TechFox Rant: Lost my main server today ;n;
7 years ago
General
Life without fluffiness is just so incredibly... Just a small little rant because I'm not having the best of days when it comes to my stuff. I actually lost my main server to a data crash which happened yesterday. I'm rebuilding it right now, but that's a couple of hours of frustration I didn't need today.
Sorry for this stupid journal, I just wanted to write down my own frustration. there's so much I'd rather be doing right now ;n;
The Data crash was my own fault, which is why I'm equally mad at myself. For anyone with technical knowledge who wants to know what happened:
I currently have a single server which has a copy of unRAID installed on it. unRAID is usually used for file storage using pools of Hard Drives, but also has the added benefit of being a Hypervisor for Virtual Machines. A Virtual Machine is simple a "Software" PC, which the Host OS (In this case, unRAID) shares it's resources with the Virtual Machine. My server PC has 32 GB of RAM installed in it, and the main Windows Server, since it hosts a whole flurry of game servers, I gave it 2 physical PC cores with Hyperthreading, and 20GB of RAM. Alongside that one, I have a Virtual Machine which handles my Webserver, and another which I will not disclose it's use (( Security reasons )). Those use up more RAM also.
What happened was, I accidentally created a new VM, mostly for hosting a copy of Linux Mint to do some testing with, and I gave that VM too much RAM, causing it to overflow it's ram, and to save itself, force shut off the VM with the most RAM, which was my Windows Server VM. So it crashed my Windows Server badly.
So now, I'm resetting my entire server. On the plus side, all the junk that was installed is now gone x3
Sorry for this stupid journal, I just wanted to write down my own frustration. there's so much I'd rather be doing right now ;n;
The Data crash was my own fault, which is why I'm equally mad at myself. For anyone with technical knowledge who wants to know what happened:
I currently have a single server which has a copy of unRAID installed on it. unRAID is usually used for file storage using pools of Hard Drives, but also has the added benefit of being a Hypervisor for Virtual Machines. A Virtual Machine is simple a "Software" PC, which the Host OS (In this case, unRAID) shares it's resources with the Virtual Machine. My server PC has 32 GB of RAM installed in it, and the main Windows Server, since it hosts a whole flurry of game servers, I gave it 2 physical PC cores with Hyperthreading, and 20GB of RAM. Alongside that one, I have a Virtual Machine which handles my Webserver, and another which I will not disclose it's use (( Security reasons )). Those use up more RAM also.
What happened was, I accidentally created a new VM, mostly for hosting a copy of Linux Mint to do some testing with, and I gave that VM too much RAM, causing it to overflow it's ram, and to save itself, force shut off the VM with the most RAM, which was my Windows Server VM. So it crashed my Windows Server badly.
So now, I'm resetting my entire server. On the plus side, all the junk that was installed is now gone x3
FA+

Nothing was lost and you fixed it super fast! It’s a favour you do for us it’s not something you should have to apologize for <3
PS. Love seeing technical posts like this. Gah I’m too involved in IT
But you and I alike, too deep into IT, and love technical stuffs x3