Angier.co.uk was down for about 12 hours today due to a blown power supply. I hope it didn’t inconvenience anyone!

Since my server is about 200 miles away from where I now live, and I didn’t truly know the nature of the problem, I was relieved to find a friend of mine (Roy) was in the vicinity. Roy kindly popped around to Maplin, bought and then fitted a new power supply for me, and we are now back in action.

Thanks very much Roy, you’re a star!

The web site is now being hosted on a colocated server in a full blown data center, air conditioning, generators, etc.! This is a side effect of having a dedicated machine for Lands of Stone. Also, it relieves some of the bandwidth on my poor ADSL link.

Angier.co.uk is now being hosted on a nice new server. It is a bottom of the range Duron 1.1GHz with 128Mb RAM and 40G Hard disk. Compared with the old server (100MHz Cyrix, 32Mb RAM, 2G HDD), it is a major boost and only set me back £219.

The transition was totally painless, and parts of the site such as http://gallery.angier.co.uk now get served before you can fall asleep!

For the full spec…