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Fedi Admins of Lemmy, How do you keep your servers up to date without increasing downtime (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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I am honestly kinda curious how exactly you manage your servers and keep them up to date, I feel like there is a linux patch every week or so, which would usually require a reboot. Do you all deploy live patching, how you become aware of critical stuff in your otherwise busy lives, RSS?

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[–] thisisawayoflife 3 points 9 months ago

They should be tested upstream of you, assuming you aren't using customized (eg roll your own) versions of any of the ancillary software (php, pgsql, redis, etc). Generally configs are either merged or not adopted, and you can restrict version upgrades to non major releases, if there's chances of breakages between them (eg moving from pgsql 9 to 10, etc).