You’ve probably noticed that we’ve been down for quite a while. Our main Web server decided to take a serious poo yesterday. Unfortunately, it was a bitch to get working again. Our pre-tested spare motherboard for this particular monster box turned out to be bad and the second spare initially appeared to be bad as well. It wasn’t, but it wasn’t an exact match for the board it was supposed to be replacing. It required an additional power feed and turned out to be slightly different enough in configuration to require a complete system reinstall instead of just running off the image backup.

That turned out to take a very long time. Apparently, restoring nearly a terabyte of teeny-weeny little files (as Web graphics and HTML files are) can take forever. In any case, we’ve gotten the main server back up and running. We still have to restore the SQL database server and get some ancillary tools working, but this is a big step and, since we’ve been working on restoring the beasty throughout the night, we’re going to take a deep breath for a few minutes before we go back to the grind.