Positive outcomes from server failures
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008Well, the September quarter is done and dusted, and if it weren’t for a few busy weeks of fixing servers it would have been pretty quiet. The past few days however have seen numerous PC failures - it is as if the servers work fine while the workstations have issues, and the workstations work fine when the servers are down. If only the users would work fine 10% of the time 
In the past six months I have gone through two serious (one of them majorly serious) failures relating to the same server. I’ve noticed there are two good things to come out of a serious server crash/outage. When I say serious, it is on the level where it impacts the majority of the organization for longer than 24 hours, however only time is lost, all company data is safe.