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Old 2010-11-01, 05:11 PM   #11
raymor
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Originally Posted by Nymph View Post
This may sound silly, but find out from your hosting company when the last time your server had a reboot.

I was having a similar issue not too long ago, where I couldn't even connect to my own sites. Seems it had been way too long since the last reboot. After they forced a manual reboot, I'm fly fine now.
Note, though, that if a reboot makes a problem go away, all you know is that
it will eventually come back, and now that the problem is temporarily gone,
it's virtually impossible to diagnose.

Personally, I'd much rather diagnose and fix a problem than wait until a user
bothers to email me about it and then reboot and hope it takes a while before
it happens again.

Servers, running network operating systems, should never need a reboot,
except when certain hardware has to be removed. We've had web servers
running years without a reboot. Hard drives and even PCI cards can
be changed out while the system runs.
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