I am sure all of us would like an after action report when you finally get back to some semblance of normalcy.
I am really curious about how use of backup generators caused a fire. Everything after that is just the dominoes falling, with an extra helping of bad luck for the EEVBlog servers.
I figured this event needed it's own thread, so moved it from the servere reports thread.
I figured this event needed it's own thread, so moved it from the servere reports thread.Scared the crap out me when my post went missing, I thought we had a major DB issue, lol
For those who weren't following along on Twitter, it was eventually confirmed that 2 of the three EEVblog boxes (the ones that handle the website and forum databases etc) were in the "splash zone".
So they took longer to get back up and running than my email/management server box which was in another part of the datacenter and another subnet (it's a different type of box, single xeon instead of dual xeon).
Given that they set us up on a new box (and presumably just pulling the old drives), it's likely the old boxes were either water damaged, or it was simply easier to give us a new box until such time as the old boxes can be evaluated properly.
Will be interesting to see if they honor their pledge of 1 day free hosting for every 15 minutes down.
96 free days for every 24 hours should give Dave a year or more free server hosting.
Will be interesting to see if they honor their pledge of 1 day free hosting for every 15 minutes down.
96 free days for every 24 hours should give Dave a year or more free server hosting.
I think I recall seeing a 30day cap.
I aslo learned the importance of relying on a single email server. I was surprised at the stuff I couldn't do that relied on my primary email for confirmations etc.
For those who weren't following along on Twitter, it was eventually confirmed that 2 of the three EEVblog boxes (the ones that handle the website and forum databases etc) were in the "splash zone".
The lesson here is, whilst it's great to have a fully redundant automatic backup server, it was kinda silly to have it in the same datacenter!
We are going to ask Gorillaservers is they can provision one of the boxes in their LA data center, so if a whole city/state goes out the server will still operate.
It's currently still operating in a degraded state, and performance is surrently impacted until the caches catch up.
Gorillaservers upgraded the server box (maybe the old box was water damaged?) from Dual Xeon 2620V2 from the older dual L5630
I aslo learned the importance of relying on a single email server. I was surprised at the stuff I couldn't do that relied on my primary email for confirmations etc.
I aslo learned the importance of relying on a single email server. I was surprised at the stuff I couldn't do that relied on my primary email for confirmations etc.
I'm actually surprised to learn that you weren't using Google Workspace or Office 365 Dave. For the sake of $8-9/month per user, you can have all of the Google services, redundancy, spam filtering and 30-something email aliases. I haven't run my own mail server for decades and it's a bit of a thing of the past.
I aslo learned the importance of relying on a single email server. I was surprised at the stuff I couldn't do that relied on my primary email for confirmations etc.
I'm actually surprised to learn that you weren't using Google Workspace or Office 365 Dave. For the sake of $8-9/month per user, you can have all of the Google services, redundancy, spam filtering and 30-something email aliases. I haven't run my own mail server for decades and it's a bit of a thing of the past.