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TNL.net in recovery mode
May 4, 2006
Welcome to TNL.net. If you like this content, you may consider subscribing to the RSS feed.It’s the kind of thing you thought would never happen: a crash. About 3 weeks ago, TNL.net started acting erratically due to the large volume the box was getting. I figured that it would be time for an upgrade soon but didn’t realize that what the box was telling me was that it was very sick and needed to be upgraded now!
So, on tax day, it crashed. Both sides of the RAID array were kaput. Because it was using a software based solution for RAID, it was not something I could recover from easily. And of course, it was something that required physical presence at the box. I quickly ordered a replacement server and set to the task of getting it back to life. In the process, I also did a major back-end upgrade. While historically, TNL.net had run on a Redhat Linux 7.3, the result of my putting off many upgrades due to a single bad decision (installing the Promise RAID drivers without really knowing what I was doing), you are now witnessing the rebirth of TNL.net on new hardware and a new up-to-date software kit. PHP5: yup! MySQL 5: of course! Apache 2: Definitely!
Of course, along the way, the site is making a number of clunking sounds. So bear with me as I test everything and if you see anything that does not work, send me an email at bugs at this domain (ie. tnl.net) minus the www.
Thanks for your patience, help and support during this complex transition.
