 3700X, with its 64GB of ECC RAM and enterprise NVMe storage - in a shade under two weeks.
Doing a full offsite backup, followed by software updates, then we can return to something approaching normality.
Meanwhile I'm getting errors on the backup drive I had them swap into the new server at my day job, which is annoying because I'll need to re-take or re-verify 11TB of backups, but nothing is actually down which is refreshing.
Update: Backups of our server are complete. That server is so fricking fast compared to this one. I'd like to replace it with a 5900X but it's already really fast.
Backups of the backups of the work server are ongoing, since there's 60x as much data over there. (11TB vs. 180GB.)
Oh, and the HoloEN Minecraft server is back too.
Update: One of the things that worried me about the main server being down for so long was that I didn't have an up-to-date offsite backup. I did have offsite backups, just nothing less than a month old.
That server is running LXD virtualisation on ZFS. This gives you two ways to do backups:
lxc snapshot which is simple and instantaneous and uses minimal disk space but is stored on the local drivelxc export which gives you a complete portable backup in a single file but by default backs up your everything straight into your root filesystem
So if your container is larger than the available space in your root filesystem, splat.
You can configure it not to do that, but it's not very well documented, and by not very well documented I mean have fun trawling through Stack Overflow, sucker.
Anyway, since right now everyone is on this server and that server is free, I thought I'd try updating the software and configuring proper backups with lxc export.
Tried it on a small container - around 1GB - with pigz (parallelised GZip) compression, and it completed in 15 seconds. Great!
Tried it on the main blog container, which is around 70GB of active data, and so far it's been running for two and a half hours, has used 470GB of temporary space, and hasn't even started writing the backup file yet.
Oh, and it doesn't give you any progress information, not even Microsoft level where the indicator sometimes runs backwards.
And you can't stop a running backup.
This is garbage.
Update: Always use --instance-only to avoid the snapshot explosion, and to cancel a running export, kill the pigz; the backup process will abort cleanly.
Meanwhile I'm watching Kanata building and tuning an array of Minecraft note blocks and redstone delay thingies to play Hololive songs by ear. She doesn't even count, she just goes wapwapwapwapwap on one block after another and it comes out right. Gen 4's own little Beethoven.
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Monday, April 12
Captain's Log, Star Date Whatever The Hell Today Is
Deployed an Nginx instance configured as a caching proxy and it seems to be helping out a lot. Load average has dropped from 40 to - right now - 2. Wait, 10. Wait, 7. It's still bouncing around a but but not getting out of control as it was earlier.
That's a combination of (1) disabling sessions on static files, (2) caching said static files, and (3) people not impatiently hitting F5 when the site is slow to load because the site mostly
isn't slow to load.
I didn't much enjoy this bit, though:
2021/04/12 13:29:43 [emerg] 4954#4954: "proxy_busy_buffers_size" must be less than the size of all "proxy_buffers" minus one buffer in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:66
All I can say is that the trains would collide head-on just outside Albany.
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