code.dlang.org major outage

Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Feb 23 15:11:24 PST 2017


On Thursday, 23 February 2017 at 22:55:05 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> The virtual server that is running code.dlang.org has frozen 
> about an hour ago and fails to boot further than to the 
> bootloader. Initial attempts to recover from within Grub have 
> failed and it's unclear what the root cause is. I will instead 
> set up a replacement server with the latest backup from 20 
> hours ago as soon as it becomes available.
>
> It's really about time to install a permanent backup server to 
> keep the registry available in such cases. I will try my best 
> to allocate time to make this happen, but I'm severely 
> constrained currently and any helping hand would make a big 
> difference. What needs to be implemented is a mode for the DUB 
> registry [1] that works without the userman database and 
> instead just polls code.dlang.org for changes (may also require 
> some new REST API end points to be able to acquire all needed 
> data).
>
> [1]: https://github.com/dlang/dub-registry/

Thank you for the information.
Not sure if this helps, but if you ever want to failover 
code.dlang.org onto multiple servers  (so that if this happens on 
one of them others can takeover transparently) I can offer an 
IPv6 LXD instance.


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