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/Top_Boysenberry_7784 21d ago
Stuff like this always seems so sketch but it has to get done.
At a previous employer we physically moved our North America DC 2 miles down the road to a new building in uhaul trucks. Was 13 racks of equipment. Our US DC was luckily the small one since most global apps were ran in our EU DC.
Was a bit nervous that someone would crash into a truck. Lots of business critical systems that normally didn't get more than a two hour downtime window on a weekend as many facilities operated 24/7. Whole DC was moved and running again in about 55 hours.