> Got the explanation for why Leo Laporte's web site was down. Too bad > his outsourced people aren't up to speed on the perils of RAID. > > The Website Is Down Submitted by Leo Laporte on Sun, 2008-09-21 14:41. > > On Friday evening we had a catastrophic failure of the web server that > hosts TWiT Live, the TWiT Army Canteen, Leoville.com, and this site. The RAID > 5 controller died, and when it did it marked all the disks unusable. > Support personnel at Softlayer, our hosting company, weren't able to recover > the disks, so they did the only thing they could do: replaced the > controller and reinstalled the operating system. We're in the process of restoring all > the sites.
Was Leo paying for high availability or did he go with the budget plan? Server replication isn't free. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
