New Server – Not Intentional!
Yes we are now on a new server not inside of our house anymore. It all started on Sunday morning. For some reason I woke up at 4am with no alarm clock, which is odd due to Amy and Jace let me sleep in till at least 6:30am or so. Anyways I went down stairs to my office and I noticed that the monitor showed no connection like the server was turned off. I looked at the server and the light was on so I held in the power button and nothing happened. I unplugged the server and powered it back up and it was on for about 5 minutes before I started smelling that beautiful smell of burning electronics.
It turns out the power supply fan died and caused the power supply to overheat and simply die. It was at that moment I had to make a decision. Buy a new one for a server 5 years old and pray nothing else is wrong or simply move the web site to a new hosting provider.
I talked it over with Amy and we decided that we would pay for hosting outside of the house and if I get the server running I will use it for testing applications. If it completely dies then it will go to the PC grave yard.
It was a long process to get the site moved especially since all the data was now gone and there could be no backup and restore. However I did have a copy on another server in a different file format that I could copy and paste to get this back up and running with all the posts as well as I had all of the pictures.
We hate having down time on the site but all should be well now. We ask everyone register on the site so you will have the opportunity to post comments.