Well, it wasn't my fault this time. Last time the site went down like this it was just after I posted a new avatar with myself in it, I'll never do that again, I promise!
So you have a face that breaks web servers? First I'll have to change my answer to who the best looking ADTr is and second, we need to harness that power for good...
people we need a list of message boards that poor jacco can destroy with his silicone-melting bad looks.
The external drive array on the database server overheated and went into thermal shutdown mode. It figures that when we leave town the daily high temps go from the mid-teens to the low 40s. We have the servers in a small room that requires a window to be opened when temps get to be 35+.
Drew, you could get one of those ventilator fans that closes automatically when it is off (like the one in my kitchen wall) and rig it with a thermostat set to trigger at some appropriate temperature.
Nope! That´s why these "pet" manufacturers ship their gadgets with clear environmental specification a customer has to follow!
e.g. HP Temperature Range Operating 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C) (No direct sustaining sunlight) Storage (up to one year) -40° to 158° F (-40° to 70° C)
I actually have a ceiling vent fan that's on 24/7 pulling warm air out of the room. It's undersized appearantly. I'm beginning to think a good climate control system would be cheaper than replacing cooked computer parts.
i've looked into colo pricing a number of times in the past. for the number of sites we host, the bandwidth we use and the email accounts we handle it's far more cost effective to host our own stuff. we use about 18GB a day in bandwidth these days. i try to keep spare servers ready as well. if I had to colo the spares too it could get very expensive.
the pricing is even worse when I looked to outsource our hosting needs. go out and get a quote for a MS SQL server running quad processors, dual U320 RAID arrays, DLT backup service, 4 GB RAM on Windows 2003 64Bit, and roughly 10 GB of SQL data stored across a handful of databases. that system alone would break the budget.
Have you looked at AMD lately? They have some nice options that won't break the bank. I think HP is coming out with a new Blade server with an fx55 90nm chip that should help out. but with your server load you may need opterons.
anandtech had some nice tutorials but I think they are kinda out of date.