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Implement Instance Scheduler to upgrade WCA Live servers on weekends
Per "Suggested WCA Live Infrastructure Plan: July 2022", I believe we can go ahead with implementing an automated upgrade/downgrade of the WCA Live AWS instance for weekends.
We will use this service: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/instance-scheduler/
And follow this schedule:
- Upgrade: 23:59 UTC on Friday
- Downgrade: 06:00 UTC on Monday (this gives time for PST competitions running late to wind down)
@FinnIckler assigning this to you as you seem best-placed to implement. Please advise if you don't have capacity or would like to recommend someone else.
Assuming this isn't very complex to set up, I think we should consider it our highest infrastructure-related priority at present, given that it holds significant benefit to users for what I'm assuming is relatively little development time*.
*again, please advise if I'm wrong on how much effort this would take
@gregorbg please advise if you disagree with prioritisation
I can definitely pick this up, but I don't think I will be able to do this before Euros because I am leaving to go there soon :P. I think for Euros we should do it manually one last time anyway, because it's a Thursday-Sunday comp.
You know what, that's fair enough :P I hope Euros is awesome!
Do you think we should upgrade from the Thursday already? Or only from the Friday evening UTC? Cost is little enough that probably pushing it on Thursday isn't the end of the world.
Looking at the schedule there are very few second rounds on Thursday and Friday so data entry being a bit delayed due to load wouldn't be an issue. I guess we can do it spontaneously if we notice it gets worse