The server system was scheduled for an upgrade today. It should really be a trivial matter of switching the router and doing some re-configuration of the server box.
What started as a good upgrade giving a tripled upstream speed to better serve everybody soon became a misery.
For some reason I was unable to connect remotely after the router switch although it should have been pre-configured to match the appropriate TCP/IP settings.
Since I was unable to connect remotely I got a technician to connect a monitor and a keyboard as the server is about 700 kilometer away from me. The thing is, the login didn't respond to any of the usernames or passwords. Okay, so we figured a reboot might be in order, as the possibility exist that it is simply completely frozen. And then it got to fsck of hda, the primary disk drive. And it errored miserably, without being able to continue booting.
So now I've moved several sites, including secure-my-email.com and secure-my-internet.com over to another server, so they are operating as they should. This is actually something I've considered doing for some time, so maybe a little push was good, although I would prefer it to be somewhat nicer than this one.
I also got the mail system up on a secondary server, so no emails are lost. Sadly though kfwebs.net depend on MySQL 5.0 as well as some custom-written User Defined Functions(UDF), so without a rewrite it won't run on the other server too easily. Thankfully thanks to Myles ( myleshenderson.com ) I got access to a server that had MySQL 5.0 and hence I got up the website and it will reside there temporarily until I get my own server configured.
