I’ll be honest. I hate computers. I loathe them. All they do is cause headaches and annoyances. Software updates, bug fixes, things going wrong, accidentally deleting files, corrupted backups, bots trying to convince you that you have a small penis and pushing viagra on you. I hate it all.

Two weeks ago the server I built a year ago and co-located at a datacenter decided it was a great, swell time to kick the bucket.

Now, I knew it had issues from about 10 months ago. Threw ECC (Error Correcting Code) errors. I figured I’ll replace the ram someday. Kept putting it off, and off. Server ran fine for a bit over 12 months.

Then, catastrophic failure of the ram. At first, I thought it was a hard drive death. So I bought two brand spanking new hard drives, as well as replacement ram, and sent it all off to the datacenter to install in the server; and they were to send me the old parts back so I could replace it all.

They did their job well, installed everything, got it up and running. Within hours of me setting it up and tinkering with it, BAM, more errors from the primary HD. Told the datacenter to switch over to the spare drive (which is also brand new and identical mind you) and start over. They did it, and again I was happily on my way with setting it up again. 12 hours later, BAM, more HD errors on the spare drive! Joy is me!

At this point, I’m utterly defeated and tell them to just send everything to me. I get the parts, and start testing each drive one by one. First the original drive. It had a few errors, only caused by shutting down improperly. Besides that, it was perfectly fine. ugh.

The two brand new drives, each were lemons. I ran extended tests and they were both functioning, but not usable due to errors on the drives. Brand new drives, identical make/models, both duds. Their serial numbers were about 100 digits off. God…

So, here I am now. Finally got a dedicated server setup. Should of had a second server long ago for fail over purposes. If anyone actually noticed the blog was down, this is why.

Man, do I HATE computers. (But they’re sadly an essential necessity anymore.)

Categories: Computers
Tags: Computers, servers
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