When It Rains …
One of our primary web servers has been sputtering and fizzling all morning. It’s not a good day when your website uptime stats report looks like this. Ah, the Life & Times of a Web Geek …
I’m not knocking our web host, here. We’ve been with them since ‘97 and they are very rarely down at all, and usually no more than a matter of seconds when they are. In this rare instance, the server lumbers along for an hour or so and then takes a deep dive into oblivion until they restart it. An hour or more later, the process repeats. It doesn’t help that it’s taking email and FTP services out each time, as well. Now we know why Justin & I have two separate server hosting accounts — as bad as having several sites offline is, it’d be horrific to have them ALL offline.
True to form, in the span of time it took me to screencap the status screen and blog this, the server’s back up. So I’m back to developing before the next nosedive potentially hits…
Just received another email from our tech and if they can’t isolate the issue, they’re going to do a complete chassis swap of the server this evening. We’ll see what happens…
