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recent downtime

July 18th, 2001 · 2 Comments

An explanation.

Initially Media Temple began receiving reports of minor disk corruption Thursday evening (failed email, a missing file here and there). Our staff began taking immediate corrective actions to repair the disk, and thus discovered that a single drive on the RAID array had failed without proper alerts or notifications. Without downtime we immediately replaced the drive to restore the RAID to its full operational status, normally a safe procedure. Consequently, major disk corruption occurred and the new drive also failed during the rebuild. We now understand the server problem to be beyond a simple disk failure.

Not to worry, I’m not going anywhere.

Like you were worried.

Tags: General

2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 gary // Jul 18, 2001 at 2:50 am

    and I was all ready to report you as a f!@#$ed weblog over at davezilla…

  • 2 michael // Jul 18, 2001 at 9:39 am

    oh i’m f@#k’d alright, but luckily, i have my files backed up now, and will be backing things up regularly …

    i wonder who else went down? i am small potato(e)s compared to some of the other people hosted with (mt). but then again, they are probably all on dedicated servers.

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