Archive server maintenance

Iaerah · October 12, 2022 at 5:39 PM Official Post

The Guru Archive server is in urgent need of some TLC, so it will be ocassionally down for the next few hours.

For urgent access, you can download the ZIP files of the archive from my STACK.

- Kevin

Iaerah · October 12, 2022 at 10:33 PM

Fun fact: the reason why the archive is such a hassle to host, it that it's about 1,013,509 files big.

On it's own, it's about 100GB big, but the main issue is the big amount of small files - a Linux server has an amount of files it can handle, and each file uses a "inode".

Since a server can only have so many indoes, it means that cheaper hosts are often out since we have too many files - if a webhost promotes unlimited disk space, they often have a limit on inodes.

Anyhows, this is just an insight I wanted to share while working on the server.

Iaerah · October 12, 2022 at 11:41 PM Official Post

The server is now down until further notice

Iaerah · October 13, 2022 at 8:24 PM Official Post

Just a status update, still working on this. Extracting an archive with this much files takes a LONG WHILE.

Should be fixed today

- Kev

Iaerah · October 13, 2022 at 9:11 PM Official Post

So, the archive is back up again!

If you wondered why this maintenance (which took way too long), was needed: it was mainly that the old server was running on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - which is supported until April 2023, which is slowly coming closer.

It was also not running in the current stack that I prefer using (which contains Caddy), so it was high time to bring this server up to scratch with my other servers.

It's still not running 100%, but it can now be properly used again (with some layout faults, though, in same folders).

It now provides a search bar as well and should be a bit snappier than before.

Iaerah · November 18, 2022 at 11:03 PM Official Post

Another update about maintenance, this time by the webhost. The archive will be unavailable Tuesday, 22 of November 2022, at 2:40 p.m. UTC+1.