Extended downtime
07-30-2010, 08:15 PM,
#1
Extended downtime
Hello,

Server 'pyro' was down for 6 hours from 00:04AM EST to 06:02AM EST due to a damaged RAM stick. The datacenter tech handling the issue was apparently inexperienced and our server node had some issues during boot.

Thank you for hosting with NiftyHost.
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07-30-2010, 11:26 PM,
#2
RE: Extended downtime
Zack, that statement of them being inexperienced was inaccurate. First 30 min they did the first step by a reboot of our VPS only, the next they saw the whole rack was offline and noticed it was damaged ram. Then the whole rack had to do fsck which takes a while to do. Then you have to wait another 30 minutes for the server to reboot.
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07-31-2010, 06:22 AM,
#3
RE: Extended downtime
I see. No problem, issues arise sometimes that are unavoidable.
07-31-2010, 09:50 AM,
#4
RE: Extended downtime
I kept trying to get on at that time lol
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07-31-2010, 09:53 AM,
#5
RE: Extended downtime
Yeah, sorry about that. It is a long time to be out, but at least it was early for the target audience.
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07-31-2010, 11:41 AM,
#6
RE: Extended downtime
Yeah, that's a good thing :P
07-31-2010, 12:03 PM,
#7
RE: Extended downtime
np lol, it was just telling me that I needed to go to bed instead of being up so late
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07-31-2010, 01:11 PM,
#8
RE: Extended downtime
thanks zack and mghq's great explanation
hope niftyhost will be better in the future
07-31-2010, 03:26 PM,
#9
RE: Extended downtime
It's actually a pretty random isolated incident for this to happen. Nobody sabotaged our server on purpose.
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08-01-2010, 12:32 PM,
#10
RE: Extended downtime
Sabatoge by someone? Guess not.

Maybe high server load damaged the RAM stick?


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