Is it in a data centre or someone’s house? If the latter, would they let a stranger in?
Surely they would need a backup and replicate db to so in case of hardware failure they switch over.
Sounds like they could improve their setup.
Comment on Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed.
souperk@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Wondering if a volunteer could go to the physical location necessary to restore service. If it’s in Athens Greece, I can make the trip.
IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Kris@feddit.org 1 month ago
Slrpnk.net admin here.
The failure seems to have been in the main firewall, if it had been the server itself we could have easily restored it on another server from the backups on another machine. But as it stands, remote access is entirely cut off.
An off-site backup would have been nice of course, but due to the costs involved in running an Lemmy instance of that size on a rented server, it would have not been a great option either.
I have plans to add a KVM to the main firewall via a secondary connection, but even that might have not helped in this case. I’ll know more when I have physical access again.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
I’ve done a lot of SysAdmin and DCOps stuff in the past so, thought I’d give you some plausible suggestions (haven’t dug deep into Lemmy DB stuff and DNS/Federation of the stack, so not sure all is practical).
Scenario 1 - Preserve and merge when access is restored
Setup
- Spin up two VMs/VPS (or one that has enough grunt for two Lemmy servers). Call them
robak.slrpnk.netandslrpnk.netand point DNS appropriately. - Pull federated content from other instances and place it on robak, set as read-only.
- Sync important comms to (new) slrpnk.net without content.
- Allow users to sign up, vetting as possible (all mods). Keep a list of those that are vetted (call it vetted.list). Inform all users that any non-vetted users will have their content dropped when access is restored.
Merge!
- Once access is restored, ensure that (old) slrpnk.net is set to read-only.
- Schedule a maintenance window (announce more time than you are likely to need).
- During the maintenance window, put (new) slrpnk.net into R/O, or just block external access.
- Query the db on (old) slrpnk.net for all users.
- Subtract the vetted users from vetted.list from the list.
- Drop all records from the resulting list of non-vetted users from (new) slrpnk.net.
- Insert the records from vetted and new users (those without conflicts) into the DB on (old) slrpnk.net.
- Validate that everything is working
- Cut over DNS and spin down the new VMs/VPS.
Scenario 2 - Server is in DC or Admin able to facilitate access
- Get a db dump/backup.
- Spin up temporary slrpnk.net on a VM/VPS.
- Use backup of temporary server to restore data to original, when possible.
- Spin up two VMs/VPS (or one that has enough grunt for two Lemmy servers). Call them
sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 1 month ago
Is it run out of a private residence? How could it happen if it’s in a real data center…?
Kris@feddit.org 1 month ago
It is run from a private residence in the DIY punk spririt (and this also allows us to run of a local solar PV system), but more or less the same would happen if you rent rack-space in a “real” data-center. Only if you rent a managed server or VPS someone else will be responsible to fix such issue and this comes at a significantly higher cost at the scale we operate at (slrpnk is part of a bigger project that also hosts other services).
IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Appreciate the answer and the detail. Good luck getting it all resolved.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Probably quite expensive, and when doing something as a hobby it’s often hard to get the funds.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 month ago
Off topic, but in Portugal was the first time me, a Central European, ever ate a ripe Papaya. Yum! Thanks to the Azores. The shit you get in the supermarkets round here is useless. Same for mangoes, usually.
pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
You are in luck then, because both are climacteric fruits, meaning they continue to ripe after being harvested, due to producing ethylene gas that triggers the ripening
Throw them in a bag and let them rest at room temp. If you want to speed up the process, add a ripe banana or apple (or other ripe climacteric fruits)
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 month ago
The taste just isn’t the same.
pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
You might have eaten a different cultivar than those exported. In that case, I agree, there are so many different varieties that we never get to taste, supermarkets usually only have 1 or 2 different types