California Power Outage May Take diglloyd.com Mail Server Offline
I live in 3rd-world country which can’t keep feces off the streets or maintain public health or keep the power on or create a viable policy to incentivize housing, but has billions for a bullet train to nowhere. Also known as California.
UPDATE 27 Oct 19:32: power is out and likely to stay out for another 24 hours. Winds are violent and PG&E is not taking any changes—updated from the Eastern Sierra via ssh.
Update 28 Oct 20:34: see Oct 28 post.
Pacific Gas & Electric may cut power in my home area for up to 48 hours starting today. TBD—the warnings are vague and non-specific but have been happening in California.
While this web site is not affected (housed in tier 1 server room elsewhere), the diglloyd.com mail server and git servers may go offline after exhausing their battery backups.
That means that contact emails may be undeliverable for a day or two. I might manually check for subscriptions at PayPal, but I will be forced to do manual responses using some other mail account.
Nor will I be able to update my web sites, with the git server also down.
On my to-do list is re-architecting where/how I do my mail and git servers.
I was going to head home by Monday, but hell, if I cannot have electricity, I might as well stay in the field in my van, where I have a 10 kilowatt battery system in my Sprinter van.
