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0 pointscpncrunch12y ago0 comments

Actually, vacation / time off shouldn't be an issue. I've been doing this for 15 years and now my product runs like clockwork. Generally unless I'm doing new dev work, I only have a few support emails per day. As long as I go on vacation somewhere where I can at least have wifi in the evenings and mobile data during the day to occasionally check my email, it's not a problem. Also I regularly take long breaks during the day, or take days off to go on trips somewhere. I think you need to do this otherwise you'll be in danger of burning out.

It also helps to plan for the worst. Right now my slight concern is lack of RAID on my server. However I back up every day to a separate disk on the server (plus offsite downloads every couple of weeks), so in the worst case it will probably just take me an hour or two to get most things up and running on a new server. Obviously not the best thing to happen on vacation though :)

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scottclark12y ago

LOL, when I was running my own servers it seemed the only time they would go down was when I was on vacation.

SyneRyder12y ago

I was going to post something similar - I was able to take 3 months to travel overseas as a 1-person business, and the business didn't collapse or run into any calamities. I always had my laptop and answered customer emails every couple of days.

Maybe it's an issue if you're running a SAAS business. Instead my stuff is consumer downloadable software, so if there was a problem it was usually just a single customer, not my entire customer base at once.

cpncrunchOP12y ago

Well my business has SAAS and downloadable software versions. However I've been refining it for 15 years, so it generally runs very smoothly unless I screw something up. I usually don't touch ANYTHING in the 1-week before I go on vacation, just in case I break something.

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