March 2, 2003
Things that go bump and grind in the night.
Up late on a Sunday night, working on getting the latest site updates posted to the Veer server. Say, let’s go check my own site’s stats while I’ve got a minute to spare. Crap, can’t hit the server tonight. Come to think of it, somebody sent me an email earlier this evening saying that the splorp.com server seemed a bit sluggish. This could mean a couple of things. Either the dog tripped over the ethernet cable under my desk again, or the hard drive in the server finally jumped the shark. As it turns out, it was the latter (and naturally, the least enjoyable) of the two potential scenarios. After cracking the server case, I was surprised that it wasn’t the start up drive that ceased to be, it was the internal backup drive. I couldhave sworn it was the original 4GB internal drive that was ready to fly off its bearings. The fortunate part of this story is that nobody lost any data. For now, I’ve disconnected the dead drive to get the server back up and running, and I promise I’ll install the replacement drive tomorrow.
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