You’ve never been in data center ops if..

You have never been in charge of data center ops if you have never turned to your staff and said: “Can we just burn all this s#it and start over?”

What a messed up day. Everything crashed today. Including a Linux server that has been up and running for over 500 days without a restart. Everything from a $399 server to servers with $399 network controllers.

And then people look at me sideways when I say we will not support EBS/SBS. I will no longer approve purchases and deployment of single point of failure solutions. It’s 20-fn-08, overpowered hardware is dirt cheap and we are designing infrastructure like we just got out of the great depression and are trolling up and down the L looking for coal rocks to trade for parts. Come on, who needs this stress!!!

Drinking it away at Chillis and blogging from my iPod.