There's been this weird tendency for my servers to just _crash_. I have SSH connections to my craptop live at all time, and they're always running top... and sometimes the servers will just crash when there's nothing much happening on the server. It's just plain odd. The DB server just died one morning and the last top command I received back was absolutely normal.

Today the audiomatch (as well as the home.tabulas and forums.tabulas) server died for no particular reason for the first time since I got it. It's pretty depressing to not know what was wrong...

Here is a snippet of the trouble ticket ... this is what the technician is writing:

11/8/04 10:18:54 PM
DataCenter
your server has fell into a maintenance prompt requesting a manual fsck which is now being prepared, please standby

11/8/04 10:28:25 PM
DataCenter
your server is running a fsck at this time ,. .. i will monitor its status and report back as it becomes availible ..

11/8/04 11:23:10 PM
DataCenter
The server is still not back online. Investigating.

11/8/04 11:35:23 PM
DataCenter
The server is still not back online. sending to Investigating.

Can we say ... "duh?" Right now I wouldn't be surprised if the hard drive just blew up.

I finally wrapped up Lightbox7 work and passed it off the new owner and got the wire transfer; good thing cause my bank account was precariously close to $0. Now I have a bit more cash, but I'm still walking on the financial edge... it's scary.

I've been busting my ass on the other freelance project; I just wish this thing would get done so I could get paid for it and move on with my own personal projects. So far I'm almost done with the CP; I just got the new design down to HTML/CSS so it's a matter of tying down the CP with the interface now...

It's been a long few weeks. But let's hope it all wraps up soon.