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August 7, 2004
Bad Server, Bad
By QBlog in
Early Friday morning, my server died. It experienced a major malfunction and did not come back online after rebooting; interrupting all Web, ftp and email services. However, all incoming mail was queued so no email was lost. Some email may not show up in my inbox immediately but I should get it, eventually.
The server had to be completely rebuilt as there were some hardware failures in addition to the software crash. After the new server was restored, all data was reloaded and back online early this morning. While I don't believe any data were lost, there is a slight possibility that things posted 20 hours prior to the outage are missing. That was when the last full backup of the site was performed. If you notice any missing information or any problems with certain features of this site, please notify me via email. Please do not post a comment about it here as I may not be checking these comments regularly for a couple of days.
Thanks for your patience and I apologize for this inconvenience. These things do happen and hopefully they don't happen too often. This is the first such outage in three years and I pray that it never happens again. A lot has been learned from this experience and certain precautions will be taken to ensure that the new server won't die.