Ataraxis Software Company Blog, Not Much Server Luck

We've had 2 outages over at the new Ataraxis Software company blog. Here is the current status of our server (I think we're Gilford):

Gilford and Pendrell, Sat Oct 22, 13:30 GMT

Both Gilford and Pendrell are down at the moment, Gilford for a bit longer it seems. Pendrell is currently undergoing a fsck operation, Gilford may need some physical intervention and Jason is on the way there.

UPDATE 13:50 Pendrell fsck is done, services are about to come up. Still no update on Gilford.

UPDATE 14:05 Pendrell is back up.

UPDATE 14:51 Gilford has had a catastrophic failure. From the error messages we’ve seen, and correlating it with some Intel white papers, it’s an “internal processor error” that designates a “catastrophic processor failure.” More concrete detail on the exact cause/nature are hard to come by.

In the meantime, we’re working on getting Gilford’s data up onto one of our spare servers. Right now, we have the hard drives mounted on the spare and are checking the filesystems so that we can get them mounted and looked at.

Posted 13 minutes ago by Filip Hajný to Outage alert

I commend TextDrive for this level of transparency. It's not there fault the CPU of the server is wigg'n out. I hope they pitch that box into the closest river.

At this point I hope the datafiles on the server are okay, or properly backed up.

Again, it's not TextDrive's fault that the hardware is crap. But I really wish Jeff and I had gone with the host I use for this web site (michaelsica.com). I've used a bunch of hosts in my time, and Crystal Tech surpasses all of them in every conceivable way - except for TextDrive's Subversion repository feature.