The wiki maintenance has been started on the Apollo server. Basically, we have two servers: “Apollo” and “Athena”. Apollo hosts the physical mediawiki program files and images; Athena hosts our database, which Apollo calls out to every time someone needs to look up [[Audrey Landers]], [[Tricia Helfer]] or Hot Dog’s edition of [[Nymph]].
Basically, this is the plan:
- Saturday, March 31st. Backup of everything. We are backing up both files on Apollo, and the databases on Athena, so we obviously have backups of everything. Since the wiki is “frozen” from editing, it only makes sense to do it now.
- Sunday, April 1st. (Yes, April Fool’s day. Ironic, isn’t it.) We contact The Planet and tell them that we need a complete format and fresh OS install of RedHat on Apollo, of course they will not install the cPanel application we no longer need. This step depends on The Planet and is effectively out of our hands, but this is a simple process.
- Sunday, April 1st (earliest). Install and configure most recent versions of Apache 2.2 series, Squid (which is optimized for Apache 2.2 anyway, and it never really works well with Apache 1.3, as we’ve discovered), and all critical applications softwares.
- Monday, April 2nd through Wednesday, April 4. Debug, test, and move old Apollo backups of Mediawiki, Mediawiki configuration files, and images (and other config files) to Apollo.
Again, Athena won’t be touched or optimized at the server level, although we will optimize the databases themselves. The content won’t be touched.
The wiki should not be up any later than Wednesday, April 4th. That’s our “deadline date”.
Once we’re done with that, we’ll also launch with more cool features, which we will announce later on the Case Orange blog.
So wait we all. 
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