Dawn of the Geeks

A couple years ago now the main drive for my server PC (the drive with all the actual web content on it) decided to die. Except it didn’t really die. It just kind of got confused and forgot where all the files were. Well. It’s happened again. I’m currently in the process of recovering all the files.

Sites affected include Indie-Mobile, DMOZ and DevCenter

No files should actually be lost and fortunatly there are actually three drives in the system. One for the OS and Web Applications (Win2K, Apache, etc), one for the log files and mySQL and one for the web content. I had the sense to do this because I know that the web-content drive is the most abused and most likely to fail and I didn’t care to risk everything on a single drive. Especially where there is a 100% chance that every year or so it will crash.

IIRC all the drives I use are Seagates. I use them because they don’t tend to physically die and they’re cheap. Plus, they now come with a 5 year warrenty. Even when they crash I can recover all the files, format the drive, put the files back and I’m good to go again for another year or so. If revenue keeps going up like it is then I’ll be investing in better hardware. For now it works. Most of the time. The main thing is just having backup drives so if a drive dies I can plug in a mirrored drive and keep going and recover the failed drive without interupting the site.

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