Crash
Regular blog passers-by may have noticed that over the last couple of months my blog photos (here, at the "You Are What I Eat" blog with Steph, at MySpace, etc.) have sometimes shown up, sometimes not. The short version of this tale of woe is that I have run my own webserver since early '06 and have hosted several years worth of my own blog photos - far more than Photobucket or Picturetrail would allow - as well as video and audio files, and other stuff for friends including a couple of websites for causes I support. And my server, over the recent months, was dying a slow death.
Today it finally gave up the ghost.
I was able to rescue the websites and 99% of my images from backups and get another, hopefully more reliable box running Linux and the venerable Apache webserver software. The remains of my old server are against the far wall in the tan box. The newer, faster machine is the black box at the far right in the foreground. It's even hosting this photo below. Sort of funny when you think about it. It's hosting a picture of itself. Ha ha. Ha. Hee.
It's been a long day.
Regular blog passers-by may have noticed that over the last couple of months my blog photos (here, at the "You Are What I Eat" blog with Steph, at MySpace, etc.) have sometimes shown up, sometimes not. The short version of this tale of woe is that I have run my own webserver since early '06 and have hosted several years worth of my own blog photos - far more than Photobucket or Picturetrail would allow - as well as video and audio files, and other stuff for friends including a couple of websites for causes I support. And my server, over the recent months, was dying a slow death.
Today it finally gave up the ghost.
I was able to rescue the websites and 99% of my images from backups and get another, hopefully more reliable box running Linux and the venerable Apache webserver software. The remains of my old server are against the far wall in the tan box. The newer, faster machine is the black box at the far right in the foreground. It's even hosting this photo below. Sort of funny when you think about it. It's hosting a picture of itself. Ha ha. Ha. Hee.
It's been a long day.
Labels: geek humor, techie stuff, webserver
posted by Mark Lee at
12:00 AM
3 Comments:
Sorry to hear about the death of the server. Your post reminds me... I need to back my stuff up. Im not backed up at all. Im not as familiar with the server geek speak as I am with computers. Good luck with all your server stuff.
PS- I didnt know you had such a photography background!
Yikes!! I had all my photos (since around the time my youngest was born) on a separate drive and it died. I needed my brown pants when that happened.
T. took it up to his work and said he would see what he could save off of it.
He sent me a text message that said...
I have some good news and I have some bad news. The bad news is that your drive is toast. The good news is that I just saved a bunch of money by switching to gieco!
My heart just dropped. I then scrolled down and read that he was able to save all of my pictures.
He has a sick sense of humor. But I laughed. So I guess I do too.
I'm glad you were able to get most of your stuff from the old drive.
I love geek humor.
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