Re: Emergency Transfer of Application

[email protected] (Scott Baker) Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:48:07 -0800
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Don't worry about "E-mailed test reports". I've been brainstorming how 
we can do that with Magpie and the API it already has. I'll handle that 
piece.

Others are welcome to step in as they can.

-- Scottchiefbaker

On 11/23/2025 7:00 AM, Doug Bell wrote:
> Summary:
>
> * Our main server died
> * We're running on a small VM for now
> * We will scale to more VMs today
> * Some things are broken and cannot be restored without contributed labor
>
> ---
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> Yesterday sometime before 10:30am US/Central, the primary CPAN Testers 
> application server died: One of the main disks failed. Since this 
> machine is hosted by ByteMark, and since we have no contact with them 
> anymore, there is no chance at restoration. As of 19:00 US/Central, I 
> was able to restore operations on a medium-sized VM I'm renting from 
> NetActuate[1]. It is less than half the capacity of the bare-metal 
> machine that died, so we're still not back to where we were.
>
> Scott Baker has procured some VMs from the Open Source Lab at Oregon 
> State University[2]. I am going to scale the app to those systems as 
> well in hope that the three VMs will handle the load we generate. My 
> guess for that is "probably".
>
> But, with ByteMark's servers now completely out, there are parts of 
> the site that simply do not function.
>
> * Our CPAN/BackPAN mirror is gone. I'm working on requirements to see 
> how this can be fixed.
> * E-mailed test reports have been offline for a while, but now is gone 
> until a replacement can be made.
> * Large sections of the primary site are still unimplemented
>
> If anybody wants to make a large impact for a little work on some 
> Mojolicious sites, we can get things working. Until then, I'm doing 
> what I can with what I have.
>
>
>
> Doug Bell
> [email protected]
>
>
>
>
> 1: https://www.netactuate.com/
> 2: http://osuosl.org/
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    <p>Don't worry about "E-mailed test reports". I've been
      brainstorming how we can do that with Magpie and the API it
      already has. I'll handle that piece.</p>
    <p>Others are welcome to step in as they can.</p>
    <p>-- Scottchiefbaker</p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/23/2025 7:00 AM, Doug Bell wrote:<br>
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      <div>Summary:</div>
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      <div>* Our main server died</div>
      <div>* We're running on a small VM for now</div>
      <div>* We will scale to more VMs today</div>
      <div>* Some things are broken and cannot be restored without
        contributed labor</div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>---</div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      Yesterday sometime before 10:30am US/Central, the primary CPAN
      Testers application server died: One of the main disks failed.
      Since this machine is hosted by ByteMark, and since we have no
      contact with them anymore, there is no chance at restoration. As
      of 19:00 US/Central, I was able to restore operations on a
      medium-sized VM I'm renting from NetActuate[1]. It is less than
      half the capacity of the bare-metal machine that died, so we're
      still not back to where we were.
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>Scott Baker has procured some VMs from the Open Source Lab at
        Oregon State University[2]. I am going to scale the app to those
        systems as well in hope that the three VMs will handle the load
        we generate. My guess for that is "probably".</div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>But, with ByteMark's servers now completely out, there are
        parts of the site that simply do not function. </div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>* Our CPAN/BackPAN mirror is gone. I'm working on
        requirements to see how this can be fixed.</div>
      <div>* E-mailed test reports have been offline for a while, but
        now is gone until a replacement can be made.</div>
      <div>* Large sections of the primary site are still unimplemented</div>
      <div><br>
      </div>
      <div>If anybody wants to make a large impact for a little work on
        some Mojolicious sites, we can get things working. Until then,
        I'm doing what I can with what I have.</div>
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            <div>Doug Bell</div>
            <div><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></div>
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        <div>1: <a href="https://www.netactuate.com/"
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            class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://osuosl.org/</a><br
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