[Labs-l] Wikitech.wikimedia.org read-only, possible outage, 2015-02-10 0:00GMT

[Andrew Bogott]

This move is now complete.  Things are working fine as best I can tell, 
but please file a bug or contact me if you see bad behavior.  (But FIRST 
log out and back in, because that bug I already know about.  *sigh*  )

Many thanks to Sean Pringle for support with this move, and the other 
folks on IRC who I roped in at the last minute:  Daniel Zahn, Alex Monk, 
and Bryan Davis.  Without them this might well have been an all-nighter.

-Andrew


On 2/6/15 10:24 AM, Andrew Bogott wrote:
> There were several short wikitech outages last week caused by heavy 
> machine load on the server that (among other things) hosts the site.  
> In an attempt to distribute load a bit more reasonably I'm migrating 
> that web host to new hardware.
>
> The transition should be fairly graceful as the new host is already up 
> and running.  There will be a few interruptions in service, though:
>
> - During the move the new wiki will be read-only.  This should only 
> last about 10 minutes or so during the DNS switch-over.
>
> - After the move there will almost certainly be a series of mishaps 
> involving the labs-controlling aspects of wikitech.  I'll be 
> scrambling to fix them and don't expect to spend more than hour or so; 
> I'll follow up with another email if the interruption is an longer 
> than that.
>
> - As usual, login sessions will probably be broken necessitating a 
> fresh login to wikitech.
>
> This is scheduled for Midnight GMT Tuesday, February 10th.  That's 4PM 
> PST on Monday.