VPS troubles and the weekend

This weekend I went to the cottage with P on Friday. I hoped I would have a nice weekend reading in front of the wood stove, but I had also planned to spend at least a few hours trying to configure Maddy as the new mail server for hack.org et al. Then the web server I moved to the new VPS died. Again. I connected to the VNC console and, like before, the Linux kernel couldn't find its root disk. A…