[cobalt-users] Server Down, My fault?

[PyschoCotic@xxxxxxx]

My server is completely down, not even responding to web requests....  
Control panel unaccessable, FTP -- Slow, Telnet -- Extremely slow.

I was trying to figure out if it was my fault or what.  Heres what I did and 
I know it was stupid...  I setup over 85 domain names along with site admins 
for each...  Then I copied files from an old server into each sites web 
directory.

When a site admin FTPed, he couldn't CHMOD because when I copied the files I 
copied them as root.  So I went back and used CHOWN on every file in 
/home/sites -- which did mess up the directory structure and FTP.  I couldn't 
figure out what was wrong so I CHMOD some files and messed things up even 
more.  I finally got things back up and running after a couple hours of work 
(things were working) and then all of a sudden the server started choking up 
and failing again.  The web access went down and FTP went really slow.  So 
now i'm doing a restore and will be doing the entire thing over (minus the 
chown and chmod mistakes).

Could anyone give me a good reason why the server started to choke?  Do you 
think it was what I did?

~Randy