Deni-chan is a Cold Weather Girl

Deni-chan (the deninet.com webserver) was down today since early this morning. Being that I was at work, I was unable to get back to the glowing blue box on my living room floor and figure out what was wrong. I had hoped she just needed a restart, but it wasn't so simple.

When she came back up, her main documents drive, the one housing virtually all the data on the server, refused to mount. I had feared that drive had failed completely. When I finally tore away the IDE and power cables, her stack of hard drives were so hot that I nearly was burned. Thankfully, after a brief cooling period, I managed to reboot the system to a working state.

Shortly after I post this entry, I'm going to run a backup of deninet.com. I will then run a file system backup for the remaining files. Unfortunately, Deni-chan does not posses a RAID card so there is a single point of failure with the system. I'm hoping that I'll be able to purchase new hardware for her in the future that will include RAID.

Thankfully it's only an overheating problem. This could have been much worse.