server down “without reason”

Question

I have a Lenny dedicated server at Hivelocity.

My server went down today. They doesn't know why. I don't know why. MTRG shows 7Mbps before went the server goes offline, ddos not probably.

Hardware failure? maybe. but now is running ok.

hacked? maybe. lastlog, md5sum, rkhunter, syslog and auth.log seems ok.

my load is always between 0.02 and 0.3, the server runs a small website but with 2million pageviews/day and never failed before.

Where can I find more information in my logs? where I start looking?

Answer 1

This sounds more like a Hardware problem. You could also ask the Support Team if it was a power problem and somehow their failsafe system didn't kick in.

Answer 2

You should look at message (which includes kernel messages) log in /var/log to see if anything in the log before reboot (well next bootup) kern.log can also give a clue.