Tuesday… Power to The People!
Jan 29th 2008PeterTech stuff
If any of you tried to look at the blog last night, you will have received an error message as the server was down for about 4 hours from 7pm.. In fact we had a power cut, just as we were about to go out for the evening. We do get brief interruptions to our electricity supply, usually caused by a sensitive main circuit breaker in the house, and we initially
thought that was the case yesterday – by the time we realised it was a local outage, the batteries on the Uninterruptable Power Supplies (UPS) that feed the server were running low and I had no option but to shut it down before firing up the generator – yes, the one I bought last year for just this eventuality!
Anyway, it started easily and operated the lights, central heating, as I wished, but because we were going out and leaving Rachael on her own, I didn’t want to risk loading it up more than I needed to, just in case something caused the generator breaker to trip, so the webserver remained off until we arrived home 3 hours later, when mains power was again available.
But it all performed exactly as I had planned, and as it had on test, so I was very pleased!
Incidentally, I notice from the statistics that I have made 100 posts in the “Getting my Life Back” category!
Onwards and upwards!
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