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Servers & infrastructure

Servers, backups, certificates, full disks and "temporary" machines running in production for years.

Backup & recovery

Report no. 0002

“Can we shut it down by pulling the plug?” “Yes.”: the migration that was supposed to take an hour

In 2020 all it took was shutting a server down and moving it to the new PoP. A colleague had a doubt: “Can we shut it down by pulling the plug?” The answer was “yes”. The server never came back.

Severity Apocalypse 5 out of 5 Dumbness Masterpiece of absurdity 5 out of 5