Turn the clocks back, turn the server forward

Wow, what a long, drawn out, confusing weekend that was.
It all started last week when I stopped receiving email. Zero. Zip. None at all. I mean, I generally get a few hundred junk mails a day — although last week, I had one day where I got 3,000 in an hour.
Anyway, email stopped working for no apparent reason. This meant a call to my friend Jann, since I have no clue what’s happening inside my little server. Since he was fixing it anyway, I figured it was time to update the server software, which was three versions old.
Well, after the update the mail barely worked at all, the server was gummed up and slow, things were nuts. N-V-T-S nuts.
So, plan B: completely wipe the server and start again, which I like to do every so often anyway.
Okay, so wipe, install fresh OS, and copy over the backed up stuff. After a very long night, email and web were back online… but the blogs, not so much.
Because updating the server OS meant that my 2-year-old blog software needed to be updated as well.
Hours later, around midnight on the last day of October, that software is finally working. I’m happy to say that despite all this frustration and screaming and pain, everything seems to be working and we didn’t lose anything!
Now, there might be a few things still left to fix here and there, but I’m sure people will complain if something is still broken.
So, a public thank you to Jann for spending the last three days pulling his hair out, taking out his frustrations over the server on my ear drums, and managing to get it working.
And welcome back! Did you miss me?