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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>The Omg Lol Times · Opening a Maintenance Window</title> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS feed" href="/rss.xml"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom feed" href="/atom.xml"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/json" title="JSON feed" href="/feed.json"> <style> @import url('https://static.omg.lol/css/style.css'); @import url('https://static.omg.lol/type/font-chomsky.css'); article { margin-top: 2em; } .articles { text-align: left; } pre code { background: #000 !important; } .byline { font-size: 90%; text-transform: uppercase; margin-right: .4em; } .post-info, .post-tags { text-align: right; } .post-info i:nth-child(2) { margin-left: .75em; } .tag { background: var(--accent); color: var(--background) !important; padding: .3em .4em; margin: .8em 0 0 .4em; border-radius: .5em; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; } hr { border: 0; height: 1px; background: #333; margin: 2em 0; } img { max-width: 100%; } #masthead_left, #masthead_right { font-size: 90%; } #masthead_center a { text-decoration: none; } .video-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; } .video-container iframe, .video-container object, .video-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } .tag:before { font-family: "Font Awesome 6 Pro"; font-weight: bold; content: '\f02b'; padding-right: .25em; } @media only screen and (max-width: 1020px) { #masthead_left, #masthead_right, #line_left, #line_right { display: none !important; } } </style> </head> <body class="dark-mode"> <div class="fixed" style="--width: 80em;"> <main> <div class="flex"> <div class="box transparent basis" style="--basis: 50em;"> <div class="container shadowed gray-1-bg gray-9-fg" style="padding-top: .5em; padding-bottom: 3em;"> <div class="flex" style="text-align: center; margin: 0;"> <div id="masthead_left" class="box basis transparent" style="--basis: 1em; display: flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;"><p style="width: 8em; border: 1px solid #444;">“All the News That’s Omg Lol”</p></div> <div id="masthead_center" class="box basis transparent" style="--basis: 15em; white-space: nowrap;"><p style="white-space: nowrap; text-align: center; font-family: Chomsky; letter-spacing: -.05em; font-size: clamp(1em, 10vw, 4em);"><a href="/">The Omg Lol Times</a></p></div> <div id="masthead_right" class="box basis transparent" style="--basis: 1em; display: flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center;"><p style="width: 8em; line-height: 1.2em;"><strong>Online Edition</strong><br>As if we’d actually use ink for this?</p></div> </div> <div class="flex" style="border-top: 1px solid #777; border-bottom: 1px solid #777; padding: .3em;"> <div id="line_left" class="box basis transparent" style="--basis: 5em; text-align: left;">Vol. 39 of 46</div> <div id="line_center" class="box basis transparent" style="--basis: 20em; text-align: center;">July 24, 2024 3:34 AM UTC</div> <div id="line_right" class="box basis transparent" style="--basis: 5em; text-align: right;">Free</div> </div> <article> <h1 id="content-opening-a-maintenance-window"><a href="#content-opening-a-maintenance-window" class="heading-permalink" aria-hidden="true" title="Permalink"></a>Opening a Maintenance Window</h1> <h2 id="content-or-a-relaxing-way-to-spend-friday-evenings"><a href="#content-or-a-relaxing-way-to-spend-friday-evenings" class="heading-permalink" aria-hidden="true" title="Permalink"></a>Or, a relaxing way to spend Friday evenings</h2> <p>To keep things humming smoothly in the omg.lol datacenter, I’m going to begin performing more routine weekly maintenance on our servers and infrastructure. This will be a vast improvement over omg.lol’s current maintenance process, which is something between “eh, this can probably stay on that version for a little longer” and “I don’t see any smoke, so it can’t be all <em>that</em> bad.”</p> <p>The bulk of the activity during this window will be boring and invisible—you’ll likely never even notice that anything is happening at all. There might also be the occasional service restart, which would only cause a very brief disruption.</p> <p>The window starts at 11 PM Eastern time each Friday (which is 3 AM UTC during daylight saving time and 4 AM UTC otherwise, until someone finally decides that we can stop with the weird biannual time changes) and lasts for three hours. Minor updates and improvements will be made during this time; more major things that carry a higher risk for downtime or disruption will be announced on <a href="http://social.lol/@prami">Mastodon</a> and posted to <a href="https://broke.lol">broke.lol</a> in advance.</p> <p>That’s pretty much it. I’m taking care of the servers and software like a grown-up. 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