Server Outage
So the web server was down all weekend.
I came home at 6:00 a.m. Saturday morning to find the power in my living room off. This happens frequently because we blow fuses while running to A/C units in the apartment. Normally, if I’m around to replace the fuse, I can do so before the UPS battery dies on the server. However, if I were say, out partying until 6:00 a.m., well…I don’t fix it in time and the server goes down.
Saturday morning however, it didn’t want to come back up. It appears like the motherboard died for some reason.
I was in no state to fix it at 6:00 a.m., so I went to bed for a few hours…then got up at about 11:30 to reports that it was supposed to be like 105 degrees and 80% humidity or some such nonsense. So phone calls were made, a handle of tequila was purchased, and off to the beach we went…
I got home from the beach at 10:30 p.m. or so, and didn’t want to work on it then either. So I went to bed.
When I woke up Sunday morning, they were predicting another scorching hot sonofbitch day. So I went and had breakfast with a friend, went to the gym, and then retreated to a cool swimming hole with an awesome, frighteningly high rope swing. We stayed there until we got hungry, and moved to another park with grills where we grilled some chicken breasts and corn. Stayed there until about 6:00 p.m. then came back to town, got dressed (in clean, dry clothes) and went to Margaritas for a beer. One turned into two, which turned into 4 at 3 different bars….and the next thing I knew it was 11:30 p.m….so we all went home and went to bed.
I realize this was gross negligence of the server and all that…but hey, priorities man. Let’s see here, tequila, girls in bikini’s, and a DJ on the beach or working on a web server? I’m sure you can understand. The growing pains of your webmaster getting an actual life…go figure…
Anyway. Today I’ve moved the disks back into our old server and booted it up, and it started with no problems…so here we are. Slightly slower than previously, but stable and functional again.
July 1st, 2005 at 2:15 pm
The 8 Glasses of Tequila Myth
Interesting post from James Joyner over at Outside the Beltway. Dr. Manley Goldfinger, a dean the University of Pennsylvania (at Indiana) Medical School, explains why drinking large amounts of tequila each day provides zero benefits to one’s health.
July 1st, 2005 at 2:33 pm
Interesting. Looks like comment spam, but is about Tequilla, a word actually used in my post. So I’ll leave it.