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What do you mean by crashed? Did not boot ? a service crashed? 
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What do you mean by crashed? Did not boot ? a service crashed?

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It stopped working for 8 hours or so and then came back online. I asked the ISP if there was a service outage but there wasn't. The server stopped responding to SSH, FTP and HTTP/HTTPS.
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It stopped working for 8 hours or so and then came back online. I asked the ISP if there was a service outage but there wasn't. The server stopped responding to SSH, FTP and HTTP/HTTPS.

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It stopped working for 8 hours &nbsp;: was it shut-down ???<br />
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did you had to reboot the server ??<br />
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It stopped working for 8 hours  : was it shut-down ???


did you had to reboot the server ??





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Many thanks. The logs seem to be normal and people accessed the server using different ISPs when to me it was down. Therefore I deduce that this was an ISP routing &nbsp;problem.
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Many thanks. The logs seem to be normal and people accessed the server using different ISPs when to me it was down. Therefore I deduce that this was an ISP routing  problem.

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My server crashed last night and I don't know why. Could somebody talk me through the server log interrogation process?
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My server crashed last night and I don't know why. Could somebody talk me through the server log interrogation process?

Centos 5.4 Crashed for no reason. How do I find out why?

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