Hard Drive Failue
This morning around 6:00am PST we had a hard drive start to fail in our server. The machine had an uptime of 521 days with no problems at all. The tech team at the data center quickly worked to replace the hard drive and got the machine up and running with a new OS in about an hour and a half. We then began to transfer our backups from our off site backup location to the new server. This went a little slower then predicted due to some un expected network latency. As of 12:00pm pst the machine is fully functional with all of it’s data restored. Please let us know if you expierence any unusual problems. On a side note in the next few days we will be migrating to a faster machine with more ram and hd space. The migration should go pretty smooth with hopefully no more then 5 - 15mins of downtime while we sync databases. Thank you to everyone for helping make Best Free Forums a great success!