Disaster!

Early this morning (Pacific Time), my blog server tried to reboot — but a disk drive failure prevented it. As a consequence, my blog and email server was down hard for several hours today.

I live way, way out in the boonies — and I’m a geek who irrationally insists on running all his own software. This means that it’s my server (I get to fix it), and it is located a long way away from my house (in a place where it’s possible to get a broadband connection). When it breaks I have to travel for the best part of an hour (each way) to go visit it. This time, I had to make that round trip twice — I had to bring it home, put it on the bench, and figure out what happened. And fix it.

This is the second time in two weeks that a disk drive died in the server, and the disks are a bit long in the tooth, so I just went ahead and replaced all four of them. Hopefully this won’t happen again anytime soon.

My apologies to my seven regular readers for disturbing their morning routine…