submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Nath@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

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As I'm sure several people noticed, we had an outage this morning. The cause was the aussie.zone SSL certificate expiring.

That's not supposed to happen, certbot and letsencrypt are supposed to handle that renewal automatically without bothering a human. I'll add some sort of monitor on the certbot log to look for errors and notify me going forward.

It also occurred to me that while my unofficial policy in the event of an outage is to make a post from my aus.social mastodon account, I haven't exactly communicated this to anyone. Nor have I communicated that I'll get a notification pretty quickly if you @ me there.

If the site is down for more than 10 minutes and I haven't made a post on aus.social about it, I probably don't know about the outage. Feel free to ping me on mastodon to bring it to my attention.

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[-] Gnugit@aussie.zone 11 points 1 month ago

I had noticed and spent some time creating a backup account on a new instance that i was thinking about doing anyway due to the possible effect of ID verification (I refuse to upload my ID to the webz).

Thanks for being such a great admin, moderator and host of aussie.zone, you are doing such a great job.

[-] MHLoppy2@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago

Unable to access our zone of aussie, we were all distraught beyond description and unable to feed or bathe ourselves 💔

[-] Nath@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago

I have no intention to help you do either of these things. Maybe possibly feed you in a pinch, but absolutely not the other one.

[-] MHLoppy2@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago

Booo!!

[-] 18107@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago

Thanks for keeping the server running so reliably that this event was actually notable.

[-] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago

Cheers for all your work with the server!

[-] mycatsays@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the update.

I really should get back on Mastodon...

[-] notgold@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

@nath@aussie.zone

Thanks for keeping AZ running and keeping me entertained between bluey episodes.

Out of interest, when outage happened i noticed some sites don't see AZ any more.

https://lemmy-status.org/endpoints/_aussie-zone

https://the-federation.info/platform/73

[-] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure what metrics those sites adopt to determine whether the instance is up or not, but clearly they're in error regarding us being offline. I can't even get the second link to show instances to find us.

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