Tag Archive for 'hosting'

New harddisks

Yesterday our two new 80GB harddisks (Western Digital) arrived and we wanted to switch our system to use them. So I stopped all services, made a system halt and put the new disks in there. Additionally we wanted to have a software RAID to get a redundant system. But the two disks didn’t like to do what we wanted them to do - to boot from them… Continue reading ‘New harddisks’

New hardware, new Ubuntu release, new wordpress plugin

This week our server broke down. The harddrive made sounds like hammering their heads against the disc - which of course is not good. So we had to find another harddisk. Fortunately I had kind of a spare computer at home which has a lot more harddisk space available (60GB instead of the poor 30GB drive we had). So we switched to this computer. Continue reading ‘New hardware, new Ubuntu release, new wordpress plugin’