Updating

looks like someone knitted a scarf
then didn’t know when it was finished
hint: next time stop before you get to the eyelashes
By Spencer Kornhaber
Adele in a black gown
No one broke Adele’s heart this time.

Minor downtime tonight due to an Ubuntu upgrade. Perhaps 5 min or so.

image
the white thing on her hand represents the biblical lamb of god
or a bunny
or a mitten

the fucking mexican oroxco have space lasers

There’s nothing quite like a laser than can burn through steel.

dw news feed is down more often than not
thank god for telegram and tiktok and gracie the dog

I am going to be doing an update in a few hours. The site will be down for 30 min or so.

All done. No issues encountered.

The site has had a few brief downtime incidents today. None have lasted more than a minute. I will reboot the server later tonight so expect about 5 minutes of downtime around 11 pm Pacific Time.

Done. Uneventful. Let me know if you’re experiencing problems.

The site is slow again. Not sure what’s up with it. Some update must have slowed it down. I’m going to reboot it again.

Done. Let’s see if this improves. If not, I’ll have to move up my scheduled upgrade, which is not something I’m eager to do but I could do it.

yeah, your bbs is slow

Well, that was unpleasant. Several hours of downtime. I think the problem was on the side of my provider. I did a migration to another data center and now it seems fine. I am now going to voluntarily create some more downtime by grabbing a snapshot of the server and upgrading it to something a bit better. Sorry for the inconvenience. Might as well get all of the downtime out of the way in one shot.

EDIT: I changed my mind. I enabled automatic snapshots and the first will be done in a few hours. I’m going to wait for one or two of those to be done before upgrading just to be safe. I’d really rather not rebuild the server if something goes wrong, and resizing Linux partitions often causes problems so I think it’s best to be a bit cautious.

EDIT2: Things have been super fast for me since the migration.

didnt even notice but glad the site is back up :wink:
thanks for all your effort

What’s going on?

maybe it’s the topic police
maybe they laid on a speed trap

I’m just happy the page hasn’t gone down. Nothing quite like server trouble to ruin your day.

I just mean the site has performed well since the migration and most operations are now fast, Michele.

Awesome! I bet there’s a TikTok for it. I’ll run check.