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Three steps forward, 2 steps back, we should be stable. Nerd stuff: We upgraded our infrastructure, again. We moved from a copper to a fiber backbone. Server links are now up to 25Gbit/second. Everything went smoothly until we started our final tests. It appears that the new switch defaulted ports…
Update: We have moved Guns Save Life to new infrastructure. This new infrastructure should be more stable for many things. We were running on K8S with 2 replicas. This protected the site, but not the database. The database was being hammered. The current infrastructure is more protected at the cost…
Sorry about the site being down for the last few hours. Our cloud provider had a server stop responding. It was enough "up" that it didn't show down from the outside. Our cloud hosting provider is Linode. I hope you can understand just how good they are. My initial contact…
Hello all, John might delete this because it isn't pretty, like his posts. On Wed, Feb 21, the site experienced downtime. The cause was an infrastructure update that caused certain resources to go offline. At no time was there a risk to the contents of the site. The resources (ceph…
