Everywhere I’ve ever worked has had that mission critical box.

At one of my jobs we had a server rack with UPS, etc, all the usual business. On the floor next to it was a dell desktop with a piece of paper on it that said “do not turn off”. It had our source control server in it, and the power button didn’t work. We did eventually move it to something more sensible but we had that for a long time

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victorbjorklund 20 hours ago | parent [-]

with only one person on earth being able to access it? so if that person is hit by a car everything goes down?

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maccard 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

yeah. I mean, someone else would _eventually_ figure it out. There wasn't full disk encryption or anyhting on it, so if the guy got hit by a bus, and the machien turned off we probably would have just imaged the disk and got it running in a VM.

But we didn't (and nobody was hit by a bus)

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victorbjorklund 16 hours ago | parent [-]

and you think that is good practice? sounds pretty terrible.

	▲	maccard 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I never said it’s good practice, simply that it happens.

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glimshe 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Pretty much