So yesterday the server went down due to a transformer blowing up in my parent's yard... it reset the router and CMOS settings on the server so I had to go out to deal with it since the box couldn't get on the network.

I hadn't planned to do anything Friday, but it was a day off and offended by the notion I MIGHT have wasted a day off more than I already would have I moved the server over here.

I decided to take advantage of the downtime and upgrade it to the latest major version of FreeBSD -- 8, we had been running the now deprecated 6.2 -- and clean up some oddities in how php was configured and how mysql and lighttpd started up.

I decided to do away with lighttpd altogether in favor of the current apache 2.2, because I have learned over time: there's really no slower or sillier way to run PHP than via FCGI.

Sometime soon I ought to use the last bit of elowel money to buy a UPS to prevent powerblips from interrupting the site's uptime altogether...

(Oh, and the server time should make sense henceforth.)