Brief Outage - Oct 2, 2022.

[GAD]

Sorry for the unannounced outage. Disk space was critically low and I finally just bit the bullet and upgraded the server.

Old:

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root       157G  140G  9.7G  94% /

New:

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root       315G  140G  160G  47% /

This gives a huge amount of breathing room - but not enough to allow video uploads.


Thanks to all the donations and gold memberships that make stuff like this possible!

 

[SFIV1967]

Are you living in the future?

 

[GAD]

Are you living in the future?

Either I fixed that or I've perfected time travel. Whichever is easier for you to accept.

 

[dwasifar]

315GB is still a very small disk, even if it's an SSD. I have to assume this is a cloud instance, not a physical server, right?

 

[GAD]

315GB is still a very small disk, even if it's an SSD. I have to assume this is a cloud instance, not a physical server, right?

A proper linux server that only serves webpages doesn't need to be huge. I ran this server with 160GB and 8GB RAM for over 10 years.

 

[GGJaguar]

Did I miss the outage? Dang, I missed the outage didn't I?

 

[davismanLV]

Thanks for all you do, Gary. And sorry, like GG, I missed the whole damn thing!!

 

[jp]

Either I fixed that or I've perfected time travel. Whichever is easier for you to accept.

Great Scott! What we need is 1.21 gigawatts!

Thanks for the upgrade, GAD.

 

[dwasifar]

A proper linux server that only serves webpages doesn't need to be huge. I ran this server with 160GB and 8GB RAM for over 10 years.

I'm aware; I run one myself. But I don't know if you can even buy a spinning disk HDD that small anymore. In a casual search, 500GB was the smallest I could find (except for refurbs). Even a 500GB WD Black is only about $30, and I don't think you can buy enterprise drives that small at all. And it doesn't make sense that you would use only 315GB of a larger drive. So I was guessing at explanations why the newly expanded server is still so small, and I came up with three possibilities:

1. It's a cloud instance and you don't want to rent more storage than you need.
2. It's an SSD.
3. The disk contains other partitions not shown in that list, either inside that Linux instance or outside it (e.g. it's a VM).

 

[fronobulax]

1. It's a cloud instance and you don't want to rent more storage than you need.
2. It's an SSD.
3. The disk contains other partitions not shown in that list, either inside that Linux instance or outside it (e.g. it's a VM).
4. The maintainer has been in IT for so long that the update used an inhomogeneous RAID array using drives accumulated over decades of not throwing away obsolete hardware.

 

[GGJaguar]

I think I've got an old 386 desktop in the attic if that will help.

 

[fronobulax]

I think I've got an old 386 desktop in the attic if that will help.

I see your 386 and raise you with a 286 that was warehoused as a hedge against the possibility that I ever wanted to read a 5 1/4 floppy.

 

[dwasifar]

1. It's a cloud instance and you don't want to rent more storage than you need.
2. It's an SSD.
3. The disk contains other partitions not shown in that list, either inside that Linux instance or outside it (e.g. it's a VM).
4. The maintainer has been in IT for so long that the update used an inhomogeneous RAID array using drives accumulated over decades of not throwing away obsolete hardware.

The initial post made reference to donations making the upgrade possible. Therefore I inferred a purchase was made. If the upgrade was achieved with junk from the parts closet, no donations would need to be involved.

 

[walrus]

The initial post made reference to donations making the upgrade possible. If the upgrade was achieved with junk from the parts closet, no donations would need to be involved.

I don't know much about the technology costs, but I do know the "upgrader's" time has a value to us LTGers...

walrus

 

[beinhard]

Thanks for reminding me to renew my support!

beinhard

 

[fronobulax]

The initial post made reference to donations making the upgrade possible. Therefore I inferred a purchase was made. If the upgrade was achieved with junk from the parts closet, no donations would need to be involved.

Gotta have someplace to stick the drives.

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Clearly you're a different type of geek if you've never spent money so you could use a bunch of old stuff that was otherwise laying around.

 

[dwasifar]

Gotta have someplace to stick the drives.

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Do you have personal knowledge of this, or are you guessing at it?

Clearly you're a different type of geek if you've never spent money so you could use a bunch of old stuff that was otherwise laying around.

See, you ARE guessing at that.

I have, but never to use old drives, and particularly not to use old drives in a production environment. That's just asking for catastrophe. Are you really telling us this site runs on rickety old junk?

 

[fronobulax]

Do you have personal knowledge of this, or are you guessing at it?


See, you ARE guessing at that.

I have, but never to use old drives, and particularly not to use old drives in a production environment. That's just asking for catastrophe. Are you really telling us this site runs on rickety old junk?

No. I think one of us is humor challenged.

 

[dwasifar]

No. I think one of us is humor challenged.

Quite possibly.