It might be a bit obvious now, but my coldandheartless server died a painful death last week. I finally got around to seeing if I could fix anything and found that the system drive had completely failed. I tried rescuing files from the drive and it didn’t work. The good news is that I had the webpages on a separate disk which was still fine. So I could copy all of those files to my new server. Unfortunately, my wordpress database was not backed up (my bad) and I was unable to restore any of the files. The good news is that I did find one old backup (from sometime in 2008) that I could use to get back some of my posts. So there is now about a two-year gap in the blog. Oh well. Lesson learned. Now, I have to devise a new backup scheme. I haven’t yet decided how to do it, but I’m sure I’ll come up with something.

The new coldandheartless is actually a mac mini server. I bought it to play around with and there is really no better way to learn how things actually work than to put it in production. I got wordpress installed and put all my old files on it. I have mail working and ssh, so I have my basics. As time goes on, I’ll have to see what else I can do with it. My first impressions aren’t that great. It doesn’t seem that much easier to set up than a linux box, but it definitely cost more. Though, I’m sure the more I use it, the more comfortable I’ll get.

Now, off to write a new wordpress backup script…