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Our maintenance was successfully completed last night and we are now running Devio.us off of a temp server.

This now gives us all of the required servers to begin working on the new backend (and frontend) for Devio.us services.

As noted in a previous post - the original Devio.us server 'wolfman' will be redeployed as a storage server, while the 2 new X4100's will be used for public and premium servers. Our V210 sun box will be utilized as our firewall and central auth server (and possibly some other smaller services).

Stay tuned and we'll post some pics of our new setup!

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During our transition to the new setup, we will need to take down the current wolfman server and redeploy Devio.us onto temporary hardware. As noted in the previous post, our goal is to reuse the current 'wolfman' server as a backend storage server for the rest of the machines.

Due to this, we will be taking 'wolfman' down next Friday (July 8th) at 8:00PM EST. The maintenance window is set for 8:00PM - 12:00AM, however we expect to be done in under 2 hours. Once the maintenance is complete - devio.us will be running off of temporary hardware until the final switch to the new server setup.

Secondly - we will be performing a rudimentary account clean up. Specifically, all accounts that are 6 months+ old and have never logged in, will be purged.

We will post another notice (and some pictures of our new gear) prior to the actual maintenance.

EDIT: We are still on for the maintenance tonight at 8PM EST. See you all on the temp hardware!

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Dear deviants, fellow OpenBSD junkies and wolfman fans,

Over the next several weeks, Devio.us is going to be receiving a major facelift. While we'd love to unveil all of the changes at once, this is probably not going to be possible, as there is quite a lot to do. Without much additional fluff, here is a rough list of everything that is incoming:

1. All existing regular and premium users will be migrated to two new Sun X4100 servers (both amd64)
2. The 'wolfman' server is going to be re-deployed as a backend storage server.
3. We are completely revamping our auth system in order to have a centralized means to manage users between all servers.
4. Mail, MySQL (and PgSQL) will be moved to the backend storage server.
5. A new 'vote' based registration system will be tied into our IRC channel - giving IRC users the ability to approve/deny new registrations.
6. A full site re-design
7. No more tunneled IPv6 - we are going native IPv6!
8. Full domain hosting for premium users (mail administration access included).
9. A possible Sparc64 server for cross-platform testing/programming/port maint.
10. And lastly, we are planning on providing the lower East coast with an OpenBSD mirror!

Naturally, there's quite a lot more stuff going on behind the scenes. Most of these changes require a serious amount of manpower and time and we will do our best to complete all of the above in a timely manner.

During this major transition, there might be some temporary outages (such as the need to take down 'wolfman'), however we will make sure to announce these well prior to the maintenances. We will also be posting some pictures of our new, sexy setup :-)

If you have any questions or want some more in-depth info - feel free to post some comments.

P.S. Before we forget - a major thank you to all of those folks who supported and promoted our sister project - Tunnelr. The service has been running wonderfully with a lot of positive feedback. Wolfman loves you.

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