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Name:	Rick Overman
Date Posted:	May 22, 2005
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What are the chances that the CPU fan would fail on my new webserver just days after I deploy it? Whatever they are I hit the jackpot. (note: I had been breaking that server in for months 24/7 at the office). I got up this morning to the GG site not responding, humm. Went into work to try to determine what was going on and it appeared to be offline, humm, humm! Called the ISP to have an engineer let me into the secure data center (oh, but the on call engineer was 2 hours away ...seeing his girlfriend as I find out later), grrr! Things only got better from here, but not exactly the way I wanted to start my Sunday morning.

Thanks everyone for your patience while I got the replacement server configured and tested.

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Joseph Euan (May 22, 2005 at 22:05 GMT)

Sucks about the fan, great to see GG back up... well done :)

My withdrawal symptoms are going now and I can stop rocking back and forth...

Mark Barner (May 22, 2005 at 22:16 GMT)

I was hoping you was uploading the secret stuff, like Contstructor
and Torque 1.4 release. LOL

Ben Garney (May 22, 2005 at 22:19 GMT)

Yay! Thanks, Rick!

Bryan Letcher aka "Panthros" (May 22, 2005 at 22:31 GMT)

1 webserver lol! So the question is, did you learn your lesson? ;)

Rick Morrison (May 22, 2005 at 22:41 GMT)

I'm with you mark ! can't what. looking every day.

Jeremy Alessi (May 23, 2005 at 00:31 GMT)

Great job getting it back up ... crazy that the fan died!

Anton Bursch (May 23, 2005 at 09:10 GMT)

@Joseph - lol

@Rick O. - your pic has a whole new meaning now :)
Edited on May 23, 2005 09:10 GMT

Brian Wells (May 23, 2005 at 16:45 GMT)

You need to sleep in the data center; this stuff can happen at ANY time. I say we start a charity raffle to get you a deluxe hammock to keep in there.

Who is with me?

Gregory "Centove" McLean (May 23, 2005 at 17:48 GMT)

Its that dratted invisble proximity detector on servers...

The further away someone is that can fix a server, the higher the chance of said server failing in some way :)

Ivan Lazarte (May 23, 2005 at 17:59 GMT)

I hope you guys are doing the whole colocation bit :) have someone else do all the dirty work of file system maint!

OneST8 (May 23, 2005 at 18:53 GMT)

Thank you very much for all your efforts. I'm loving the new site (minus the bugs) not to mention the whole google bit. The care and attention all you GG Employees pay towards this community and your work is something that I truly appreciate.

Keep up the good work!

Mark Storer (May 23, 2005 at 19:55 GMT)

Sounds like you need to administer a couple floggings at your ISP:

1 lash per minute of down-time sounds right to me.

Treb Connell (formerlyMasterTreb (May 23, 2005 at 22:03 GMT)

yeah I hoped something big was going on.

Tingli (May 30, 2005 at 05:25 GMT)

One second ago I owned TorqueDemo-game engine.Now I don't know what to do next,help me.Thanks a lot.
Edited on May 30, 2005 05:26 GMT

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