Operations

How the production server is kept running, written for whoever is on call when something looks wrong.

• Uptime Monitoring — how we find out the site is down, what the monitor actually checks, and what an alert means.
• How to Reboot — restarting the server from the DreamHost panel or over SSH, and what to check afterwards.

For the bigger failures — a dead or compromised machine — the rebuild runbook lives in the source repository at docs/how_to_recover_from_backup_from_machine_failure.txt. It is kept there rather than here because it references secrets and internal paths.