[p2pu-dev] Server maintenance

[Jos Flores]

I agree with Chris about the upgrade; if it's still getting security
updates and you have the versions of the packages that you want to
use, what's the use of upgrading?

Also, with regards to downtime, it is not really all that bad to be
down for scheduled maintenance, as long as users are notified in
advance. Shouldn't be much of a problem.

Isn't badges closed for modifications? or was that the idea a couple
of weeks/months ago? If so, it could be installed somewhere else with
a copy of the DB and it wouldn't even need to by sync'ed, right?

is pad running from an old etherpad or etherpad-lite?

cheers,
Jose

On 21 August 2012 22:15, Chris Ewald <chris at p2pu.org> wrote:
> Dirk,
>
> I guess we need to keep badges.p2pu with lernanta since they share the db,
> or at least on a private network together.
>
> Also, if we are setting up a new production and staging server for lernanta,
> let's use the chef script I wrote!
>
> Is there a specific reason we want to upgrade to the new ubuntu? Generally,
> I'm generally of the opinion that you wait as long as possible before
> upgrading if your current setup works. I believe ubuntu 11 is still getting
> security updates.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Dirk Uys <dirk at p2pu.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> Tidying up the server that hosts p2pu.org made itself a priority over
>> the last few weeks. We've had several spells of downtime that's not
>> very good.
>>
>> The hosting situation is as follows:
>>
>> p2pu.org ( linode with 4 gig ram )
>> =======
>> - runs p2pu.org
>> - runs archive.p2pu.org
>> - runs badges.p2pu.org
>>
>> dev.p2pu.org ( linode with 1 gig ram )
>> ==========
>> - runs pad.p2pu.org
>> - runs alpha.p2pu.org
>>
>> stats.p2pu.org (linode with 512 mb ram)
>> ===========
>> - runs statsd
>>
>> Shared dreamhost account
>> =====================
>> - runs info.p2pu.org
>>
>> We need to make the following changes to the server running p2pu.org:
>> - upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 server
>> - move everything except Lernanta to another server or shared hosting
>> - retire or move badges.p2pu.org
>>
>> We also need a staging server with the same setup as p2pu.org
>> - setup a staging server that is a less beefy setup of p2pu.org (or
>> better yet, a staging server we can run on heruko)
>> - move pad.p2pu.org to the server running info.p2pu.org?
>>
>> I'm starting by moving archive.p2pu.org to shared hosting (although
>> the 2.4 gig db is a little inconvenient). Because of the way the
>> hosting is setup I cannot test it before DNS redirects me to their IP,
>> but I'll sort something out.
>>
>> After that I would like to build a whole machine running lernanta and
>> then switch to that once I've finished testing it thoroughly. What's
>> the easiest way that we can do that on linode without having down
>> time?
>>
>> I'm also not completely sure what to do about badges.p2pu.org. As far
>> as I know Lernanta reads some data directly from the database used by
>> badges.p2pu.org, but I'm not sure if any badges points to
>> badges.p2pu.org for evidence? Does anyone else maybe know offhand?
>>
>> Suggestions and input will be appreciated
>>
>> Cheers
>> Dirk
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