What Are You Doing Right Now
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 It is in the scheme of things. I just hate making dumb mistakes like that. However, on a positive note. When I return tomorrow to swap our backup drives, I'll have my label maker with me, so this error shouldn't happen again.
Good stuff.
I'll be working on cleaning up my server room and cable tying things neatly away in a few days.
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Still syncing archives offsite while planning phone system upgrades, and checking email.
I've got 3 systems around me right now, a MacBook Air, a Windows 10 desktop, and a Korora Live USB running on a Carbon X1.
I feel kind of spoiled at the moment
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The Korora Live is doing the offsite sync, cause of stupidly long file paths. . . . so yeah. . . syncing that using the console.
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So many TB of old files that need to get pushed off site. . . .
Weeks worth to upload.
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@DustinB3403 Ya, I'm trying to get the boss to order gigabit u/d fiber service so a single server backup offsite doesn't take days
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@momurda oh I'm pulling off of USB's we have decent internet. Not gig, but decent.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I hate making errors. Brought our website down for 4 minutes due to a misidentified power cable. >(Why is your website locally hosted? Seems like that would be an easy fix.
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At the dentist, lost a filling. Fortunate my dentist has evening hours and was available.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I hate making errors. Brought our website down for 4 minutes due to a misidentified power cable. >(Why is your website locally hosted? Seems like that would be an easy fix.
Old application that apparently requires the environment it's in. I'm not a dev for it, so I cannot give a "why"
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I hate making errors. Brought our website down for 4 minutes due to a misidentified power cable. >(Why is your website locally hosted? Seems like that would be an easy fix.
Old application that apparently requires the environment it's in. I'm not a dev for it, so I cannot give a "why"
Logically a dev couldn't tell you "why" either as nothing on the dev side would influence hosted or not hosted. That's purely on the infrastructure side.
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I'm about to head back to the convention. It's dinner time.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I hate making errors. Brought our website down for 4 minutes due to a misidentified power cable. >(Why is your website locally hosted? Seems like that would be an easy fix.
Old application that apparently requires the environment it's in. I'm not a dev for it, so I cannot give a "why"
Logically a dev couldn't tell you "why" either as nothing on the dev side would influence hosted or not hosted. That's purely on the infrastructure side.
You're probably right. I don't touch our web application; thus, I know not its requirements. I'll take a look at the build script it uses sometime and see if I can glean some information as to why it requires (if it requires) our environment.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I hate making errors. Brought our website down for 4 minutes due to a misidentified power cable. >(Why is your website locally hosted? Seems like that would be an easy fix.
Old application that apparently requires the environment it's in. I'm not a dev for it, so I cannot give a "why"
Logically a dev couldn't tell you "why" either as nothing on the dev side would influence hosted or not hosted. That's purely on the infrastructure side.
You're probably right. I don't touch our web application; thus, I know not its requirements. I'll take a look at the build script it uses sometime and see if I can glean some information as to why it requires (if it requires) our environment.
By "your environment" are you referring to your LAN or are you referring to the system build that it is running on?
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@scottalanmiller Both. The system it runs on. The system that hosts the database it uses, and the LAN that connects them.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Both. The system it runs on. The system that hosts the database it uses, and the LAN that connects them.
It's a general purpose database that does other things AND the website?
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OMG, this person wants to newly deploy a Pentium IV "server" that wasn't even a real server when it was new like 17 years ago!! And they want to run 2008 R2 in a new deployment as well.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Both. The system it runs on. The system that hosts the database it uses, and the LAN that connects them.
It's a general purpose database that does other things AND the website?
No. Database is just for the website. Box 1 is IIS that runs a .net application (that's basically the business) which talks to a SQL server database (Box 2) as well as a SMTP server (Box 3, which also runs REDIS and our backup software).
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Both. The system it runs on. The system that hosts the database it uses, and the LAN that connects them.
It's a general purpose database that does other things AND the website?
No. Database is just for the website. Box 1 is IIS that runs a .net application (that's basically the business) which talks to a SQL server database (Box 2) as well as a SMTP server (Box 3, which also runs REDIS and our backup software).
If that statement is true, then you need no further information and there is no reason that the website runs locally - it was just a mistake or oversight. No one to check with, no need to follow up. You know from that statement, assuming that it is correct, that you can just package up the databases and the web server and host them externally. There is no environmental dependency, it's fully contained as its own thing.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Both. The system it runs on. The system that hosts the database it uses, and the LAN that connects them.
It's a general purpose database that does other things AND the website?
No. Database is just for the website. Box 1 is IIS that runs a .net application (that's basically the business) which talks to a SQL server database (Box 2) as well as a SMTP server (Box 3, which also runs REDIS and our backup software).
If that statement is true, then you need no further information and there is no reason that the website runs locally - it was just a mistake or oversight. No one to check with, no need to follow up. You know from that statement, assuming that it is correct, that you can just package up the databases and the web server and host them externally. There is no environmental dependency, it's fully contained as its own thing.
That's what I figured, which is why when I've inquired a few time about "why aren't we hosting this on X" the answer basically boils down to this is how it's been for a decade or two. Goal of the person in charge is to get to where all of this runs in something like Azure rather than running on our servers at a data center.
Problem = I'm not in a position to decree it to be done and start the process.
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Heading to rehearsal.
