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0 pointscodegeek2y ago0 comments

Our main Marketing website that brings revenue is down. No Sympathy from me. It has been 20 mins now. Losing money as I type this.

EDIT: I panicked a little. As a dev, I should have been more sympathetic.

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acdha2y ago

It’s only reasonable to be angry but do try to remember that the people fixing this are people like you who showed up at work to build something and are instead dealing with a fire. Ask their bosses about how they got in that situation but be nice to them, they’re having an even worse day than you are.

codegeekOP2y ago

Fair enough. They resolved it now and I was in a bit of panic considering our revenue depends on the website. As a developer though, I should have been more sympathetic.

andrelaszlo2y ago

I'm curious, I definitely get the panic. How much does a 30 minute outage cost you, vs how much would it cost to build a solution with some kind of standby that you could fail over to in scenarios like this?

It could be worth it, but if you do the math and it seems like it's not worth it, it could perhaps give you some equanimity the next time it happens?

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