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AoTM: February Round 1 Winner & Round 2 Voting Open - 12.03.22

AoTM: February Round 1 Winner & Round 2 Voting Open

AoTM February Round 1 Voting has closed and we have a winner!

AoTM February Round 1 Winner: John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band

Congratulations to a*** for their winning pick. 20,000 Bonus Points have been added to your account.

This album will be Freeleech until the next round (FLAC only)

AoTM February Round 2 Voting

Voting is open for ten days and all nominations are Neutral Leech.

AoTM March Nominations are open.

News - 08.03.22

A short bulletin to fill you in with some details following the server move.

We switched on a new server a week ago and are now running on a very recent version of Mysql (8.0.26) and the latest version of PHP (8.1.3). There were a few rough spots where some incompatibilities arose but they were fixed as they were spotted.

From a technical point of view, this is very exciting, as the Percona distribution we now use is much more robust that the very old MariaDB version we were using, and the latest version of PHP tidies up a lot of the worst sins of old PHP. We will be continuing to improve our Gazelle fork with the new features that PHP 8 offers.

Nonetheless, the situation leaves much to be desired. You may have encountered difficulties over the past week when accessing the site. It looks like we rented a lemon. It has spontaneously rebooted three four times, with very few messages to explain what the problem is. The few messages that do get logged (and the fact that the kernel has no time to log anything) leads sheepish and I to conclude that there is a bad harware problem, probably in one of the CPU cores.

When the server reboots, it does not come back into service automatically, as one of us has to log into the server to decrypt the disk in order for the boot to continue. Which means the site can be unreachable for several hours until such time as an admin can log in. Still, we would rather have an encrypted disk and protect the data on it more than anything else.

We are in discussions with the host to and we will switch over to a new ssserver when we are able to. It could be a couple of weeks though. In the meantime, your patience is much appreciated.

Server maintenance - for real this time - 27.02.22

After running into some problems when we were trying to do the last planned maintenance three weeks ago, the new date is scheduled for today, starting around 20:00 UTC.

We are going to move to MySQL 8 and PHP 8.1 which turned up a number of broken assumptions in Gazelle that needed to be fixed in order to make the switch. Spine has been very busy since then fixing (hopefully) all of those. Thanks to everyone on our Beta Team who tested and reported bugs!

If everything goes well the maintenance will last about four hours but may take significantly longer. Don't be worried if the site will be offline for up to 48 hours.

Site and tracker will be offline. IRC will remain online but without hermes.

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AoTM: January Round 1 Winner & Round 2 Voting Open - 15.02.22

AoTM: January Round 1 Winner & Round 2 Voting Open

AoTM January Round 1 Voting has closed and we have a winner!

AoTM January Round 1 Winner: The Pastels - Sittin' Pretty

Congratulations to Mewbacca for their winning pick. 20,000 Bonus Points have been added to your account.

This album will be Freeleech until the next round (FLAC only)

AoTM January Round 2 Voting

Voting is open for nine days and all nominations are Neutral Leech.

AoTM February Nominations are open.

Server Maintenance - 05.02.22

The site and tracker will be offline for maintenance for approximately three hours on Sunday. IRC will remain online but hermes will not be available during the time.