Tonight is unravelling into the worst night ever.

Upon return from an evening of relaxation and farewells (as well as interesting ramblings by yours truly after drinking coffee with Joanne and Nasty Nate), I find the main NPServers.com is dead. No big deal; the server locks up from time to time. So I send in a reboot ticket... and I wait.

And I wait some more. My nonchalance turns a mild worry ... until I get a message from the datacenter (DC): "Your server's kernel panics upon reboot. You will need a reimage."

Greeaaattt.

So after a furious exchange of e-mails between me and my DC, we decide the best thing to do is reimage a new hard drive, and mount the old hard drive as a slave drive; at least this way the data isn't lost.

I then brightly (and by brightly, I mean really really stupidly) decide RIGHT NOW WOULD BE THE BEST TIME TO BUY A NEW SERVER!! Yeah! No planning or anything! Not like I have anything like DNS involved or anything.

Let me backtrack here for a second. DNS is the method in which the Internet knows that Tabulas.com should resolve to a server at IP address 207.44.144.39. The main issue with DNS is that it's very very very slow to upgrade. And also, I haven't worked with DNS in almost two years. So any changes I make might not be magnified until later (lovely).

But here's the kicker: The DC *completely* screws up the order for the new server. I basically give up about 6 hours after trying to get the thing set-up. So now I'm back to plan A, which is to set-up the new server ... I quickly go back to my domain registrar and try to stop the DNS changes I implemented.

In any case, I think everything is back. But now a ton of my sites are down (and NeoPages.net sites, too).

It's Murphy's Law... to the max. I'm totally exhausted right now ... I think I'll finally sleep. I hope I didn't screw up anything on the DNS too much.