Seb Duggan

This morning, I couldn’t reach my web server. Dead. Nothing.

I contacted my server company, who very quickly diagnosed that the server had blue-screened; they rebooted it and all is now well. Looking at my web logs, I think it was down for about an hour – not disastrous, but definitely inconvenient and not A Good Thing. (Note to self: set up a monitoring service so I know when it’s down!)

So I started looking at the system logs to see if I could find what caused it to crash. And there was a big clue, right in front of me.