Impending Server Repair

April 5th, 2005, by Rich.

The server that runs this site has endured a minor injury to it’s long term storage (one of the disks, or the RAID card that the disks connect to, are kaput) - fortunately we have backups and a fairly resilient machine, so it’s serving the pages from it’s RAM cache at the moment. The bottom line is that this site will be off line for a little while fairly soon, as soon as we have the opportunity to work out what hardware is at fault, and buy a new one of it.

4 Responses to “Impending Server Repair”

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rich boakes Says:
April 6th, 2005 at 8:47 am
Update:After a small outage this morning a temporary server has been commissioned.
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rich boakes Says:
April 6th, 2005 at 6:46 pm
Update: The temporary server (bless it’s little bus) is having to work jolly hard, but is surviving. The main server seems to have come alive again, and the manufacturer (Dell) have suggested (in a “read between the lines” kind of way) that it’s just due to the immaturity of RAID SATA when compared to RAID SCSI, which is a little more proven. i.e. it’s a hardware wibble, and we should just reboot it and it should hopefully not happen again. :-/

So that’s tomorrow’s outage explained in advance.
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chris bristow Says:
April 7th, 2005 at 2:19 pm
Was this the result of another “water cooling” experiment ?
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rich boakes Says:
April 7th, 2005 at 2:29 pm
:)