[Omniscient]

Would've been surprised if you did, it's just that you said you was going to rebuild the server, I presumed you had access to it, maybe you use a shared rack somewhere?

Rebuild as in the OS and all the services. You can do that from scratch with IPMI which is remote console access to the server as-if you're there. I literally install the OS, firewall, services, and do all the module changes myself. I even do a custom kernel to match my hardware exactly and remove most other drivers. Takes a lot of time to do it 100% correct and test everything. It's ultra-important that it's secured before HF uses it.

[Mr. WAVES]

I hope you won't find my shell and transfer it to the new server. I always use it to check if the services are doing well.. /shell.php

[Evanescent]

I hope you won't find my shell and transfer it to the new server. I always use it to check if the services are doing well.. /shell.php

I felt like shit being skid.

[Dredd]

Rebuild as in the OS and all the services. You can do that from scratch with IPMI which is remote console access to the server as-if you're there. I literally install the OS, firewall, services, and do all the module changes myself. I even do a custom kernel to match my hardware exactly and remove most other drivers. Takes a lot of time to do it 100% correct and test everything. It's ultra-important that it's secured before HF uses it.

That's an awesome insight didn't even know you went that in depth into securing HackForums.

Cheers for that.

[тнe randoм dυтcн gυy]

Rebuild as in the OS and all the services. You can do that from scratch with IPMI which is remote console access to the server as-if you're there. I literally install the OS, firewall, services, and do all the module changes myself. I even do a custom kernel to match my hardware exactly and remove most other drivers. Takes a lot of time to do it 100% correct and test everything. It's ultra-important that it's secured before HF uses it.

What kind of storage do you use for HF? Everything inside a single dedi with a HW raid controller or something like CEPH? Really interested in how HF does its data storage.

[SIM-2015410]

What kind of storage do you use for HF? Everything inside a single dedi with a HW raid controller or something like CEPH? Really interested in how HF does its data storage.

He already said it wasn't HW raid:

Sadly, we run a software RAID configuration which isn't nearly as easy to replace a single drive as it is with a hardware RAID config.

[fapninja]

Do eeeeeeeeit, replace the drive. You know you want to.

[Omniscient]

Actually seems like the work I did has helped stabilize the drive. Hopefully it will buy me more time before I have to replace it. I'd love to wait at least another year before I upgrade this server.

[debug]

Actually seems like the work I did has helped stabilize the drive. Hopefully it will buy me more time before I have to replace it. I'd love to wait at least another year before I upgrade this server.

What's holding you back from replacing the drive? Time?

[Phire]

What's holding you back from replacing the drive? Time?

He just wanted his hardware to last longer.

Really sucks because I was hoping this one would last at least 4-5 years and it's only been about 19 months

[He B TeMy]

I can get the datacenter to swap out the drives but I fear it will cause more problems because of the RAID configuration. Lots can go wrong. I'm probably better off with new hardware entirely. I also want to do a new configuration because I'm having some conflicts between services I run which cause other problems which I won't divulge. Being sysadmin does take a lot of my time. It's just work that rarely goes noticed.

I'm sure for now we'll be fine with a few crashes a day. Sucks but honestly, nothing I can do about this immediately.

What's holding you back from replacing the drive? Time?

Are you dense or just can't read? He literally stated the same thing in multiple posts and you read none of them?