Hardware failure
by Rick Overman · 05/22/2005 (2:48 pm) · 14 comments
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.
Thanks everyone for your patience while I got the replacement server configured and tested.
#2
and Torque 1.4 release. LOL
05/22/2005 (3:16 pm)
I was hoping you was uploading the secret stuff, like Contstructorand Torque 1.4 release. LOL
#3
05/22/2005 (3:19 pm)
Yay! Thanks, Rick!
#4
05/22/2005 (3:31 pm)
1 webserver lol! So the question is, did you learn your lesson? ;)
#5
05/22/2005 (3:41 pm)
I'm with you mark ! can't what. looking every day.
#6
05/22/2005 (5:31 pm)
Great job getting it back up ... crazy that the fan died!
#8
Who is with me?
05/23/2005 (9:45 am)
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?
#9
The further away someone is that can fix a server, the higher the chance of said server failing in some way :)
05/23/2005 (10:48 am)
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 :)
#10
05/23/2005 (10:59 am)
I hope you guys are doing the whole colocation bit :) have someone else do all the dirty work of file system maint! 
#11
Keep up the good work!
05/23/2005 (11:53 am)
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!
#12
1 lash per minute of down-time sounds right to me.
05/23/2005 (12:55 pm)
Sounds like you need to administer a couple floggings at your ISP:1 lash per minute of down-time sounds right to me.
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