At some point last night, there was an error on the file system on my server. MySQL shutdown and all websites that depend on it became inaccessible. It took only a couple hours to work with the support team to have my server restarted and the file sytem issue corrected.

I keep regular backups of all the data and none of the sites running on this box are mission critical, so I wasn’t really too concerned. One thing that was rather troubling, though, was the fact that I use my site as a redirector to my OpenID provider. If my blog is down, I can’t log in to some services. This is a troubling side effect to using OpenID.

One of my projects for this weekend will be to setup a monitoring system on my mac mini so I will be notified of any irregularities before they become a problem.