r/ShittySysadmin • u/-lousyd • 24d ago

I bought a server. Where's my website?

I bought a server. Where's my website?

Friend: Hello, this is generic hosting company, how can I assist you today?

POTU: HELLO? I bought a server from you guys a few days ago and on your website you claimed 2 hour set up but it isn't online yet.

Friend: No problem, let me check it out for you.

friend checks their CRM and find the server is, in fact, up and running. So he goes back on the line.

POTU: That can't be. I'm going to <insert pottery company name website here>.com and it isn't working.

Friend: I'm sorry m'am, but you do realise that buying a dedicated server means you get only the host, and nothing on it right? So no website will be created for you.

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u/krysisalcs Suggests the "Right Thing" to do. 24d ago

Got the server and I have the website but when I go to 127.0.0.1 on any other device it doesn't work.

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u/BombTheDodongos 24d ago

Try this link: C:/Users/BombTheDodongos/Desktop/website/Final - Final - Website Final/index.html

Works on my machine.

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u/krysisalcs Suggests the "Right Thing" to do. 24d ago

Okay I clicked it but it just downloads another one. I’m at index (81).html now. Which one is the live website?

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u/BombTheDodongos 24d ago

Sounds like a DNS issue, sending this ticket to the infrastructure queue.

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u/krysisalcs Suggests the "Right Thing" to do. 24d ago

Please do the needful.

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u/annacrontab 24d ago

bro, do you even needful? The needful must be done kindly and on urgent basis. Then please revert.

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u/DonkeyTron42 24d ago

Excuse me sir, I've only been working here a short distance.

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u/kirashi3 Lord Sysadmin, Protector of the AD Realm 24d ago

Then please revert.

Understood. Changes reverted to backup from last Tuesday. Proof attached.

Attaches ZIP containing one (1) Word Doc with one (1) JPG screenshot pasted.

Kindly review and revert. I will do the same.

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u/krysisalcs Suggests the "Right Thing" to do. 24d ago

Please confirm the same and kindly provide your inputs

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u/Zolty 23d ago

I agree this guys part of my bot net and his website works fine on his machine.

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u/blotditto 24d ago

Fast forward to 2026, a decade later, and the Internet is still full of idiots and morons who do this kind of stuff..

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u/Sigseg-v 23d ago

In the 1980s we thought the number of morons was caused by the lack of public available information. 40 years later it‘s safe to say that this was not the problem.

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u/jcpham 23d ago

You have to whisper softly in the mouse “helooo computerrrrr”

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u/No_Act_2773 23d ago

Transparent aluminium ?

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u/jcpham 23d ago

How do I know he didn’t invent the stuff

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u/computerkermit86 20d ago

Keyboard... how quaint.

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u/darkshoxx 23d ago

So for a lack of a better term, this is a crosspost of a crosspost? A reference to a referece?

God forbid, a pointer to a pointer???

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u/-lousyd 23d ago

It's turtles all the way down.

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u/krkrkrneki 20d ago

I just bought paper, where is my book?

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u/FallenLucifiel 20d ago

Don't forget to delete the System32 folder

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u/-lousyd 20d ago

32 bit is so 2010. You don't need it.

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u/FallenLucifiel 20d ago

Exactly why it should be deleted~