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Our core infrastructure is highly redundant and can survive almost any failure. But this (needlessly long) story isn’t about that; no, it’s about an outlying building that houses our execs and their staff. Given the small amount of staff and their (supposedly!) non-critical needs we only have a single small server running VMware. Recently this server has started rebooting randomly. What makes this really bad is that even though this box isn’t supposed to do anything critical over time… Continue

It’s that magical time of year again when I go shopping for all the shiny new toys I’ll be buying in January. But once again I find that some vendors apparently enjoy wasting time by hiding the costs of their products.



Here’s the thing; don’t make me call you, schedule a sales meeting then talk for hours about our current needs and directions, then lecture me about how much the competition sucks until finally you come out with the price. Look, maybe I think your product is the… Continue

This is my first blog here … I hope it’s not too long winded.



I have too many databases servers running. The problem is basically that many apps want a database and we just end up installing another one for every app we deploy. Installed RT so we added another copy of PostgreSQL, setup MediaWiki so we also installed another copy of MySQL, added another line of business app and we ended up installing another MSSQL instance, etc … and it just keeps adding up. Off the top of my head I… Continue