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When It Rains, It Pours (website outage tonight)

Mar 05, 2009 incarnate link
We experienced a webserver outage this evening (disk failure.. actually both disks in a raid mirror, somehow), and we're back up again, for the moment. More migrations to do later today. This.. sucks, as it totally takes resources away from the debugging and new-content-for-fri (newspost). But, having a functional website seems kind of important, and it's very cool that we were able to restore everything so quickly.

None of this should have impacted the game, at all.

Anyway, FYI.
Mar 05, 2009 Whistler link
That is an amazing failure and recovery. Thanks for post - I thought it was just me.
Mar 05, 2009 Kierky link
Yeah, noticed this. Not a big deal. Great job on getting it back up so soon.

-Est
Mar 05, 2009 moldyman link
Seriously, don't worry about it, Inc. I've seen entire RAIDs fail at the same time while working at a datacenter. Weird, but it happens.
Mar 05, 2009 maq link
Might indicate the reason was something affecting both drives.
Mar 06, 2009 incarnate link
The site is now magically served from another machine. Yay.
Mar 06, 2009 incarnate link
Hmm, except maybe time zones aren't right? Crap.
Mar 06, 2009 roguelazer link
lol. Now I know why the RAID array failed -- chronoton radiation. :P
Mar 06, 2009 a1k0n link
Ugh, fixed.
Mar 06, 2009 MSKanaka link
Something tells me roguelazer recently watched the Voyager episode where Kes keeps going backwards in time...