Zoe: Captain will come up with a plan. Kaylee: That's good. Right? Zoe: Possibly you're not recalling some of his previous plans.

'Safe'


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Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.


Gudanov - Aug 18, 2020 4:45:27 pm PDT #4311 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping

Hmm... looks like migration confuses Postgres. I'll need to manually reset some sequences after migration. Fortunately, that should be easy to do.

I think we need to plan on moving.

The checklist would be like this:

1) Lots of announcing that there will be some downtime and making sure you either know your password or have a valid profile address.

2) Announcing a cut-off time after which posts will not be migrated.

3) In the meantime, I will make sure the new site is ready for migration.

4) After the cut-off time, I can perform the migration and reset postgres sequences.

5.) Once the migration appears successful, announce a shutdown for maintenance. Shut down the new site.

6.) Change the nameservers for the domain over to digital ocean. I don't have the creds to do this.

7.) I can set up DNS on Digital Ocean. Get a certificate. Configure the webserver and application server for the new domain. Then fire it up.

8.) Once the DNS settings propogates when should be in business at [link] (with http redirect to https).

I am very open to a different plan, just putting one out there for a starting point.


Dana - Aug 18, 2020 4:54:27 pm PDT #4312 of 4671
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Thanks again for all the work you've done on this, Gud, and to everyone else helping with the site management.


Gudanov - Aug 18, 2020 5:32:40 pm PDT #4313 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping

I hope people like the new site. I'm sure there will need to be a lot of tweaking and polishing after the move, but it's seemed pretty solid in terms of basic functionality for quite awhile now. The big improvements should be support for mobile and security.


Gudanov - Aug 18, 2020 5:33:50 pm PDT #4314 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping

And user registration will work again :)


Gudanov - Aug 18, 2020 5:40:44 pm PDT #4315 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping

DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04

That's interesting. They said they were going to upgrade to 18.04 quite awhile ago as I recall.


Consuela - Aug 18, 2020 5:44:09 pm PDT #4316 of 4671
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Seconding Dana. Thank you, Gud. You're a ... good guy. :D


Pix - Aug 18, 2020 6:30:08 pm PDT #4317 of 4671
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

So grateful to you, Gud! And to everyone else helping make this happen!


Jessica - Aug 19, 2020 7:06:05 am PDT #4318 of 4671
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

6.) Change the nameservers for the domain over to digital ocean. I don't have the creds to do this.

Who has this? Jesse?


Jesse - Aug 19, 2020 8:38:02 am PDT #4319 of 4671
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I guess so! I have the passwords and whatnot -- just tell me in short sentences what needs doing.


Gudanov - Aug 19, 2020 9:12:21 am PDT #4320 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping

How about planning to do the switch over on Labour-Day weekend?