Hot Koehl » hardware fail http://frankkoehl.com The more you know, the more you don't know Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:52:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Seriously, guys… http://frankkoehl.com/2009/09/seriously-guys/ http://frankkoehl.com/2009/09/seriously-guys/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:27:42 +0000 Frank http://frankkoehl.com/?p=806 In my life as a full-time employee, I ran a membership management system for an international non-profit that organized over 40,000 volunteers at the local, state, and national levels in almost 30 countries. It coordinated physical material deliveries (part of the system was a full shopping cart installation), managed electronic documents, and delivered news to all those volunteers. I built the system myself from scratch (minus said shopping cart), and ran it on my own for almost three years.

When I wasn’t coding it or maintaining the server, I provided tech support for the office staff and customer support (including phone calls) for volunteers.

I was the only technical person in the whole place.

I can count the number of times that system went down as result of anything other than a hardware issue on one hand.

Much as I love it, I fail to see how a minimally configurable 140-character obtuse message board can fail so often!

Update: Alright, it’s back up. Good recovery this time, but you still have to reset the “Days since an accident” sign back to zero.

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