A Note On Thursday's Downtime

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.)

Comments

oh okay

[Anonymous Coward]

oh, I thought some of that shitware they sling got loose and bit them in the ass

Sourceforge Badware risks ?

[nickweller]

Sourceforge is Badware risks .. http://i.imgur.com/Hhtgv0H.png

While you're at it, add some modern features

[the_humeister]

like unicode support and ipv6.

Re:While you're at it, add some modern features

[dmomo]

Unicode, shcmunicode... they're adding REAL features, like social media icons, polls disguised as articles, hawt new barfy web-2-oh skinz, and the sexy removal of the "read more" link. Because BUZZFEED!

At least it wasn't Beta

[arglebargle_xiv]

Could have been far worse...

Re:Less Trolling

[Demonoid-Penguin]

Lately I have noticed quite a fair bit less of the typical trolls.

An increase in numbers has resulted in an increase in their diversity - plus there's so little time when they've so many places to go in their desperate battle for attention. The troll union proposed hot-bedding and time-sharing but, for obvious reason, were unable to get the propositions ratified.

Noted troll think tank UnderTheBridgeWatch, recently published a report predicting that the recent balkanization of troll unions due to a large number of them getting married (the others just want to sleep around) under the new gay marriage laws will further increase the diversity of their appearance. Because unlike humans, trolls of the same gender do produce offspring.

Future of free hosting at Sourceforge?

[decaffeinated]

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.

Re:Future of free hosting at Sourceforge?

[fred911]

I think ever since the bundleware fiasco the revenue is generated by ads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Thank you.

[Etherwalk]

Thank you to the Slashdot team. Bringing systems back up like that is emergency-mode-fun, but a lot of work, and we appreciate it.

Re:NSA backup

[Tablizer]

Isn't NSA world's most famous backup solution?

Yes, but they have to kill you after they restore your data.

Try Chinese gov't instead.

Cause??

[scsirob]

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?

Re:Cause??

[danomac]

Maybe somebody from Dice downloaded something from Sourceforge and installed it on their servers?