Most hosting companies would probably want to keep any server fails they suffer as quiet as possible. Instead, we want to share this one with you because, truth be told, we're quite proud of it.
On Friday afternoon, one of our hosting servers failed. To be more accurate, its disk had failed. There was no major problem because we had recovered everything to a fresh server within half-an-hour.
With the recovery process complete, we could start to reflect on the server failure... and we soon realised we couldn't really hold a grudge against the offending piece of hardware.
Before its disk failure, the server had been working hard for us for an incredible 2,629 days in a row. That is more than 7 years of continuous, diligent service. An amazing effort.
The disk turned at 15,000 revolutions per minute throughout those 7 years. At a disk revolution of 30cm, we worked out that the disk had travelled a total of 17,035,920km across its lifespan.
So, we decided that a server disk that had clocked up more than 17 million kilometres in revolutions and had served us so well for so long was probably entitled to a rest.
If that's the sort of service you want from your server, find out about our hosting and cloud services.
