Summary:

* Our main server died
* We're running on a small VM for now
* We will scale to more VMs today
* Some things are broken and cannot be restored without contributed labor

---

Yesterday sometime before 10:30am US/Central, the primary CPAN Testers 
application server died: One of the main disks failed. Since this machine is 
hosted by ByteMark, and since we have no contact with them anymore, there is no 
chance at restoration. As of 19:00 US/Central, I was able to restore operations 
on a medium-sized VM I'm renting from NetActuate[1]. It is less than half the 
capacity of the bare-metal machine that died, so we're still not back to where 
we were.

Scott Baker has procured some VMs from the Open Source Lab at Oregon State 
University[2]. I am going to scale the app to those systems as well in hope 
that the three VMs will handle the load we generate. My guess for that is 
"probably".

But, with ByteMark's servers now completely out, there are parts of the site 
that simply do not function. 

* Our CPAN/BackPAN mirror is gone. I'm working on requirements to see how this 
can be fixed.
* E-mailed test reports have been offline for a while, but now is gone until a 
replacement can be made.
* Large sections of the primary site are still unimplemented

If anybody wants to make a large impact for a little work on some Mojolicious 
sites, we can get things working. Until then, I'm doing what I can with what I 
have.



Doug Bell
[email protected]




1: https://www.netactuate.com/
2: http://osuosl.org/

Reply via email to