Alt tabbed one too many times, clicked drop database, clicked ok, realized I’d just deleted the live user database for America’s Army. Thankfully it was the east coast site and west coast was the primary, and it was only one way replication. We shut down east coast auth and rebuilt the secondary.
Someone distracted me while typing in a vlan command on a switch, I hit enter without double checking, took out our fiber between two datacenters in the middle of a move. Took me 15 minutes to run to the DC, plug in a console cable and fix it. Took all of our customers out.
America’s Army is such a bizarre game, at a conceptual level. Do you have any other fun stories from that? I have to imagine a lot of weird things went down behind the scenes.
Two big ones in my younger days:
Alt tabbed one too many times, clicked drop database, clicked ok, realized I’d just deleted the live user database for America’s Army. Thankfully it was the east coast site and west coast was the primary, and it was only one way replication. We shut down east coast auth and rebuilt the secondary.
Someone distracted me while typing in a vlan command on a switch, I hit enter without double checking, took out our fiber between two datacenters in the middle of a move. Took me 15 minutes to run to the DC, plug in a console cable and fix it. Took all of our customers out.
Uh oh
America’s Army is such a bizarre game, at a conceptual level. Do you have any other fun stories from that? I have to imagine a lot of weird things went down behind the scenes.
Nothing else that immediately comes to mind, it was like 20 years ago.
oh shit so that’s a game ! I thought this guy had taken down the entire US army in one click.