US cluster is out of beta, doubled capacity 🍔🍔
Our long-awaiting additional hardware for the US cluster arrived yesterday, and after an early morning 🥱 spent wrangling Cilium CNI, I'...
Maintenance window shifting by 12h
Since day #1, ElfHosted has run a 1-hour maintenance window from 10pm-11pm, NZDT, during which we suppress your health alarms, apply ou...
ErsatzTV, Decluttarr arrive in alpha, symlinks migrating
To wrap up our cephless migration, tonight's update will migrate your symlinks from ceph storage to local storage. All your pods will r...
Plex and Aars migrating next
To finish off the cephless migrations we've been undertaking this week, tonight's maintenance window will run the migration of the rema...
Book apps migrating, maintenance 1h earlier
Continuing our migration to a cephless design for the .com cluster, in the next maintenance window our reading-related apps will be qui...
Introducing Channels DVR and ImageMaid
We did the first of our "cephless" storage migrations yesterday, migrating Riven and Gatus. There were a few (predictable) speedbumps, ...
The road to cephless
Yesterday we experienced our third storage outage on the Ceph cluster which provides network storage for the pods in our .com / DE clus...
The Aars are released to FileBrowser
Way back in March 2024, when we started seeing I/O contention on our Ceph network storage, we switched the "heavy hitters" (streamers a...
Hardware transcoding working again
When we consolidated the Germany nodes as "hansels" (contended) and "gretels" (dedicated), I took the opportunity to upgrade the base O...
Introducing Hansel and Gretel
The nodes in our first, primary datacenter (in Germany), have been classed as elves (contended), hobbits, and rangers (dedicated). We m...