Gregory's ServerCurrently there is an issue on the Masto.host network. I'm investigating and will provide more information as soon as possible.
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So, I was on the phone debugging the problem with OVH and we were able to bring the instance back online. This caused the service to be partially down (because host 1 was still running for anyone that was using that DNS configuration) for a little over an hour. Really sorry about the trouble this might have caused. Traffic grew 10x in one week and it was impossible for me to predict (or afford) to scale for this before it happened. Hope you understand. @mastohost All good from my little server! Thanks for fixing it so quickly. Interest in Mastodon grew so rapidly you have no time to prepare. Go well!   @mastohost no worries, you folks are doing amazing in the circumstances. Keep up the good work and get a break when you can too! @mastohost With the #twittermigration, things are getting ouf of hand for anyone implied in administrating servers. Thanks for the heads up ! @mastohost Iβm on your waiting list and completely understand. Who could have forecast such an influx? Youβre being as responsive and transparent as possible, and thatβs impressive :) @mastohost fyi mentioned you in my latest newsletter https://fosstodon.org/@softinio/109297853373790610 @mastohost Thank you for making it so easy and affordable to start up a small instance. Thanks for your efforts to keep up with the #TwitterMigration.  @mastohost thank you ππΌ @mastohost I have rarely experienced a hoster who works so honestly and transparently. Thank you for your great work! @mastohost Amazed how you still manage to keep everything running with this huge traffic increase, bravo. @mastohost Totally understand. The level of downtime we've had is still almost none over the several years we've been on masto.host. With the week we've had on the network I'd say you're doing great! Keep it up!  @mastohost youβre doing a great job, congratulations on bringing back the service. #hugops π«  @mastohost appreciate all you do! I like to think that most people are very understanding given how and how quickly we have gotten here. |
So, what happened was that one of the web servers (host 2) was struggling and I decided to upgrade it like I did yesterday for (host 1): https://mastodon.social/@mastohost/109292313550726464
Yesterday it was really smooth and the upgrade to the cloud instance only caused 90 seconds of downtime.
Today, everything went wrong:
- the network interface for the private IP changed
- when changing the configuration to the new network interface and doing a network restart, it just stopped responding