Posted on January 12, 2010
Virtualizing and Disaster Testing a Linux Server
Since the mercury has decided to go hiding completely in that tiny little ball it calls home apparently my small but dedicated webserver has decided to freak out and take a small hibernation period itself. I think the NIC is going bad — every few days it would take down my whole network. Pulling the network cable from the router brought everything ELSE back up, and the machine seemed to reboot and work fine once I put the keyboard and head back on, but then, a few days later, same problem.
So, I’ve decided to do away with the older desktop hardware that I keep replacing and re-purposing and move to a virtual machine on my media center PC. That’s the short version — read on for the painfully long version.