That was a hard day yesterday. I woke up in the morning to find out that the server my blog is on is down.

I talked to a friend of mine that also has his servers hosted at Hetzner and got the information that the provider wrote an e-mail some days ago that they will add UPS to the server room and that the admins have to stop their machines due to a power down caused by the change.

I am not the admin of the server but a friend of me that left to Turkmekistan (I hope that it is written that way) last weekend. So I did not have that information.

After calling my friend and getting username and password of the Hetzner robot I called the technician of our provider. He checked our machine and realized that the hardware was broken and he will change it. It took some minutes and he called back saying that the hardware is changed but that rock is not finding the network card.

I booted to the rescue system and took a lot of time to check what was wrong and recompile the kernel with tulip drivers that were missing.

After a reboot (my adrenaline was at 150% during the reboot (we do not have an automatic reset only a manual that takes a lot of time to be triggered) (we need a hardware reset to start the rescue system)) everything was back to normal.

That was the story of pallas aka www.esden.net … the pure adrenaline 😉