• folekaule@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    It depends. I’ve done it a few different ways:

    • YOLO: especially with thugs like PHP you only affect one page at a time and with low traffic the odds of a problem is small
    • Maintenance page: temporarily show a page. Some servers like IIS have this built in. Otherwise it’s a simple update to httpd conf
    • In a cluster environment, just take the node you’re updating out of rotation, and only update one node at a time.
    • Copy and switch like you suggested. Can be combined with any of the above and is a smart move if upload is slow or can be interrupted, or it’s cumbersome to restore the old files

    Edit: spelling