Server downtime

October 30, 2009 - Filed in Inside the company by Felix

Our server's hardware began to fail this morning at 7am. At least Linux decided at that point, that it'd be a good idea to remount the server's root filesystem read-only to prevent data corruption.

Now lacking the ability to write to disk, the website's database was no longer able to save incoming support inquiries and contact form messages and the mail server couldn't store any new emails, either.

Therefore, please resubmit any support inquiry and resend any mails you sent between October 30th 2009 07:00 GMT+1 and October 30th 2009 15:30 GMT+1, if you don't receive a reply within the next few days.

If you accessed the IOSPIRIT website during the downtime, you got to see a static HTML page informing you about the reason and linking to @IOSPIRIT for more information. Yes, IOSPIRIT is using Twitter and you can follow me here.

Last but not least, I'd like to send a huge THANK YOU to our hosting partner Hetzner Online, who have replaced the server hardware in record time. Their service has been truly exceptional over the past years and they haven proven it once more this time. If you're looking for a dedicated server in Germany, I can strongly recommend them.