Site Back Online After Extended Absence

Dec
12
2007

Hey folks. It's been a long couple of days. Starting early on Monday, all of the sites on this server started having what first appeared to be MySQL problems. However, upon investigation, it was actually that MySQL couldn't get a lock on some files on the filesystem. That, in turn, ended up being caused by a hard drive failure.

Between mid day Monday and early this morning, lots of effort went into getting the hard drive replaced, the data restored, MySQL cooperating again and all of the sites back online.

Now, at 5:30am, things look like they're back to square. Unfortunately, the server was down for much longer than the normal SMTP timeout, so if you sent me email in the last couple of days, you probably got a bounced response (even if it's just in your spam folder), so you should re-send it to me or send it to jwynia@gmail.com just in case.

Sorry if it caused any inconvenience for anyone out there.

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J

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