Under the category of working too fast, today's downtime was brought to you by me.
I've been working an issue with mail and in trying to check on things, one of the recommendations was that I install the MS06-040 Patch. I 've checked for viruses and trojans, but haven't seen anything. So I decided to apply the patch and clicked the "reboot later" button at the end. However in logging off, I clicked "shutdown" by mistake, since I'd just patched a couple other boxes that aren't supporting the site.
Needless to say things immediately started going down. Fortunately there was a delay while the patches were applied in shutdown and while I'm a little far from the colocation center, I started driving and made it pretty quickly. My guess is we were down about 30 minutes, but hard to tell from the logs.
So, even if you know what you're doing. Move slowly and be sure everything is done correctly. I know better and still make the mistake by clicking a little quickly.
OK, it's been a long time since I made an entry here, mostly because I've been busy and keep forgetting to get here in between all my other writing.
Life has been busy here at SQLServerCentral.com as we try to upgrade the email system, build the training business, and see what other pies we can stick our fingers into. We've made some investments on the site for the next year and we want to try and really grow the business this year while trying to keep ourselves as part of the community as possible. The profit motive is there, but we want to continuie to be true to the community.