When I started blogging a friend of mine offered to host my blogs on his server. Since I have a couple blogs I’m definitely saving money by his kind donation.
That got me thinking about servers. I’m really lame in the technology department and have no understanding beyond the screen I’m typing on. So I start imagining what a server must be like. In my imagination a server is a giant, archaic looking machine in someone’s basement. It requires oil in the cogs to run smoothly, and has a steam pipe on top where puffs of smoke come out.
In my logical brain however, a server is not a machine at all. It’s an invisible virtual space floating around where several websites reside. It’s hard to imagine that entire corporations exist on a server, and if that server crashes the entire corporation is at a standstill. Come to think of it, if my friend ever got pissed at me and decided to pull the plug, that would be the end of my blogs as I know it!!
How does a server crash anyways? The imagination side of me is convinced that someone forgot to go in the basement and oil the machine. Similar to a car engine seizing. I can’t wrap my head around an inanimate object seizing or crashing. I just know that I don’t think there’s insurance for an accident like that.
I never knew when I started blogging, how addicting it would become. So much that when our serve DID go down once I felt like I’d lost a limb or two!
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