Howto's, experiences and more

Well, I have been away for quite a while and a lot has happened since then. But it is time to start this blog up again to share knowledge and experience with you people out there.

The first thing i need to share my thoughts about is actually the crash of one of my servers.

The machine was running a native installation of RedHat, but it was a bit old already and it desperately needed replacement. So, up to a point, the raid controller decided to go bonkers and crash my server several times until i figured out that it was actually the controller at fault instead of the disks. And that is when you are actually facing a complete reinstall of your system.

Now to make lemonade from the lemons i got, I decided to go fancy and actually make it a virtual server implementation.

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