http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/06/17/unexpected-downtime en-us 40 Quality rants on programming theory and stuff geeks like <p>My <a href="http://blog.moertel.com/">blog</a> and the <a href="http://community.moertel.com/">Community Projects site</a> were down for about twelve hours yesterday. Both were hosted on one of my few non-RAID servers. As happens to servers from time to time, the poor beast suffered a hard-drive failure.</p> <p>After a bit of diagnosing, I decided to decommission the server rather than repair it. Keeping a non-RAID system going isn&#8217;t worth the effort these days. Hard drives fail too often, and restoring from backup is too time consuming.</p> <p>Most of downed server&#8217;s duties are now handled by one of its beefier, <span class="caps">RAID</span>-served brethren. I have opted not to move some of the low-priority services (e.g., the <a href="http://community.moertel.com/ss/space/LectroTest">LectroTest</a> mailing list) over just now. A new server should be arriving in a few days, and it will make a more logical home for these jobs.</p> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:49:00 -0400 urn:uuid:c39b7b34e3023913c6cb3c4dc9d82ad6 Tom Moertel http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/06/17/unexpected-downtime site news http://blog.moertel.com/articles/trackback/69