This past Sunday 4/02/2006 one of my memory modules failed today on my "Web Server". I came in from working on my front lawn and then seeding & fertilizing the lawn. I then decided to take a moment to update my "Main Blog" and then of course couldn't make any connection to my "Web Server".
My "Music Server" was still streaming music and I could see a number of people listening to this Music on Winamp. I checked my other systems as well and they were all up so I knew there was not a power hit or anything that affected all the systems
I checked my KVM switch and hooked my web server directly to a monitor and received no response. I then tried to ping my "Web Server" from my "Music Server" and that didn't work so I logged into my backup Linux server and couldn't ping it from there either.
I then slid my "Web Server" out a bit on the rack and began isolating the issue. Once I determined it was the one stick of 512mb RAM I located my receipt called the store I bought it from and found that since I had purchased it as a package I had to return it as a package.
Anyway now I have my 1gb of RAM back and my web Server intact.
I now need to get my backup "Web Server" up to speed again. With all of the changes I have made to my main "Web Server" I have ported none over to my backup system! I should have been ready for this scenario!
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