[The Starport News]Recent Downtimes: Another HDD Failure

Moonhead wrote:
Much appreciated that you got it in the air again!

So, the https thing had nothing to do with it?

I think HTTPS support here was largely a case of putting Cloudflare in front of the web server. Cloudflare was fine, the HDD problem was in normal the web server.

Yeah, completely coincidental. This isn’t the first time Hetzner’s given us a shitty HDD, let’s hope this new “enterprise” drive fares better.

happens
I had 4 HDD crashes in just 3 years on my webserver.
Running 24/7 with lots of data isnt healthy to drives.

For gods sake there is Raid

It’s great that this time it wasn’t a bad guy that did nasty things, but I hope it will not happen every 3 years, HDDs are meant to live 5 years for Google, and they works at their max level. If it happens once again you should buy a “Durability HDD” if this technology has improved, but it remains hard to tell when HDD will die. Mine is still running after nearly ten years despite the fact it’s a Packard Bell OEM HDD (it’s a Western Digital).

sometimes its just bad luck

RAID 1, hot-swap, etc?

EDIT: Hetzner from time to time gives bad drives…
Obviously need to check S.M.A.R.T. and fight with support

Yeah, I largely blame Hetzner. Drives should last for way longer than this, but they’re probably just slotting in used drives instead of fresh ones. Hopefully the “enterprise” drive is actually enterprise-rated and lasts longer.

w0d already checks SMART, but that won’t tell you how far away it is from failing, just when it’s already started failing.

I’d suggest a RAID schema if RAID didn’t stand for Really Asinine Investment in Disks. Thanks for some tips on what drives to look for in the future. With 5 drives on my system @ 15.5 TB I feel like I should buy stock in Newegg.

@ w0dk4
Besides the gateway errors I emailed you about I was surprised to find the download and wiki page came up okay.

Here the whole site just came up. Thanks.

Wirdest thing ever like we use site to get server load high
I dont think HC FL server uses HDD so much to get drives down…

Ah ! That was the reason I recently had some weird problem with the search engin !

I hope the site will not get other downtime, it’s really annoying…

Where do the bots can come from ?

w0dk4 wrote:
Actually, the most traffic these days is caused by search engine bots crawling our site…

Even dunno… Sysctl for highload servers or you have windoze for all your things?

What ? Google is using bots ? Ow… I ignored that… ¬>¬
Thx for the explanation !

Off topic :
@ Helloween : I hope I understood what you were implying.
Everybody doesn’t have the will and the knowledge to get working a free os like Linux. Windows is the most common OS that has the biggest amount of software and moreover I hate linux only software. Recently, I wanted to use a SRGAN AI picture upscaler to see its behavior but it always turns in coding and linux/mac distributed software to make it working. I really don’t understand how to use it without learning linux. I don’t understand how Gits are working on windows.

oh so this was the anavar Review reason i was having problem with serach engin and what about bots where they come from

For additional euros i see ssd and ever nvme…

w0dk4 wrote:
hey guys,

you might have wondered why TSP was down in the last 24 hours. I moved the server to new hardware (more RAM and faster CPU) so that’s why

cheers

Cool Keep it up!