Servers Suck!
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2021 2:45 pm
Computer servers, not servers at restaurants.
The server I had for my home business had a breakdown. It did a Windows update and wasn't able to reboot afterwards for some reason. I replaced the harddrive a few years ago, switching from an actual drive to SSD, so I was able to go back to the original harddrive and boot from that, and I should be able to copy things off the data partition of the SSD, but it's a general pain in the ass. And to really fix the issue, I would need to get into the system settings of the server, but there's an issue where I won't be able to do that without spending $700+ or so to replace the motherboard of the server, since it seems the intelligent provisioning settings on the server somehow ended up getting hosed.
I bought a new microserver, with the plan being to set it up initially as a backup to the original server, then promote it and demote the original server. However, the new server has 4 drive bays, and they sent me 4 SSD drives with it, but each time I start it up, it only recognizes 2 or so of the drives. Which ones are recognized varies with each reboot, even if I never even touch the actual server. After spending half a day on the phone with tech support, they have no idea if it's a problem with the drive bays on the server or if it's a problem with the SSD drives themselves, or them not being compatible with the server. So right now, I have one old server that's limping along, and a new server that's so unreliable that I can only use it as a very big paper weight.
The server I had for my home business had a breakdown. It did a Windows update and wasn't able to reboot afterwards for some reason. I replaced the harddrive a few years ago, switching from an actual drive to SSD, so I was able to go back to the original harddrive and boot from that, and I should be able to copy things off the data partition of the SSD, but it's a general pain in the ass. And to really fix the issue, I would need to get into the system settings of the server, but there's an issue where I won't be able to do that without spending $700+ or so to replace the motherboard of the server, since it seems the intelligent provisioning settings on the server somehow ended up getting hosed.
I bought a new microserver, with the plan being to set it up initially as a backup to the original server, then promote it and demote the original server. However, the new server has 4 drive bays, and they sent me 4 SSD drives with it, but each time I start it up, it only recognizes 2 or so of the drives. Which ones are recognized varies with each reboot, even if I never even touch the actual server. After spending half a day on the phone with tech support, they have no idea if it's a problem with the drive bays on the server or if it's a problem with the SSD drives themselves, or them not being compatible with the server. So right now, I have one old server that's limping along, and a new server that's so unreliable that I can only use it as a very big paper weight.