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A Note On Thursday's Downtime

Posted by Soulskill on from the slashdotting-ourselves dept.

If you were browsing the site on Thursday, you may have noticed that we went static for a big chunk of the day. A few of you asked what the deal was, so here's quick follow-up. The short version is that a storage fault led to significant filesystem corruption, and we had to restore a massive amount of data from backups. There's a post at the SourceForge blog going into a bit more detail, and describing the steps our Siteops team took (and is still taking) to restore service. (Slashdot and SourceForge share a corporate overlord, as well as a fair bit of infrastructure.)

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  1. While you're at it, add some modern features by the_humeister · · Score: 4, Interesting

    like unicode support and ipv6.

  2. Future of free hosting at Sourceforge? by decaffeinated · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Serious question: Just out of curiosity, who pays the bills for all of the infrastructure that keeps Sourceforge running?

    Hardware isn't free and employees aren't free. I seriously don't understand how Sourceforge has kept the lights on all these years.

    And by the way, I'm a very satisfied user of their services. But I do worry about their future.

  3. Cause?? by scsirob · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's great to see how you responded to the failure and got services resumed pretty quickly. However, I'd rather like to see a follow-up sometime, describing a root cause analysis. With all the clustered, distributed servers and filesystems you use today, such an outage shouldn't be possible, right?

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    To Terminate, or not to Terminate, that's the question - SCSIROB