Monthly Archives: August 2011

Harddrive replacement downtime

Posted on August 14, 2011 by independence

I got an email this morning saying one of the drives in the raid-z array had failed, so I’m going to have to replace that drive. Unfortunately Blinkenshell does not have some cool enterprise server with hot-swap drives so this … Continue reading →

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5 Year Anniversary!

Posted on August 8, 2011 by independence

Blinkenshell turns five years old this week, the domain name was registered on the 10th of August 2006. It’s a pretty long time for a shell provider, and I think Blinkenshell is better than ever. The community is slowly and … Continue reading →

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Server maintanance done

Posted on August 7, 2011 by independence

The server maintanance is now done, and it took even longer than I guessed. 10+ hours of software and hardware upgrades, and battling with software bugs. And there will probably be some issues left to resolve in the comming days. … Continue reading →

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Server maintanance 7th of August

Posted on August 2, 2011 by independence

As I said in my previous post, I’m going to take down Blinkenshell to upgrade the RAM and do the regular round of software upgrades. I’m going to take the server down at around 10.00 AM CET this Sunday (August … Continue reading →

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