Sorry, folks, unplanned site outage

**George E. Sheils** · 20-Oct-2013, 08:13

Great to see the site back up and running.

I missed it a lot.

**AtlantaTerry** · 20-Oct-2013, 08:22

Having been in tech support for many years and a Novel network administrator I know the rock-in-the-stomach feeling when a network goes down.

You keep saying it was A hard disk failure. One hard disk? Really? You don't have a RAID subsystem? There must be more of a technical story to the outage than simply one hard drive that failed.

Good to have you up and running. Now go get some sleep, I'm sure you need it.

**angusparker** · 20-Oct-2013, 14:20

Originally Posted by AtlantaTerry

Having been in tech support for many years and a Novel network administrator I know the rock-in-the-stomach feeling when a network goes down.

You keep saying it was A hard disk failure. One hard disk? Really? You don't have a RAID subsystem? There must be more of a technical story to the outage than simply one hard drive that failed.
Good to have you up and running. Now go get some sleep, I'm sure you need it.

Agreed. Would be good to put in place a RAID with mirrored disk drives that then can switch over seamlessly. That's pretty standard. Missed the Forum!