stupidest thing youve done in your hosting career

[Todd Holley]

Figured i'd start this since I just did the stupidest thing ever.

 

In my haste to get a new box set up I clicked disable network adapter instead of properties while trying to add ip's to a brand new box. Now it takes hours for some cali tech to casually stroll into the server room and re - enable it.

[Defcon|Rich]

You might think about changing who you host with. Any reputable datacenter shouldn't have a problem taking care of that for you in just a few minutes..

[studeggle]

Remote KVM switches are wonderful for that kind of thing

[Todd Holley]

You might think about changing who you host with. Any reputable datacenter shouldn't have a problem taking care of that for you in just a few minutes..

 

They do this in about 5 minutes when I did this in chicago.

 

I have never gotten a response time longer than 6 minutes on a support ticket. No matter if it's 3 PM or 3 AM.

[Defcon|Rich]

They do this in about 5 minutes when I did this in chicago.

 

I have never gotten a response time longer than 6 minutes on a support ticket. No matter if it's 3 PM or 3 AM.

 

 

Support ticket response time and onsite support are very different creatures.

 

 

But I'll bet you double check before clicking on the network settings now

[Todd Holley]

No doubt! You know the guy that was walking in to re enable it was snickering lol.

 

I am sure i am not the only one that has done this.

[kalyse]

Deleted the tc_services table when I should hav deleted the tc_services_performance.

 

My most recent backup was about 30 hours ago, but the problem was I had since moved all IPs of all servers.

 

I had to recreate around 160 servers