Jabber server issues

As some people have noticed, the jabber.wiretrip.org jabber service is currently offline. The bad news is that the downtime is caused by hardware problems; the good news is that new hardware is here.

A few days ago, the RAID5 set that holds most of the data started spitting out SCSI errors.
One of the disks in the array is having hardware failures (bad sectors), in quite large numbers. As the amount of errors it's getting is higher than the bad sector table on the disk can hold, those errors are 'leaking trough' to the OS.
Linux doesn't seem to cope well with this, even while it's supposed to continue running normally. To avoid loss of data, and risk of more crashes, I've had to shut down a bunch of services - one of them being the jabber daemon. Fortunately no data is lost, and all accounts and state will be restored.
As the server I'm using has been in use 24/7 for most of the past 6-8 years (!), I've decided to replace it, and make it a secondary/fallback server for mail/dns, and possibly Jabber - it will be colocated in a different datacenter.

The jabber.wiretrip.org replacement box is being installed as we speak, and is much more powerful (a dual dualcore AMD opteron box with fast hotswap SATA disks in mirrored mode). I will be doing a basic install of the new machine tonight, and it will be moved to the data center to replace the old box start of next week (probably tuesday). In the weekend I'll be off to lowlands, so won't be able to finish setting up earlier.

Sorry for the inconvienience, and I hope to see you all back on a faster reinstalled jabber server as soon as it gets back online!