Holiday 2023 Outage Post-Mortem
In the days leading up to the end of 2023, zlg.space's primary hard drive
began having errors and locking up the entire server. It began with simple
unresponsiveness, and ended in a replacement drive, new OS, and a bumpy road
of /opt self-compiled madness to bring the backup to the modern ages of PHP.
The server is now on bigger, faster storage and an OS that won't get in the way
if/when it breaks again, but it didn't come without an arduous test of patience.