Back Up & Running
Posted by HokieTux on November 15, 2009 in News
So everything seems to be back up and running again.
I use Slicehost to host the server for this site as well as a few other things. Slicehost, as far as I’m concerned, is fantastic and I would recommend them to anyone (note: not affiliated – just a satisfied customer).
For the past few months, I have been unable to do any serious upgrades on my slice – everytime I attempted a system upgrade, my slice would not come back up after a reboot. In addition, every few weeks, my slice would crash altogether – weird filesystem stuff going on.
Anyways, I’ve been simply restoring from backups of my slice every couple of weeks for the last few months to keep the site alive until I could find time to fix the problem, whatever it was. Turns out the problem was that I simply wasn’t using the Slicehost Manager properly. I had completely missed a little tab where you specify a kernel for your slice:
Slicehost Manager Kernel Tab
Simply setting this to the appropriate kernel, allowing the reboot, and then doing a system upgrade fixed everything, hah. So it goes.
Well, that said, I still need to post some new content. I have some good ideas for a few posts… I just need to find the time =)
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