Recent Server Downage
As some of you might have noticed the server was down for a little while during the night. I noticed that when I came to check on the site and another website that I host on the same server (rodtempleton.net) that there was some strange session errors and a message about read-only.
To me this was weird, and I thought someone somehow got into the server and royally buggered it up. The first thing I check was if I could backup the databases but I could not! I kept getting an input/output error when I went to do a mysqldump. I then thought, ok perhaps restarting Apache would help. That gave me a read-only error and it could not start because it could not read/write to the error logs. I thought that was really strange so I looked up the logs. They were all set in read-only mode. In fact some of the root commands would not execute (like reboot, shutdown) because of the read-only mode the server somehow put itself into.
I did manage to reboot the machine using the command init 6 but the server failed to respond or properly reboot because my pings were not coming back. When I got to the office today it did fail on its reboot, but a hard-reboot of the computer put everything back.
I will be running fsck later today to ensure there are no bad sectors on the hard-drive. What would I do without a server? Well I do have a spare hard-drive that I could quickly replace and set up and get running in a couple of hours (after patches/updates etc), but hopefully I won’t have to do that.
Anyway we’re back up and it seems to be running fine. I’ll check the logs later today as well to make sure nothing else went screwy. I love being a web administrator because it’s fun when little things like this pop up.
I noticed your site was having problems yesterday but didn’t know of a way to get in touch with you to let you know about it. Glad to see things are back to normal.
I’ll look into making a contact form or putting an email address up. Thanks though!
I’ve done some MySQL Dumps and backed up the databases so I’ll have to cronjob those later.
I didn’t notice that your site was down, but glad to see it’s back up!
I’d be interested if you posted what your server setup is. (I.e. specs, OS, etc)
My site is currently down as well, having some problems with my shared host..and my dedicated server is being formatted at the moment. =/
I’ll have to double check the specs but I know I’m running Ubuntu 6.0 and it is on a dedicated dual T1 feed with unlimited bandwidth. Yup you heared right, unlimited bandwidth!
Though it is at least a 2.0 Celeron with at least 512MB of RAM and some sorta 80+ GB HDD. Nothing really fancy actually, but there are only 4 sites that run on it.
Nice, is that the setup you have at your house, or at work? Also, what sites do you run on it?
BTW, your lastest post is semi-broken. I can read it from the main page, but when I click to comment on it, or click the title to view the post and comments, the post links to http://www.tingram.ca/blog/Text-Link-Ads:-Rejected%85again The RSS feed links there as well.
As Bill said, I was going to comment on your TLA post but it is broken.
I’m almost positive that you once your site is a PR4, TLA will automatically approve you.
YEah, your TLA post is broken right now. Better fix that up, or script it so the “:” is removed from the title as well. As for TLA, you’re going to need to get your ALEXA index up as well. It’s too low still. TLA seems to weight your suitability heavily on that as well.
Ah thanks for the mention of the TLA post being broken. It was because of the Hyphen in Text-Link Ads that I used. My PHP inserts hyphens into the URL (to make it friendly) and then bases the query on the title when it strips the hyphens out when you click on it.
It’s all fixed now though. Thanks again!