As ugly as the chore can be, it's actually better than it used to be several years ago.
When I started in the primary rotation in 1999, the servers tended to drop like flies regularly, there were no automatic failovers and/or clusters, switching to contingency was painful, disks and CPUs were unreliabable, automated monitoring was shaky and backups were sluggish. The pressure was incredible.
Nowadays, our servers are in clusters, load balancers redirect traffic as needed, we have durable SAN arrays, our monitoring is pretty good & interconnected and our backup libraries are vastly improved. In short, the pressure is vastly less intense than it used to be --thank god. I would have burnt out years ago otherwise.
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Date: 2008-01-25 06:21 pm (UTC)When I started in the primary rotation in 1999, the servers tended to drop like flies regularly, there were no automatic failovers and/or clusters, switching to contingency was painful, disks and CPUs were unreliabable, automated monitoring was shaky and backups were sluggish. The pressure was incredible.
Nowadays, our servers are in clusters, load balancers redirect traffic as needed, we have durable SAN arrays, our monitoring is pretty good & interconnected and our backup libraries are vastly improved. In short, the pressure is vastly less intense than it used to be --thank god. I would have burnt out years ago otherwise.