So, I wake up this morning, and then suddenly realize it’s a Monday.

I had a good weekend, got hammered on Saturday, Had a relaxing Sunday, of course Monday has to be bad, right?

So, back to the story… I wake up, hop on the computer to see how the UA Website is faring, only to find that every single one of the file mirrors are offline.

Every. Single. One.

This leaves 1 mirror up for server web content.

For those who don’t know, when you point your browser to www.unitedadmins.com, it picks one of 4 or 5 different servers. 4 of the 5 servers were down.

So, that means 4 out of 5 people came to IRC to whine about it this morning.

Now, I generally revel in other’s suffering, but when their suffering turns to whining, I get irritated and downright cranky. So I took it out on a few of the poor bastards.

Damn that felt good.

Anywho, I’ve been fighting with these servers all day. The people that host them for us are great people, and they’re giving their spare time, and spare bandwidth to us for absolutely nothing aside from a small blurb on the UA Mirror Network page, But this instability is killing me.

I need to start working on a ‘mirroring standards’ document for both file and website mirrors.

What I’m having a hard time figuring out, is why our main mirror, is so much more stable than the others. It has a ton of stuff running on it, and has little problem handling all the web server traffic too (file traffic is a different story).

bah, I’ll figure it out tomorrow.