Server Spring Break
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CN was down for a couple of hours early this morning. I woke up and tried to load the CN home page in my web browser and the only I got was a network error. No connectivity to the server, I couldn't even ping it, nothing. Uh oh. I quickly contacted the host and requested a reboot and a few minutes later the server came back up and the site was working again. Hmm, hardware malfunction I thought. There should be something in the server logs to show what happened and when, except there were no error logs. Weird. Maybe Justy is right with her analysis of the situation. After further investigation it turns out that one of the server backup routines failed in the middle of the night which seemed to cause all the connectivity problems. The funny thing is that the server was up and running and chugging away the whole time. It appears that it just decided to go on strike for a few hours and not perform any actual work. I guess Planet Bob wanted to have a little Spring Break of its own. Anyways, everything is back to normal now and I've made some changes to the backup routine to hopefully prevent a similar issue like this in the future.
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