posted by
NCommander
on Friday March 21 2014, @05:45PM
from the 40-minutes-by-the-clock dept.
We're back up and running, with a slightly longer than expected downtime. As part of this maintenance cycle, we've installed new varnish configuration files which *should* hopefully fix the long standing issues with logging in, as well as articles not showing up on the main page.
Furthermore, we've dumped the static page generation used by slash in favor of simply varnishing everything. Now anonymous users are on a 5 minute page cache (so new comments and such will take a bit of time to show up, consistent with the other site), which logged in users can bypass the cache and get live access to articles. A couple of things such as comment count are still dependent on slashd's freshen.pl task, so those don't update in real time (yet).
In other news, we've (finally) got a proper development server up at http://dev.dev.soylentnews.org/, running a copy of the production database where we can stage changes and other various things before deploying here. If you want to see what we're up to before we push it live, check it out. As usual, if we make any large scale changes, we'll announce it BEFORE pushing it here.
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(Score: 1) by stroucki on Friday March 21 2014, @08:57PM
Why not just be honest and call it "beta"?
Fuck beta.
(Score: 2) by neagix on Saturday March 22 2014, @04:14AM
Never! Jump from Alpha to Gamma