On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 13:25, Kyle Waters<u...@unum5.org> wrote: > There's a good reason most of us handle server administration with a > dose of paranoia. If you are casual about it you could put > someone(including yourself) out of business. So while the chance is > small, why take it? This is after all the money you use to feed your self.
Amen. It's great to be able to say something bad "probably" didn't happen, but that's a big ole fat "probably" (proportionate to the cost of having it happen). My motto has always been to be as paranoid as I can afford to be. If you'll definitely go out of business as a result of taking time to re-install (for example) and you'll possibly lose a customer if you don't and something bad happens, then the cost of reinstalling is high. OTOH, if you'll lose a customer by having _anything_ happen to their data, and you'll lose some sleep or a day's work by reinstalling, you can't afford not to reinstall. Pick your location on the spectrum between. -- Alex Esplin /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
