Outage from about 22:00 EDT (02:00 UTC) last night ran until about 15:50 EDT (19:50 UTC) this afternoon. Let's go over what I have now as to why:
Some storms moved through the Cincinnati area last night, the connection to the server went out around 21:30-22:00. Service came back up at about 23:00 EDT. However, there was not access to the server itself - no known cause.
When Lee arrived home at about 01:00, he rebooted the servers, things seemed to be running. By about 02:00, things had gone out again.
At 10:00 EDT this morning, I tried getting to the servers, but everything was hung up. I contacted Lee to get things running.
At about 11:30 EDT, a major fiber line was cut in Central Ohio, and I lost my ability to access the internet.
At about 12:00, Lee restarted the web server again and brought the website back on line. However, the DB server had blocked the server because of too many errors.
At about 15:45, I contacted AT&T and found out about the fiber cut (I had talked to them earlier about my connection problems, they had no known cause at the time, but filed a trouble ticket). They informed me how to use (brace yourselves if you're not sitting down) dial-up to access the 'net, as there was no ETA for the repair.
I restored DB access for the server, changed some load settings for apache, and brought things back on line. As of the time of this post (16:00/20:00 UTC), RS is back to normal. Sorry about the much longer delay than was anticipated - but someone other than me caused it Wink
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Bryan
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