Yeah, it’s speculation at this point anyways. I mean I’ve only ever seen webservers with a RAID. So one harddrive failure shouldn’t affect it too much. Then most people rent a VPS and that usually runs on some cluster. Even if a whole machine goes down, it’s supposed to come up again on some other machine automatically within a few minutes. And then you should have tech support of a big hosting provider answer within some timespan. I hope someone will write a summary of the events and link it somewhere. Maybe a lot of things went wrong. Or it’s some kind of error in the specific setup lemmy.ca did.
It wasn’t a hard drive failure but something more severe, since the remote console is non-responsive. I just called OVH to yell at them and press on the ticket, so hopefully should be resolved soon.
Yeah that’s usually how it’s supposed to work, but sometimes it doesn’t work properly for a variety of reasons.
Yeah, it’s speculation at this point anyways. I mean I’ve only ever seen webservers with a RAID. So one harddrive failure shouldn’t affect it too much. Then most people rent a VPS and that usually runs on some cluster. Even if a whole machine goes down, it’s supposed to come up again on some other machine automatically within a few minutes. And then you should have tech support of a big hosting provider answer within some timespan. I hope someone will write a summary of the events and link it somewhere. Maybe a lot of things went wrong. Or it’s some kind of error in the specific setup lemmy.ca did.
It wasn’t a hard drive failure but something more severe, since the remote console is non-responsive. I just called OVH to yell at them and press on the ticket, so hopefully should be resolved soon.