What happened to the site? 5xx errors

[Ben]

What happened to the site? I was getting 5xx errors. Just curious.

[hydn]

Hi Ben, sorry about that. The VM ran out of disk space. Also, see:

Explanation of outage + backup restored

The server ran out of disk space (inodes). A backup has been restored from earlier today. (Apr 5th, 10 AM UTC). The forums were offline for about 1 hour. Note: There were a few posts lost due to this. However, I’m upgrading the server’s storage space now to avoid this from happening again. As this is a new addition to the domain, there are a few bugs and learning experiences to be had. Thankfully, there are backups in place which are also now set to backup hourly at least for the first 3 mont…

I have set up more frequent hourly backups going forward.

[Ben]

No worries! I’m really tech minded, and supporting a public site isn’t the easiest thing. Thanks for the transparency.

[hydn]

Thanks! At first docker system prune didn’t work. But then figured it out only after the restore lol.