The Blog that Noone Reads

At some point last night, there was an error on the file system on my server. MySQL shutdown and all websites that depend on it became inaccessible. It took only a couple hours to work with the support team to have my server restarted and the file sytem issue corrected.

I keep regular backups of all the data and none of the sites running on this box are mission critical, so I wasn’t really too concerned. One thing that was rather troubling, though, was the fact that I use my site as a redirector to my OpenID provider. If my blog is down, I can’t log in to some services. This is a troubling side effect to using OpenID.

One of my projects for this weekend will be to setup a monitoring system on my mac mini so I will be notified of any irregularities before they become a problem.

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