My server died, and what I am calling my server was a nearly 10-year-old PIII desktop, which I turned into a server.

It was in bad shape, it was breaking down when we REPLACED IT. Either the ram was messed up, or the motherboard was hanging by a thread, but while I was at Waterloo it finally just turned off and didn't turn back on.

So this was kinda a win win, we got my aunt a new compu, a good one. I got her old dell. I know, it is a dell, but it is still like, 3 times better than the old server. I think the old specs were 1 GHz, 1GB of RAM?, blah blah OLD AS CRAP. Nuff said.

It took a long time to get this shit into the dell, hard drive transfer almost worked, until I tried to update to SP2 on Windows 2003 server, then the network connections DISAPPEARD, and all hell broke loose on the machine.

I copied the drives, because the old C: was 10GB! LOL, yeah I needed to swap them because Windows wouldn't fit on it, I didn't have anything else on it. So I used this Paragon Disk Backup software to copy partitions. After copying the partition 3 times and trying to fix it, I decided to just reinstall everything. It wasn't bad, it's just that from my limited knowledge of MySQL tables, my sites got FUCKED UP.

So they did get fucked up. I was just copying over the data files from the mysql installs over, which is baaaad. bad bad. So I decided to learn how to dump the tables (lol, no so much learn, but figure out the command). So I popped in my old drive (thank you for being to small, if I had to wipe you I would be dead!), dumped the tables, put the newer one in, ran the script, BAM, everything works like a charm.

I can't be happier.

Much faster machine. Quieter. MUCH MUCH more efficient. Fresh install, with me actually knowing how to configure everything. This shit runs smoooth now and everything. Got a new CCProxy. Running a DC++ Server, join it; address is: dcpp.lanowen.com

And that is that. this took 3 fucking days.

I am going to bed.

I am lighting.