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Maintenance

Migrating to a different host

Dec 28, 2023 at 11:00pm UTC  –  Dec 29, 2023 at 12:55am UTC
Affected services
lounge.town
Lounge.town APIv2

Resolved
Dec 29, 2023 at 12:55am UTC

Ok, let's consider this maintenance done. Some cached media attachments are still missing, and it will take a while for them to be re-downloaded and re-cached. Everything else appears to work correctly.

Updated
Dec 29, 2023 at 12:35am UTC

Still working out missing/cached media attachments. These are for avatars/headers and the media posted by other people. The cleanup and re-caching this stuff takes a while.

Other than that, some quirks around the Streaming API remain, but they shouldn't be a concern.

On track to finish within 20 minutes.

Updated
Dec 28, 2023 at 11:57pm UTC

So far, so good.

DB restore is progressing nicely.

Performing some extra maintenance tasks (removing orphaned cached media, generating feeds, etc).

The site is mostly usable at this point, although there's still a bunch of missing avatars/media. Working on this!

Updated
Dec 28, 2023 at 11:34pm UTC

Snapshot of the current state of Lounge.town has been created successfully.

DB is being restored to the new host, this process could take up to an hour (probably, less)

The site https://lounge.town may be up at this point, but it's not fully functional yet.

Updated
Dec 28, 2023 at 11:07pm UTC

DB dump was successful. Now making backup copies of the DB (will remove them after the migration).

Stopping current server and making a snapshot of it: I'll use this snapshot to recover the pre-maintenance state if things go wrong.

Updated
Dec 28, 2023 at 11:01pm UTC

Dumping current DB to restore it on the new host.

Created
Dec 28, 2023 at 11:00pm UTC

During this maintenance, Lounge.town will be unavailable. After the maintenance is complete, you may receive a few delayed notifications, but aside from this, it should all work just as before.