I run a small web hosting company, single server, 15 or so customers, mostly businesses and churches. Server is colocated, some 30 miles away from where I live. That little server has been humming since late 1997, busily serving pages. I probably visited it 10 times physically--the rest of the time I administered it remotely using Timbuktu.
Well, my little server is no more. On Tuesday morning, everything was fine at 6 am, then at 7 am, nothing. Come to find out there was a major water leakage in the building housing my server, and of course the server is in the basement......fortunately, only my power supply got fried because the server box was off the floor, thank you Lord!
Anyway, it wouldn't reboot because when the power supply fried it messed my hard drives. But with a little help from Norton (Norton Utilities, that is), I was able to get them running again. It was flaky, though, and for 24 hours we just sort of limped along on a wing and a prayer.
About 4 months ago I started building a new faster server (the old one runs a 500 mHz G3, this one runs a 1.2 mHz G4) with some very fast hard drives. That was all put together and basically ready to go. So last night I copied the critical files (web sites and email), took the old server down one last time, and fired up the new one.
It's great, working well, no problems so far. It has taken some hours of work to restore settings, connections, etc. I still have a few things to go but basically we're online again. Could have been MUCH worse. And boy is the new one zippier!
Friday, January 21, 2005
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Time flies like an arrow
What can I say? It's been a month and a half. In that time I have closed my teaching semester, took some time off for Christmas vacation, and gotten the new semester up and running. Gotta get back to blogging. I have some things to say. Stay tuned.
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