Re: Emergency Transfer of Application

[email protected] (Scott Baker) Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:39:23 -0800
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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/
>>
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    <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
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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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        cite="mid:[email protected]">
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        <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>
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              <div>Doug Bell</div>
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          <div>1: <a href="https://www.netactuate.com/"
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