<div dir="ltr">Please allow me to disagree,<div><br></div><div>I see top value in spending some time to learn to set it up automatically - it'll pay itself in spades every time you have to update anything on that server, let alone migrate or rebuild it.</div><div><br></div><div>Setting up a test environment with Vagrant, setting things up with Puppet (or whatever else is your favourite poison), testing the changes with Serverspec and friends shouldn't take more than a day of hacking, will make you much more relaxed about maintaining this server, and give you fantastic tools to use in your other work.</div><div><br></div><div>E.g. I'm hacking now on my own project and see the value of automatic tests so as my code progresses, I can make sure I didn't break something which worked before. Sure its a hassle to kickstart it but once it's up it's invaluable.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 April 2015 at 12:53, Shachar Shemesh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shachar@shemesh.biz" target="_blank">shachar@shemesh.biz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Yes. That's top advice IF you are working off someone elses money and/or paying for your own time.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If, however, this is something done in your spare time, serving mostly you and being paid for out of your own pocket, the difference between 8€/mo and what you said becomes big.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Shachar</p>
<div>On Apr 14, 2015 3:02 AM, Amos Shapira <<a href="mailto:amos.shapira@gmail.com" target="_blank">amos.shapira@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 April 2015 at 02:34, Shachar Shemesh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shachar@shemesh.biz" target="_blank">shachar@shemesh.biz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="direction:ltr" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">If I just reinstall the server (both time consuming and
expensive, as I need provision a temporary server to make a smooth
transition), I'm still going to be open to the same attack vector
unless I do something.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Don't you have a DR plan?</div><div>How about automating the server setup, so you can both test changes (ever heard of Vagrant?) and get it back to life without worrying about it?</div><div><br></div><div>Remember - todays servers should be treated like cattle, not pets: <a href="http://image.slidesharecdn.com/cerndatacentreevolution-sdcd2012-121119074533-phpapp02/95/cern-data-centre-evolution-17-638.jpg" target="_blank">http://image.slidesharecdn.com/cerndatacentreevolution-sdcd2012-121119074533-phpapp02/95/cern-data-centre-evolution-17-638.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div>(from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/gmccance/cern-data-centre-evolution" target="_blank">http://www.slideshare.net/gmccance/cern-data-centre-evolution</a>, origin at <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/randybias/pets-vs-cattle-the-elastic-cloud-story" target="_blank">http://www.slideshare.net/randybias/pets-vs-cattle-the-elastic-cloud-story</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>--Amos</div></div>
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