What's that you say? Off topic? Yea I agree, but...
As a systems and network administrator I know that the vast majority of outages are human initiated. Maintenance gone bad. Simple mistakes such as unplugging the wrong cable. Stupid stuff. Sometimes thresholds such as disk usage or other resources get exceeded or a part just wears out and breaks, but usually it's us stupid humans fucking something up with our own hands where it would have been just fine if you had left it alone.
So there's your servers are houseplants advice. Stop touching them. Stop doing stuff. Leave it alone.
Of course that's impossible. We have to get new plants installed and have to find that equilibrium they like to thrive.
But when you find it, leave them the fuck alone and don't break it.
As a systems and network administrator I know that the vast majority of outages are human initiated. Maintenance gone bad. Simple mistakes such as unplugging the wrong cable. Stupid stuff. Sometimes thresholds such as disk usage or other resources get exceeded or a part just wears out and breaks, but usually it's us stupid humans fucking something up with our own hands where it would have been just fine if you had left it alone.
So there's your servers are houseplants advice. Stop touching them. Stop doing stuff. Leave it alone.
Of course that's impossible. We have to get new plants installed and have to find that equilibrium they like to thrive.
But when you find it, leave them the fuck alone and don't break it.