Well, that's just it. I'm not a CCIE, or even a CCNP, or even a CCNA so I have no idea what kind of scenario to present. You could look for some CCIE practice questions to see the kind of tasks they have to deal with. Let me see if I can find one...
@Jacob You can take it as an axiom that if you listen to your engineers and do what they say things will rarely turn to shit. The corollary is that once it's all gone to bits it costs more in terms of time and money to fix the mess than it would have to just listen and do it right :-)
Well that's messed up. Full restore of my web hosting account back to a day that I'm certain the site was functioning properly. Total refresh. Still not working, so now I've got to fight with the web host to convince them it's something on their end.
I think I'll rebuild it on another hosting account to prove them wrong.
Nothing motivates hard and careful work on a weekend like the possibility of being able to say "I told you so!"
@ChrisS I even offered to come back cheap as a 1099 contractor to help them figure out if it was a good idea (I know it's not! They have a bunch of unix systems and Altiris isn't great at that...)
While migrating data off it to our new machine, the SAN died again just like last week, and this time caused a kernel panic taking the whole machine down also
This is, in my opinion, the wort part of the system admin role. Waiting for a server to come back online, knowing you can't do anything to make it go faster, fighting to control your frustration and agitation as users and management breathe down your neck asking when the server will be back...
Is the following sane: `tar cfz $(date +%a-%d-%b-%Y).homedir.tar.gz /home/user/homedirbackups` Is it bad to save the file in the directory that is being tarballed? That doesn't make some kind of crazy Klein bottle effect?
Okay, yeah. I've got like 6 separate websites I want to host on it, and some VPS companies will say that more than one domain per VPS costs extra. Rare, but happens.
I was about to go with MyHosting.com's custom VPS, but I get more for less at clubuptime
I'd hope to avoid cPanel wherever possible. I mean, I've still got SSH access and would hope to do most of my stuff via that. I'm still in larval stage.
So is the ire against cPanel simply because it dumbs things down or are their fundamental flaws with how it effects a web server?
What we're doing... actually, what I was doing right before the kernel panic, is setting up a cPanel server which will handle email/ftp, but set up our own webserver VMs outside cPanel to actually server content
@coredump That's what I was thinking. I just don't know about the learning curve with so many things backing up on me. I'm going from bed, to desk and back to bed after 16 hours now
In honesty, if you'd asked me two weeks ago about them I would have said they're fantastic
and my new server is freaking awesome. It's just this damn SAN. And specifically iSCSI. The SAN's not down, just something messed up with iSCSI drivers
If I go cPanel with some management, I can get these things up and done in a short amount of time. If I go unmanaged I'm working through the weekend and probably all of next week on a huge learning curve doing things I've never done before for production websites that customers will be on.
I like the learning new things part. I don't like the rocket launcher style learning curve with customers in the balance.
Okay, so I think I'm going to wimp out because of the time sensitive nature of things, and go for a cPanel VPS. Still, it's got learning potential for me, just not the K2 level of vertical movement. Which makes me a bit sad, but... customers and all.
and @Josh, I'm looking at those Storm servers and still not sure about the price. If I had a bit more room in my bank account and I knew their support was awesome, I might spring for it.
Okay @coredump, we'll be VPS neighbors. I'm going for a managed VPS at club uptime.
@WesleyDavid I have not used their storm servers, only their dedicated servers. I know that tech support for dedicated servers has been awesome. My issue with the SAN last week was they sent that over to system restore and migrations who were signifigantly less awesome