[Open-bio-l] [OBF Members] OBF server outage announcement / call for SysAdmin volunteers

[Peter Cock]

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Andy Jenkinson
<andy.jenkinson at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> What's the latest on this?
>

Hi Andy, and everyone else :)

Latest news is:
http://news.open-bio.org/news/2012/11/server-transition-to-aws/

Quote from Jason:
>> Our aging server which has run for 5+ years the OBF sites has
>> finally reached end of its lifespan. We are currently migrating
>> sites to AWS volumes and sites for a temporary period while
>> we decide about how to continue to support these services in
>> the future.  There will be some downtime while the all-volunteer
>> OBF admin team makes time to fix this.
>>
>> Nearly all projects use public source code repositories such as
>> github or sourceforge so no problems with access to the code
>> should be limiting. Mailing lists are still using the old server but
>> will be moved to the AWS site in the next few days and we are
>> working to have little downtime for the lists.  Mediawiki sites are
>> moving in stages and so far Bioperl, Biopython, and the OBF
>> wikis have been migrated.  This news site has also been
>> migrated to AWS and this is the 1st post from it (will it work!?)

(and the post did work)

> What is involved in getting things fixed?
>

Migrating the rest of the sites from the ageing hardware to Amazon
virtual machines. The discussions are on the root-l mailing list (used
for OBF server administration) and a new group on basecamp.com
(partly as a fallback as the mailing lists will need to be moved at
some point and so the root-l list itself won't be continuously
available). See also: http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo

Several people have volunteered (thank you!), but allocating tasks
during the urgent migrations is not straightforward. Things like
keeping an eye on the WordPress install (making sure security
fixes are applied etc) should be easier to share round.

Peter