March 2007

All services are now back up and running. I revived carrot (that’s the server in the basement). Everything that couldn’t be migrated to kiwi (that’s the new hosted server) is once again running on carrot. This includes the gallery and all Tomcat webapps (Wiki, Calendar).
I had liked the idea of no longer maintaining a server in the house any more, so I’m still looking into ways of migrating those.

While reviving carrot, I learned that there was no disk corruption. Carrot had long ago become unbootable and I just never noticed! In September 2006 the boot menu was incorrectly written. I don’t have logs to confirm it, but I assume this was the first time carrot had rebooted since then.

On Friday morning the server in my basement overheated and became completely unresponsive. It failed to properly reboot afterwards, perhaps due to slight corruption of the files needed for booting or a latent misconfiguration. I opted to accelerate the move to the new hosted server rather than try to bring the old server back to life. Mail and static web content was migrated by Saturday March 3rd. Blogs and some smaller features followed the next day. I’ve been ironing out the kinks and bringing remaining pieces back online throughout the week. Still down are:

• Gallery
• Web mail
• Wiki

Web mail will be restored before long. The others will need more time. If you see anything else amiss, please assume I’m unaware of the issue and let me know.