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

Thu Aug 9 00:15:43 UTC 2012

Hi *,

the blogfarm has been migrated to our new wordpress hoster Pagely. It
took them longer than expected to import our blogs and then we had to
fight some caching issues (in particular on publicdomainreview.org), but
in the end, it seems to be all working.

Site owners: if you experience issues on your blog, please log into it's
control panel at /wp-admin, go to "Setting ==> WP Super Cache" and press
"Click to purge the Varnish cache". If that doesn't help, let Bobby and
me know.

Remember that all passwords have been reset, you will have to aquire a
new one via

  http://okfn.org/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword

FYI: DNS has not yet been switched to the Pagely servers, our old Apache
is currently proxying the Pagely servers. We'll switch DNS once everyone
is happy with the migrated blogs. There won't be a downtime of service
for that.

Kudos to Bobby for putting a lot of good work into this migration!

Regards /nils

On 08/08/2012 04:17 PM, Nils Toedtmann wrote:
> 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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