While trying to fix some things, the power went out in the house. The data center remained powered on, except the ISP CPE router.

I've been meaning to find a little UPS I can plug it into, but this happens so infrequently, and its power cycle is pretty quick, so really the only reason I'd want one is brown-out protection.

I was working to restart the database server that's been hiccuping recently. I've moved a number of its databases, like this blog and others, to the big server, in independent databases. I haven't moved them all. Just before I woke this morning, the old database server ticked off again. When it does this, it also tends to freeze one of the Apache servers, as it serves a little PHP script that accesses a database, but doesn't seem to correctly time-out. When enough of these requests wait for infinity, the Apache server runs out of workers and stops responding to new requests.

So I set in to move one of the other databases before the house got rolling too much. Suddenly, the screens without batteries went dark, the light in the corner turned off, the one awake kiddo grumbled, and the UPSs started beeping. The outage lasted just a handful of seconds, and the lights popped back on. I had just enough time to grab my phone and walk toward the basement, but hadn't opened the door yet. I waited a few moments and the phone reported the Internet had returned.

I think I have a little UPS that might work. Not sure if its battery is sound. Might take that to Batteries Plus today and see if they'll check it for me, maybe have a replacement.