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Three weekends this month my company is going live with new websites in a new data centre. As such, even though our involvement is strictly that of providing the content management system, we're cleaning up lots of the tech details of the implementation, like the DNS switchover.
At 3:45 today I realise that if one of the other domains hosted in our new data centre isn't accessible from laptops in our new network, that Monday AM when everyone tries to see their new website....they won't see shit.
Oops.
MEGA oops.
Lead Developer tells me who we need to talk to and we spend the next half an hour trying to convince him of the craziness of the web servers in the new data centre being inaccessible from within that network, and also getting schooled in DNS, but PR crisis averted.
And I didn't even get to tell my boss of the fire that didn't even catch, because he left just as I got back to my desk.
But, seriously, if that was the only thing I did this week, I earned my pay.
Still, I need to be alert early Sunday AM because I have to remind the DNS guy to put in a fake entry into the local server because the internal DNS is kerfucked, not to mention the routing.
Did I mention mega oops?
I should compose an email to boss over the weekend. How to phrase it so he doesn't a) panic anyway b) call me for explanation?
At 3:45 today I realise that if one of the other domains hosted in our new data centre isn't accessible from laptops in our new network, that Monday AM when everyone tries to see their new website....they won't see shit.
Oops.
MEGA oops.
Lead Developer tells me who we need to talk to and we spend the next half an hour trying to convince him of the craziness of the web servers in the new data centre being inaccessible from within that network, and also getting schooled in DNS, but PR crisis averted.
And I didn't even get to tell my boss of the fire that didn't even catch, because he left just as I got back to my desk.
But, seriously, if that was the only thing I did this week, I earned my pay.
Still, I need to be alert early Sunday AM because I have to remind the DNS guy to put in a fake entry into the local server because the internal DNS is kerfucked, not to mention the routing.
Did I mention mega oops?
I should compose an email to boss over the weekend. How to phrase it so he doesn't a) panic anyway b) call me for explanation?