Power Problems
Well, the power supply in my “server” finally went south and took the site offline for a week and a half. Should have been proactive and purchased a new one ahead of time. But of course that only was the first thing that went wrong.
Swapping the power supply was not as easy as I had hoped. The newer one packed 50 more watts so the manf was nice enough to change the MB connector. They really shouldn’t be allowed to call it an ATX power supply if the connector is different; I’m a firm believer in a change in form/fit/function = change in naming/numbering. Anyways, the new connector has an additional 4 pins on it. Now they were nice and notched the connector so that it would be backwards compatible. However they didn’t take into consideration MB manf who place small caps next to the power input connector. The work-around: bend the caps. I was able to bend them far enough that the connector makes contact. Just don’t bump the case or it may loose power.
Then if that wasn’t enough when I brought the server back up, a number of daemons didn’t want to start including mysqld. And with a database-driven website, if the database doesn’t work neither will your website. Turns out “bind=127.0.0.1″ was set in my.cnf. Commenting that out allowed mysqld to start. Now I don’t believe mysql has been updated recently so I’m questioning my recent kernel upgrade as I’m still having problems with a couple of other daemons and it just so happens that they are network related ones…
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