6 hours ago: Back to the new upload server, the replacement has been built and tested, and is on its way to the datacenter. Est 1-2 days for shipping.
9 hours ago: I've ordered a new server to try out some reverse proxying magic. Hopefully it will allow further speed-ups on Galleries, with less servers.
Also for those who don't pay attention on twitter, yesterday a new version of the Doggiebagger went live. This has the ability to feed off other servers than the upload server, meaning that even if the upload server goes down, the Doggiebagger should still be fully usable.
And while we're talking about the upload server, you might have noticed that it's been down a bit lately. This server has in fact never been "stable", but this fall it's mostly gone down while I was awake. This past month however it's been going down several times while I was sleeping, which means it doesn't come back up until I do.
While it would be possible to make the upload system redundant, so you could upload stuff even if it's down, this is kinda complex, and the theory behind the current system is that as long as it doesn't go down too often, no one's going to die if they can't get something uploaded *now*. It's been going down a bit too often for that theory to work, however.
Which brings us to the new upload server. Those of you who have been paying attention know that the process of replacing the current one started around the end of October, and we still don't have a new one up and running. The reasons for that are many, but most importantly the server we eventually ended up with was a dud, even more unstable than the one we already have. We're getting a replacement for this in, hopefully, not too long, but it will still take more time to test the new one, as well as to transfer the thumbnails and image repository. Most likely we're looking at mid to late January, unless there are any problems with the new one as well.
That's it for extended status updates for now. If you're interested in more details and progression updates, you can get that from our twitter feed.
6 hours ago: Back to the new upload server, the replacement has been built and tested, and is on its way to the datacenter. Est 1-2 days for shipping.
