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I don't usually rant at work, but I'm afraid I just had a teeny bit of a strop. See, I'm supposed to be developing a new bit of software, but so far today, I've spoken to two fuckwit customers on the phone, rebooted our main server (less than 24 hours after the last time), rebooted the fileserver up here (and had to deal with the fact that the monitor on that box has a dicky power supply and doesn't always work...), cleared out crap that had become stuck in the mailserver (Ipswitch Imail, do *not* use this piece of crap) and fixed a misconfiguration which was causing the same server to reject mail from customers on broadband. This place is a fucking joke. It really is. I'm amazed we actually *have* any customers. We rely on antiquated equipment which is falling apart around our ears, we use software that has clearly been written by very stoned monkeys and our servers have an average uptime in the region of 4 days. I want to scream "let me fix it!" at them, but I'm afraid they'd let me, and I wouldn't get paid any more for it...
I run a mailserver, a webserver and various other daemons and services on my home machine, without *any* problems. It has been up for 50 days. It was only rebooted *then* because I needed to stick a new network card in it. It's *really* not that difficult... Why can't a company with 8 employees, most of whom are at least marginally technically literate, seem to manage this? I could have a secure, robust mail/webserver set up down there in less than a day. It could be handling *all* mail and web services for *all* our clients within a week, even if I was the only one transferring the data. It would just sit there and work, like mine does. There would be no rebooting, no nursing it back to health when some obscure windows process dies and no more wasted time. About the only problem would be translating the ASP scripts into PHP, which, given the way I've set most of the newer ones up, shouldn't be much hassle. The one fly in the ointment is that it's not my job, and I don't get paid nearly enough to do that as well as everything else I do (I don't actually get paid enough for all of those either, but that's another issue).
*SCREAM*
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I run a mailserver, a webserver and various other daemons and services on my home machine, without *any* problems. It has been up for 50 days. It was only rebooted *then* because I needed to stick a new network card in it. It's *really* not that difficult... Why can't a company with 8 employees, most of whom are at least marginally technically literate, seem to manage this? I could have a secure, robust mail/webserver set up down there in less than a day. It could be handling *all* mail and web services for *all* our clients within a week, even if I was the only one transferring the data. It would just sit there and work, like mine does. There would be no rebooting, no nursing it back to health when some obscure windows process dies and no more wasted time. About the only problem would be translating the ASP scripts into PHP, which, given the way I've set most of the newer ones up, shouldn't be much hassle. The one fly in the ointment is that it's not my job, and I don't get paid nearly enough to do that as well as everything else I do (I don't actually get paid enough for all of those either, but that's another issue).
*SCREAM*
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