We will be migrating various frontend services to a set of shiny new servers* over the next several days. This post will be updated as the various stuff is moved.

If you encounter any new issues after the moves, please post about it here.


2020-11-11

- Thumbnails and static content has been (mostly) migrated.

The primary thumbnail servers now have a lot more capacity and all storage is now local, which means they no longer have to fetch any content from backend servers. This simplifies things a lot, and also improves performance.

Full IPv6 support has also been added for this.


2020-11-12

- Redirected all the remaining thumbnail server dependencies.

- Restored failover functionality for the bits that haven't had it since last summer.


2020-11-16

- The RPC/API frontends and failovers have been swapped over. (These are used for AJAX/inline loading requests.)


2020-11-17

- The main EH frontends and failovers have been swapped over.

This completes the migration from the old frontends, but there are still a couple of other services (archiving and the tracker) that will be moved.


2020-11-19

- The new archive servers have gone live.

The new archivers have both HTTPS and IPv6 support, and also have an order of a magnitude more bandwidth available.

Note that previously generated archives will still be served from the old servers for some time.

(While the available bandwidth is much larger, it is also shared with the rest of the frontend services in the new setup, so we may add a restriction that free downloads are not available around the peak traffic hours (at least during weekends) - this is however not currently active.)


2020-11-23

- The new tracker servers are now live.

The new trackers also add IPv6 support both on the network as well as on the tracker software itself, and should (hopefully) comply with the spec in [bittorrent.org] BEP7.

(Update: There were some issues with stats gathering after the update due to some changes in default behavior in new versions of underlying software, this should be fixed now.)

This completes the deployment of the new frontends, at least for now.


2020-11-29

- The old archiver servers have now been fully phased out.


* For the technically minded, there are four new physical servers that run 12 VMs each, with the following specs:

Dual Xeon Gold 5118
192 GB RAM
6 TB SSD storage
36TB HDD storage
10 Gbps uplinks