I apologize for the several hours during which the greyduck.net webserver and its entertaining contents were unavailable. It looks like Cacti went haywire… something I thought I’d cured for good the last time I ran into the problem, but I was clearly mistaken. So much for pretty monitoring graphs. Cacti is nuked. Again.

One thing did give me an extra moment of panic after Infinity Internet bounced the server: Apparently, during initial setup of this server, I never got around to configuring MySQL for automatic startup at boot time. Hey, the machine has only been rebooted three times since I was handed the keys; this is the first reboot in almost exactly a year.

Now I’m going to attempt relaxation after a bit more than three solid hours of being a raving stressmonkey…