The Fan. If you remember I installed this industrial sized fan into acme to keep him cool. The fan lasted only a week. When I removed it on Monday, I was suprised at the damage. One blade has 'fallen off' completly. Look closely at the middle - see the circular burnmark?

The sticker has been so hot it actually shrunk and looks half melted. The server co-location room this server is in regurlarly keeps a temperature of 26 degrees celcius - their cooling fans are in the ceiling and twenty feet away from my machine. Not to mention
that the all steel cabinets [mine has no doors] are preventing airflow and hosting another hundred hot servers that are all spewing out hot air with their fans.
The air in the room does not move. Airflow, anyone?

The server is in Webpartners
co-location. If I were you - I would not even consider hosting here. The
one year contract I unfortunatly signed does state "cooling and
electricity included" but to them, above twenty degrees is perfectly
acceptable, and that the voltage drops whenever the big fans kick in
seems to not bother them. They have suggested that my Kelvin server -
made by the fellars at Southpole
who supply the Royal Technical Highschool KTH
with servers - is "not a good machine". This is their
standard reply to any customer that complains about the heat in the
serverroom. I have found at least three other customers that got the
same reply, ironically enough, one of them was using the same kind of
HP server webpartner themselves use.
My machine has a problem then apparantly. So I have a
server with a hot Athlon CPU in it, three built in fans, two scsi disks
[which also get hot], in the top shelf of a metal cabinet, above several
other servers, in the back behing two other rows of shelves that contain
other servers. The air in front of my machine does not move and poor acme
sucks in 25 something degree air in a desperate attempt to cool the machine
down.
but it's not the heat they say. Any ideas of what
else made an industrial sized fan melt in such short a time? Whats your
guess? That webpartner is full of shit? funny, thats the same as
mine.

I'm so tired of CRAPPY ISP's - I have yet to find
a good , friendly, economically vaible and reliable one. After reporting
my old one to the Dutch Computer Police
[after their so-called 'Linux guru' logged into my machine as root and deleted
every single user on the machine, one at a time with 'userdel' (some guru
huh?) - and then claimed "hackers had done it"] I thought
-I hoped - I might get a break on the bad bad IPS's from the karma gods.
Apparantly not. What really gets to me, is that I give a shit. I care so fucking muc about all them little emails from people missing my site, frustrated visitors out there give me anything from a worried mail to a whole bag of shit as soon as the machine is down.
It is my responsibility to keep the machine alive. The people I pay for cooling and hosting don't cool. and then the machine dies, taking my only income with it. damaging my reputation. sending my traffic elsewhere. Fuck. all i can do is watch it happen. Trust me, I have complained [first complaint logged only a few weeks after moving in february]. In fact today, he didn't wanna talk to me anymore as I have reached the point of upsetness that I can only scream.