Update on the Dreamhack server

[sophie]

Hi all,

As you may know, about 2-3 weeks ago the Dreamhack server died. Since then, mark and I have been working on getting its replacement going, and updating a few things.

It should be ready to go in a few days, and I wanted to make a few notes for when it comes back up:

• Firstly and most importantly, you'll need to re-apply for a Dreamhack if you want one, and you'll be set up as if you were a new user. Any changes that you pushed to GitHub will be available, but any other data you may have had will be gone - apologies for that.


• I do still have email addresses for everybody who had an account when the server went down, and I'll send out a one-time email to everybody when the server is up to point them to this post. After that, the only people who will receive emails about Dreamhacks will be those who have applied for one.


• The address you need to use to log into the server via SSH will be different from the Web address domain. The email you receive when applying for a Dreamhack will state this clearly.


• The new server will have an increased quota. The earlier quota of 500MiB was enough at first, but since then the space taken by a base install of Dreamwidth has risen to 270MiB. In light of this, I've raised the quota to 750MiB.


• You won't need to do a one-off compilation of the stylesheets and JavaScript any more unless you make changes to them - the new-user script will automatically do that for you, and your Dreamhack will have working CSS out of the box.


• Each user will automatically get a test database called "test_dreamhack_<user>", accessible using the same database user and password as the main database. You'll still need to configure it properly yourself for now, but the installer will at least copy the required files to $LJHOME/ext/local/t for you to configure. Later on I'm hoping that it'll be possible to have it configured automatically.


• The official email address to contact me has changed - you should now use my Dreamwidth email address (sophie at dreamwidth dot org). Automated emails will come from this address, so if you had the previous email whitelisted you may want to whitelist this new one instead.

Thanks for your patience with this - there's a lot that's been going on, but the new server should be ready to go very soon! Watch this space. :)

If you have any questions, please leave a comment! I'll answer any questions you might have.

Comments

[srukle]

Thank you for all the hard work and for setting this up so quickly.

[sophie]

It's actually not fully up yet, and I'm actually a little surprised as to how you got an application in! The site's not supposed to be up just yet and I still need to change the application form a little.

I'll take down the new site for now, but do you mind sending me a private message with how you managed to get to it?

[srukle]

It was less clever than you may think. It involves the use a search engine.

[pauamma]

Thanks for the update!

[pauamma]

Any news?

[ninetydegrees]

Thanks for the update and for all your hard work (and Mark's as well :). I have a new style to patch so I'm looking forward to all the improvements!