[okfn-help] Migration of the OKFN blogfarm to Page.ly on Wednesday; blog issues

Wed Aug 8 14:17:51 UTC 2012

We are putting the blogfarm now into "Read-Only" mode, disabling logins.
We aim to switch over 16:00BST-ish and test.

/n

On 08/03/2012 06:45 PM, Nils Toedtmann wrote:
> Hi *,
> 
> Bobby and i will migrate our Wordpress blog farm (s053.okserver.org aka
> blogfarm.okserver.org aka *.okfn.org) to the dedicated wordpress
> provider Page.ly on
> 
>   Wednesday, August 8th
> 
> starting after 14:00 BST. The blog sites should be available mostly, but
> they will be in read-only mode for some time. Progress of the migration
> will be tracked here
> 
>     http://trac.okfn.org/ticket/1281
> 
> 
> We will reset all passwords during the migration. You might want to
> check your blog profile *now* that it has your correct mail address, so
> you can retrieve a new password afterwards.
> 
> 
> ###
> 
> 
> FYI: We have been fighting a number of issues with our blog farm
> recently. They will hopefully be resolved with the migration, or shortly
> after:
> 
>  * Our database server is suffering from a daily load peak around 17-18h
> BST. This slows down th eblog farm.
> 
>  * Public domain review had gone viral and attracted unprecedented
> amounts of traffic
> 
>  * A security incident has forced us to upgrade and stricten permission
> settings, which had some side effects on functionality.
> 
> 
> We will inform you when the migration is done and the blog farm is in
> production mode again. If you find issues thereafter, let us know, e.g.
> on IRC (#okfn on FreeNode).
> 
> 
> Cheers /nils.
> 
> 

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