This has got to be the server month from hell!!!
Not 3 or 4 days after getting the server back online from the DOS attack but the motherboard in it looks like it died (It had been running without being rebooted 745 days 🙂 Go linux.. It has been down for the last 2 days from this. Today we spent 6 hours swaping out the old server for a new one and copying the hard drive on to a new one to use as the primary boot drive. The new server and hard drive though not “new” should be a bit faster as the CPU is about 30% faster and it has double the ram now with one gig of memory. Also the new new hard drive is a 7200 rpm 8meg cache drive running at 59megs a second throughput. This is probably 5 times what the old drive was doing.. We found after the fact that DMA was probably not enable for the hard drive on the old server.. To be honest it probably didn’t matter as it was still much much faster than the available bandwidth for pushing content over the internet.
I will also as a result of this be implementing a little more stringent backup scheadule. At one point today we though the old hard drive had died and taken the data with it. It had been a while since it was back up and I would have lost a lot of my posts here on the weblog as well as a lot of pictures from out of Gallery.
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