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What actually happens when a server dies?
Good infrastructure is not designed to stop servers failing. It is designed around what happens next.
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Why your production server should not be interesting
A clever shell script only one person understands is a liability with good intentions. Production should be predictable, replaceable and mostly forgettable.
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Who owns the problem when the application is slow?
The developer says the server is slow. The hosting provider says the server is fine. Everyone has supplied an answer and nobody has solved anything.
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What "managed" should actually mean
The word describes everything from a fully operated system to a provider who installed the operating system once and will answer an email if it catches fire.
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