I’ll be doing some server maintenance today around 11 AM EST. You will be unable to upload images to fanaticus until the maintenance is finished.

For the technical, I’ll be (finally) migrating the pict-rs data to object storage. I was lazy last fall and simply upgraded the server size (and therefore the volume size) instead of doing the proper thing and migrating. This is bad for two reasons:

1. It’s not scalable – volume storage is limited and requires regular updates to increase the size of the volume. Object storage automatically scales. You pay for what you use and that’s it
2. Our server is way beefier than it needs to be, soley so our volume size can be large enough to store all our images. That means I pay more for server power we just don’t need. I knew this was an issue when I kicked the can down the road last fall but my life got busy and I needed to just buy myself some time.

I’ll be following these docs:

• https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/#user-content-filesystem-to-object-storage-migration

I’m not sure how long the migration will take, I’m guessing a long time considering how large the volume is. With any luck, we’ll be back up and running within the hour.