Comment on Appreciation / shock at workplace IT systems
tiredofsametab@kbin.run 3 months ago
I've been in IT for a couple decades at this point. I stopped doing almost any swlf-hosted stuff years ago as I just don't have the time or energy to deal with things. There's a lot to keep up on with technologies, security, etc. not to mention all the constants of keeping things up-to-date, back-ups, troubleshooting issues, and more
skilltheamps@feddit.de 3 months ago
True words. The sustained effort to keep something in decent shape over years is not to be underestimated. Now when life changes and one is not able or willing anymore to invest that amount of time, ill-timed issues can become quite the burden. At one point I decided to cut down on that by doing a better founded setup, that does backup with easy rollback automatically, and updates semi-automatically. I rely on my server(s), and all from having this idea to having it decently implemented took me a number of months. Just because time for such activities is limited, and getting a complex and intertwined system like this reliably and fault tolerant automated and monitored is simply something else than spinning up a one off service