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As many of you know I posted yesterday on the server downtime/outage. The hard drive in the web server crashed and a new drive was installed. Today the system went through a TON of updates to the operating system and software and is still being worked on right now.

Posts and signups yesterday were lost due to this work. I apologize for any inconvenience this caused anyone.

We are back up now and everything should be normal. The web server (apache) may experience a few restarts but that should only cause a few bumps in your connections.

Let me know if you experience any other issues.

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Bigbone57

AdminDude......I poored my heart and soul into a post......and its lost.......Lost!
OMG.......I feel Violated......I need a tis...sue......Nurse I need some compensation...
(a: the act of compensating : the state of being compensated b : correction of an organic defect or loss by hypertrophy or by increased functioning of another organ or unimpaired parts of the same organ) Think about it, O.K.?

inthelead83

nurse nurse BB is off his MEDS AGAIN!! he needs his blue pill and 1 or 2 redheads... oh boy this don't look good MAKE IT 3 STAT!!!

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1 downtime in the time this forum has been up isnt bad.

considering my track record. haha

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Admin

This wasn't anticipated, it was a hard drive failure which really caused some issues not only for me but for my customers.

Add the fact that 3 different sets of people were working to resolve the issue so timelines aren't as close as they could have been. The datacenter attempted to resurrect the drive to no avail. The drive still had the data, but wouldn't boot. A new drive was installed and an OS was fired up. The server admin restored the data and I updated software. (To answer your question, yes I do remote backups, just in case)

It was at this point that my own computers power supply died (around 8PM Sunday). Monday morning by 10AM a new power supply was installed and I'm back online.

Then the fun really began. The server admin emailed me the previous night, which I never got to see due to my outage, and told me the OS was out of date. So the email went out to the datacenter to toss in a new CD with the OS, which of course happened to be a different OS (the old one was too outdated). If I knew this that night everything could have been done right away.

This necessated another format and install of the OS which for some reason occurred at 4AM this morning. Then the whole process began again of installing necessary software and doing updates which are still happening right now.

I hope this gives everyone a small glimpse of what can be involved with running your own server. This kind of thing doesn't happen often but it does. Of course every time one of these people do something it costs more money. This weekend could very well hurt, but such is life in the world of business.

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BigBone, if we ever meet I'll buy you a bag of cookies (or chips, your choice).

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Bigbone57

Thats why I like that young'in, allways look'n out for his elders...AdminDude....can I have a bag of Choclate chip, raisen and oatmeal cookies please. I got stomped in Stockton...
Damn BZM motors....Kicked My Azz. They past Me like I was sitt'in on the crapppper read'in the paper. I gotta mount one (BZM Motor) in My B-1 any one wanna help with this Mod?..........Dan, oh Dan, are you reading this? Help Me, I'm getting my Azzzzz handded too me by DM's with BZM's