8
Nov
2006

Server Down

November 8th, 2006 at 03:11 pm by ashok in Web Hosting

Today when I login to internet, and try to access my site. I found it was not accessible. I then checked my another site it was also unaccessible. After that I try to download email but was unable to connect. To find the problem I visit my server control panel. It was also unaccessible. Whereas all other sites were opening and working properly. My one site which is still in shared hosting was also easily accessible.

I thought it is DNS problem of my ISP, I tried after 10 minutes still my server was not accessible. I tried to access my sites through proxy, site was still unaccessible, now it had been confirmed that my server was down.

I shoot an email to my hosting provider to know the reason of this outage. Several reasons pop up in mind, like my credit card is rejected, or some one has complainted to my host for spam. As I run membership sites with thousands of members, so people instead of unsubsribing find it easy to do spam complaints to unsubscribe.

I started making plan to shift host, and started thinking how much old backup of my database I have. For one site I have cron task to take backup, therefore fresh database of that site was available whereas for other sites my database was around 15 days old. So I thought If could not access my database it will be a big loss for me.

I swithed off my pc and went out to do some work. After about half an hour I again checked my sites, now they were accessible I took a sigh of releif. I logon to my control panel and checked server uptime it was 5 minutes, it means server was down and it is restarted 5 minute ago.

Later I get the response from my host of my email. It was a power outage which caused this downtime.

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