news.gmane.io is now updated

The old news.gmane.io server was getting a bit long in the tooth, so I’ve spent the last few days transferring the spool to a new, spiffier server. The server has been down most of the day while I did the final setup, but everything should now be back up again — both the Gmane parts (the NNTP mailing list archive) and the Gwene parts (the RSS to NNTP gateway). What made this more urgent than usual is, of course, the current wave of sploits — I’ve sorta kinda kept the old server updated in user land, but I never took the actual time to do kernel updates and stuff, so: That’s not good. So I was just going to update it, but then I discovered that the disk was 92% full, so it was time to move to a new server anyway. (I was really not looking forward to upgrading the OS and rebooting — it’s been so long that the likelihood of something going catastrophically wrong is pretty high.) I rented the new server from Hetzner, too, and you can really see how the hardware shortages from a few years…