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Lessons Learned: An Update on Our Server Outage

Lessons Learned: An Update on Our Server Outage

Friday, May 17, 2013

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It’s been a busy couple of days following the double whammy of two RAID drive failures on Wednesday morning. We wanted to provide an interim update on where things stand. We share a dedicated server with a couple of other folks. The server is managed and maintained by WestNIC out of New York but physically resides in a data center in Dallas. Even with state-of-the-art hardware, things go wrong. And a dual drive failure made things worse, much worse. The… Read More ›