In the very early morning hours yesterday, this site and many others suffered from a catastrophic hardware problem.

Rather, they succumbed to the finality of a problem that had been ongoing for quite some time.

Failing drive arrays be damned, the easiest way to explain it is to say this: The data storage failed after months of serving up increasingly bad results bundled in happy little boxes of completeness.

What that means is that all data on the server was lost.

Including this site amongst many others.

While I run regular backups of all the server’s information, this one apparently lied for quite some time by returning corruption wrapped up in good packets.

But I’m no technological fool.

Thankfully, when the entire server went belly-up yesterday, I had reliable information that allowed me to restore 99% of what was lost.

It’s that 1% that vexes me, as it’s that 1% that had been backed up for some time with corrupt data neatly packaged in unremarkable bits and bytes.

Still, it could have been worse.

Needless to say, this and many other sites are functioning at near-normal standards.  But there are hiccups and issues that must be addressed.

So I apologize for the outage yesterday while a new server was brought online and information restored.  I also apologize for any hiccups with this site that remain ongoing; they’ll be dealt with accordingly.

And while the old server had its limitations, the new one I purchased to replace it intentionally includes expanded capabilities that will allow me to do both offline and online backups at regular intervals.

Not that that means much to the layman.  But it means a great deal to me.

As for posts, I will get back to them as quickly as possible, but for now my focus is fixed in other directions—like returning full service to paying customers, returning all accounts to their pre-crash state, and ensuring this site finds its way back to functionality.

Various hiccups will be seen here over the next few days while I uninstall and reinstall services and systems, patches and code, and hopefully resolve the many yet minor outstanding problems resulting from yesterday’s crash.