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scheduled downtime: November 12 at 8 AM GMT [iocaine, better metrics, and eventually a treat] (awful.systems)
submitted 2 months ago by self@awful.systems to c/servernews@awful.systems
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the instance is going down for a bit at 8 AM GMT on November 12th to finally put us behind iocaine, which should hopefully reduce or eliminate the amount of 503 errors we're seeing (since all of them are scrapers pushing over the instance) and expose some metrics for admins trying to keep track of how our instance is performing

I'm also working on a bit of a treat for our regulars who've been putting up with the 503s for a while. that will probably be announced a bit after the downtime completes.

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[-] self@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

ah, 421 is what iocaine returns when the request isn't garbage but there's no endpoint to handle it, so I might just need to configure an explicit redirect from www.awful.systems to awful.systems in nginx

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

a most wonderful stanza:

  server_name ...;
  rewrite  ^ https://$server_name$request_uri? redirect;

not strictly applicable in this case ofc (it specifically is for https upgrade while keeping all other bits), but I just figured I'd put it here so other people can crib it

(the amount of god-awful regex matching I've seen for that before....)

this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2025
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