"Can't afford?" This is a website with 10s of millions of page views every month and some 75-100,000 unique visitors a day, according to quantcast. Not trying to start a grumblefest here, but I think it might be time to bite the bullet and make those necessary upgrades. The other highly-trafficked websites somehow do it.
On Mar 30, 7:25 pm, dakarp <[email protected]> wrote: > BGG runs on a shoestring budget, and can't afford the sort of hardware > that would allow for continuous service during maintenance. > > Today there are several things going on. First, one of our MongoDB > (database) servers, sackson, is being replaced with a new system. The > goal was to transfer the database to the new server AND pull the old > system from the rack on the same trip. (BGG has only one rack of > servers, and it is full--any time we install a new server, we have to > remove an old one.) In order to do so, we needed to make a full backup > of the database while the site is down--if it were up, we would be > constantly writing to the database. That full backup alone takes a > long time--a couple of hours, I believe. So we shut down the system > and started the backup before Aldie headed to the server room. > > Another reason for the trip was that one of the hard drives had failed > on our main file server. In order to replace that, we again made a > full backup before shutting it down. That backup took longer than > expected. > > An additional purpose of the trip was to increase the hard drive > capacity in three of our systems. This meant swapping out about 20 > hard drives, and this also apparently did not go as smoothly as we > would like. > > Finally, two additional servers were installed. > > As you can see, there was a lot going on in this maintenance trip. If > we could afford to pay someone to be in charge of our hardware, and if > we could afford more redundancy in our servers, we could certainly do > our maintenance with less downtime. Considering our resources, > though, I think we do OK. > > -Daniel > > On Mar 30, 6:45 pm, Tiago R² <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Same question here. It's been down for almost 5 hours now. > > Any explanation for the downtime? I work with webdevelopment, and > > regular maintenance rarely takes more than an hour, in my experience. > > > On 30 mar, 18:38, crsluggo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Does anyone have a time frame for when BGG will be up again? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down?hl=en.
