[p2pu-dev] Server maintenance

[Chris Ewald]

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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