Server was down for reasons of stupidity
Ok, I dont know how long (actually only 2 days according to stats) this site was down. The reasons:
- I don’t live alone and sometimes my roommate likes to take pills. I got nothing against that, but then he comes to my room, brings some of his stuff here and takes some of mine away… Actioning irrationally he sometimes does other things too - this time he plugged off the power from my switch where my server is linked into. So that caused first problem.
- My friend restarted computer. Before I had my httpd start automatically at boot but now that it also keeps https server it asks password when starting… Obviously it thus has to be hand started by me right after booting (there was, btw, no need for reboot anyway, that was all my friends stupidity).
Well, I just restarted apache and everything should be working fine again…
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June 23rd, 2009 at 6:42 am
In the words of John Steinbeck
‘The best laid plans of mice and men go oft awry’
When it happens, you have no control but so often, even though you are not to blame, you still feel the guilt.
Calm yourself, we’ll get over it.
June 24th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Pretty cool post. I just came by your blog and wanted to say
that I’ve really enjoyed browsing your blog posts. In any case
I’ll be subscribing to your blog and I hope you write again soon!
June 24th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
@Gary
I know I’m not the one to blame, but read the entry I just added - I mean, first my server is disconnected by my roommate and then my drunken friend (there was some time between these incidents though) physically attacks my server. Well, this makes me think if I should relocate my server somewhere else (but I don’t know where).
It’s all a big coincidence though as I’ve been living here for over three years now and these two incidents have been the first ones and they might very well be the last ones two. If not, well then there is more to consider than just the safety of my computers ;)
I trust that everything will go on just fine from now on though.