Hi All,

Needing to do some image migration, so for a short while images will be offline. Cloudflare might cache a few for a bit, but new posts won’t have them.

Quite rare these days I need to do this level of maintenance but hopefully once complete, the site will be a bit speedier and we’ll be in a better position long term.

There’s currently about 400gb of images so this work should help alleviate some pressure on the system.

Thanks

Demigodrick

Edit: Quick calc says this could take over 8 hours :(

Edit 2: 6 hours later it’s 41% done, so my maths is way out. There’s like 10 more hours to go? Sigh.

  • SwizzleStickEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    6 hours laster it’s 41% done, so my maths is way out.

    Epic game of watch the progress bar.

    Somehow, I am sure we will manage :)

    • DemigodrickOPMAEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      I was like oh, I’ll just sleep through this and when I wake up it’ll be done.

      When I saw how little it had done, I became the living embodiment of the “my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined” meme.

      • SwizzleStickEnglish
        2·
        24 hours ago

        Service is running fine otherwise, and the migration is still going. Take the win, it could be worse :)

        A stalled progress bar will send you through all the stages of grief if it locks up for long enough 😬

        • DemigodrickOPMAEnglish
          2·
          18 hours ago

          Thanks - took ages but looks like it worked!

          Took 4 hours and 2 database wipes to get the migration to even start properly last night, but its turned out ok!