So as most of you noticed I had problems with the server and it was down for a day, I’m not exactly sure what was wrong. But /dev/hda3 got errors and automatically remounted as read-only per /etc/fstab, I tried `fsck -y /dev/hda3`, it finished, rebooted, server came up but sshd (or any other services) didn’t come back up.
Submitted a trouble ticket to ServerBeach and they put in a new hard drive and re-generated the server, with the old hard drive in there as well (though they forgot to mount it). I suspect it was a hard drive failure, but I can never really know… Took them a day to get it up though. Trevor and I spent about 3.5 hours getting everything back up and running.
I got another server from ServerMatrix, if it works out well I will be migrating the stuff over in the following weeks. Here’s the server stats:
- Server: Super Server 2.8 GHz
- Primary HDD: 80GB Hard Drive
- Secondary HDD: 80 GB Hard Drive
- Drive Controller: IDE
- RAM: 1024 MB RAM
- Number of ips: 5 IP Addresses
- Bandwidth: 1200 GB Bandwidth
- Uplink Port Speed: 100 Mbps Uplink
- Web Analytics: Urchin 100 profiles
- Database: None
- Backup Service: NAS 20GB
- Operating System: Debian (stable)
- Server Management Plan: Silver
- Control Panel: None
- Firewall: None
- VPS Software: None
- Salesperson:
- Special Requests or Comments: Sarge version