Re: Emergency Transfer of Application
[email protected] (Scott Baker) Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:39:23 -0800
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--------------ugzZTmuzuxdp0ZWTzlkFQitk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Doug! You are a superstar my friend. I can confirm that *log.txt *is working now, and so is the API to fetch test results. Magpie is happy again, so that mean's Slaven's stuff is probably also working. What are the next steps? How can we help? I/we/the Perl community really appreciate your hard work getting CPT mostly functional again. -- Scottchiefbaker On 11/23/2025 11:48 AM, Scott Baker wrote: > > 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 >> >> --- >> >> 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/ >> --------------ugzZTmuzuxdp0ZWTzlkFQitk Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> <p>Doug!</p> <p>You are a superstar my friend. <span class="message"><span class="content">I can confirm that <b>log.txt </b>is working now, and so is the API to fetch test results. Magpie is happy again, so that mean's Slaven's stuff is probably also working. What are the next steps? How can we help?</span></span></p> <p>I/we/the Perl community really appreciate your hard work getting CPT mostly functional again.</p> <p>-- Scottchiefbaker</p> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/23/2025 11:48 AM, Scott Baker wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:[email protected]"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <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> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:[email protected]"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <div>Summary:</div> <div><br> </div> <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> <div><br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div>Doug Bell</div> <div><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:[email protected]" moz-do-not-send="true">[email protected]</a></div> <div><br> </div> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br> </div> </div> <div> <div><br> </div> <div>1: <a href="https://www.netactuate.com/" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.netactuate.com/</a></div> <div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">2: </span><a href="http://osuosl.org/" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://osuosl.org/</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </div> </div> <div><br> </div> </blockquote> </blockquote> </body> </html> --------------ugzZTmuzuxdp0ZWTzlkFQitk--