Looks like it. Upgrades are being applied from what I know.
Yup. What I don't get is why they don't do a dry run, of the upgrade process, on a cloned test server. Doesn't even have to host all the same content as the main voat server: simply just enough to be useful. It's, like, what every other website in the world does. I don't even remember reddit going down this often, when they'd roll out updates, back in the day.
Reddit was a shitshow of downtime. I ‘member. I think what you’re suggesting is what was done but there were only a couple dozen users testing it
Ummm, you mean like the preview voat site that has been used for testing for a couple years now?
Not really. Because that's the site he works live on. I mean set up a dummy voat, exact clone of live voat. Then run the upgrade script on it.
It's the load, not the upgrades themselves that cause the downtime most likely ... then combined w/ unexpected weirdness you just can't duplicate w/o real-world load as well.
This is probably the case. People trying to access the site while the upgrade is happening, throwing exceptions all over the place.
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