Short Downtime
Yeah, my blog was down for almost the past two days, Khalid had notified me 2 days ago right when i woke up that my blog was down (thanks Khalid) which was strange because all the other sites on the server were up and running fine, I reuploaded the index file and the blog was working fine.
Yesterday the same problem happened, however uploading all of the wordpress files didn’t work this time, my wordpress installation is up to date and all the files are there, after lots of investigation it turned out to be a hard disk issue on the server, it was full! luckily I had ordered a 2nd hard drive a couple of days ago and it was installed today.
This was a scary reminder of the importance of backups, I haven’t made a database backup in a while which would have been a total disaster if I had lost the database or it was corrupted, always back up!
December 31st, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Wow how much space do you use? Or is it a server at home?
-Mike
January 1st, 2008 at 3:11 am
I rent my own server and host lots of sites on it, including this blog, the server as a whole ran out of disk space, this blog doesnt use more than 50MB’s of disk space.
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:47 am
No problem buddy, glad to be of assistance!