Server Issues
Some of your may have noticed that this site was down for about a day. Oh who am I trying to kid. 3 people noticed if that and most of you are probably reading this going, “oh, you had issues. I guess so, you’re writing about them.”
Since we’re all here on the same page, let’s continue shall with with the postmortem.
What Happened?
On Sunday morning, a little after 9:30 AM I noticed that I was no longer getting email from my server. Which was kind of a bummer as I had just gotten a cert setup for IMAP+SSL. I started poking around doing the usual pings and traceroutes. It was clear that I wasn’t having a connectivity issue to the internet, this was clearly an issue with my server. Web was down, smtp, ssh, everything. Ugh, not good. This server had issues about 6 months earlier where half of its ram died. I should have seen this as a sign to move everything off right then and there. But I didn’t.