The good news, (well, as good as I can get today) is the new hardware is on order (newegg to the rescue!). The bad news is I run back ups on the weekends, so posting-wise we're back to Sunday the 25^th.

To get the site back up, I had to run a cable from the basement to the living room. For maybe the first time *ever*, I wired both ends of an RJ-45 cable right in one try (amazing!). I'll use this as an excuse to upgrade to the latest version of CentOS, Tomcat 6.x, and Firebird 2.x and slip in some much faster hardware...The “bottleneck” is still going to be the network connection you will probably not see much difference.

So far, the site has gone through 3 motherboards and CPU's, 3 hard drives, (now) 2 power supplies, 1 UPS (lightning last year – one stike zapped the UPS and 2 motherboards), and of all things – 1 video card. It sounds like a lot of stuff, but it's all been “odds-and-ends” hardware that I've had for a long time. The power supply that went out yesterday, for example, started life in a computer I built in 2002 (in grad school). 7 years of almost non-stop operatation is not too shabby for a 400w power supply, eh? (lol – it's an Antec – I recommend them...I use Asus motherboards, too...Still looking for trustworthy, affordable UPS's, though)
 

So, I guess you could say I've got an “infrastructure project” of my own to work on!!!