Server Failure
June 27th, 2007
Yep, my home server’s hard drive crashed about a week ago. As you can see, the site is back up and in tip-top condition. In fact, it may be even better than it was previously. Well, that’s not really hard to imagine is it?
I have moved to a hosted solution through Hosting Rails. So far, they have been awesome (and cheap). If you’re interested in trying them out, they gave me an affiliates link for referrals.
I have also switched over from Wordpress to Mephisto. I had wanted to try it out and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to jump right in. So far I am enjoying playing with Mephisto. Because it’s a Ruby on Rails application, I feel pretty comfortable digging into the source code. I think I have everything back the way I want it, but I welcome any suggestions for improvement.
Let me tell you, when that hard drive crashed (click, click, click… grrrrinnd) I was not all that concerned because I do fairly regular backups. If you haven’t backed up recently, I suggest you take the time right now to do so. I only lost a few posts and I was able to get those back from Google cache (Thanks Google!). The few pieces of data I was unable to retrieve were a couple of recent comments, so if you left a comment recently, then feel free to enter it again! If you haven’t left a comment recently, then now is the time to start.
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