Sorry for the downtime…
If any of you have tried visiting Art Of Geek at all today, you may have been met with a nasty error message from your web browser. I just want you to know that your web browser lied to you, the problem was on your end, not ours. OK, just kidding. One of my gigabit switches had it’s power supply die at 1:13 am (according to my logs) and unfortunately I only noticed the site was inaccessible after I left for work so I was unable to do anything about it until I got home about an hour ago. Luckily I had a spare power supply handy that had the same connector and voltage. After replacing the bad part, everything is running smoothly again. So move along people, there’s nothing to see here. That’s doubly true to anyone who hasn’t tried visiting the site earlier today.
One of these days, the reason this site goes down might actually be the old Mac server I’m running it on, but darn if that thing just doesn’t keep on running like the energizer bunny. For those who are curious, this entire site (blog and forums) are hosted on a circa. 2000 PowerMac G4. Originally a 400MHz G4 processor, I’ve upgraded the cpu to a 1.4GHz G4 and have 1GB of RAM installed. It’s running the latest version of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Server quite nicely. But I’m afraid that’s the last major OS X release this hardware is going to see since Apple has already announced that Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is going to run on Intel Macs only. Fortunately, we probably won’t see Snow Leopard until late next year at the earliest. In the meantime, I’ve got my fingers crossed that this workhorse continues to serve up pages reliably for another couple of years at least. 
2 comments September 8th, 2008