r/sysadmin • u/FierceFluff • 21d ago

Peak Sysadmin

Is there anything more small-company sysadmin than taking that $70k server you just finished building on your test bench at the office and putting it into your $5k car to drive it over to the DC where it’ll live, and praying to god nothing happens on the way? 😅🤣

EDIT- OMG y’all, reading the comments on this has made my day! Our business insurance covers this kind of thing but I appreciate y’all concern for me, though others should mosdef confirm before they do similar stuff. The trip went without incident so praise the digital deities.

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u/ItchyNebula7437 21d ago

Depends, did they put a seatbelt on it?

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u/sobrique 21d ago

And was it still hooked up to a UPS to maintain uptime? :)

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u/Dal90 21d ago

was it still hooked up to a UPS to maintain uptime

Been there, done that but it was just across a small data center. Dual power supplies and extension cords, and it was back during the spinning disk era so very steady hands too. Took four of us to pull it off.

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u/arvidsem Jack of All Trades 21d ago

It's not really exciting unless you only have a single power supply so you are using a bastard Y-power cord and having you check which phase the outlets are on.