Yeah, the past few days have been a pretty low moment for me and this blog. Long story short, on December 11, a hard-drive failure took down the managed dedicated server which hosts my blog among other sites. ( The following image is a dramatization of actual events and is not the actual hard drive ) This is a server that Jeff Atwood and I share (we each host a Virtual Server on the machine), thus all of the following sites were brought down by the hardware malfunction: http://haacked.com/ http://codinghorror.com/ http://subtextproject.com/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/ http://fakeplasticrock.com/ That list doesn't include my personal Subversion server ( yes, I'm planning to switch to GitHub for that ). The good news is that my hosting provider...(read more) ...
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