One of my Linux servers crashed last night. Well, I’m not sure if it crashed for sure, it could be that the power supply has gone bad. When I try to start it, the computer powers up then just about when it seems that the disks have spun up, the power cuts and everything goes dark.

The machine that havig issues is my oldest and is a dual 300MHz celeron machine running Caldera eServer 2.3, which I installed just before starting on the engineering team there in late 1999 (it’s hard to believe how fast time flies or how old this machine is!). Quite old but it still functions well (er…used to anyway). One of the big problems is that this server was my DNS server as well as my mail server and hosted three web sites still. I was in the (overly long) procesess of moving services to virtual0.mecworks.com which currently hosts several virtual hosts and is running SuSE 9.2. It’s an 800MHz PIII which is perfect for a server that doesn’t do much but answer DNS lookups, email and spit out web pages.

So, I am planning today to get a new power supply to see if that is the problem, if not, sadly, it’s time to build another machine.

My intent was to transition all services off the older server, and rebuild it as a MythTV backend. So, we’ll see where this project leads me. The speed at which I’m transisioning services to the newer machine just may have increased quite a bit.