<![CDATA[Forum Server Work - Might be some downtime today (May 2, 2026)]]>I'm feeling a bit frisky and may attempt some server upgrades for forums today. Could be some downtime while upgrading.

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/4312/forum-server-work-might-be-some-downtime-today-may-2-2026RSS for NodeSun, 03 May 2026 09:56:14 GMTSat, 02 May 2026 18:18:49 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Forum Server Work - Might be some downtime today (May 2, 2026) on Sun, 03 May 2026 02:05:24 GMT]]>Updated the backup! We'll keep a 7 day window of rolling backups for the database (backup each day, remove backups older than 7 days), and we'll keep a single backup of the user-uploaded content (currently sitting at 14GB)

Also made a robustness fix/patch with the docker config just now.

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/77083https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/77083Sun, 03 May 2026 02:05:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Forum Server Work - Might be some downtime today (May 2, 2026) on Sun, 03 May 2026 00:54:54 GMT]]>@LaFayette

So saved games aren't backed up then ?

]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/77082https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/77082Sun, 03 May 2026 00:54:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Forum Server Work - Might be some downtime today (May 2, 2026) on Sun, 03 May 2026 00:43:18 GMT]]>I also configured a manual database export to backup the forums information on a nightly basis.

I disabled the linode server backup feature, that costs $2.50

Trade-off:

  • the user uploaded content is no longer backed up.
]]>https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/77081https://forums.triplea-game.org/post/77081Sun, 03 May 2026 00:43:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Forum Server Work - Might be some downtime today (May 2, 2026) on Sat, 02 May 2026 22:23:35 GMT]]>Okay, that was frisky, but now done! The latest L&F looks a bit different..

Upgrades:

  • upgraded OS from Ubuntu 20.04 to 24.04
  • upgraded Forums Nodebb from v1.16.1 to v4.11.2.

The new forums is no managed via automation! Some instructions at: https://github.com/triplea-game/infrastructure/blob/main/docs/forums.md

Using the automation, I was able to very easily upgrade from 4.10 to 4.11, a very good sign going forward.

Worthy of a mention, the NodeBB and MongoDB behind the forums are both running on docker containers. That will help up us patch and upgrade the OS, before we had to make sure that the OS and NodeBB+MongoDB stayed compatible. Now the two can be upgraded independently.

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