TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.net to memes@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-23 months agoPhotographs of me about to edit the firewall on my webserver knowing that any mistake could lock me out of SSH until the technicians in Germany arrive at the datacenter on Monday (2024)hexbear.netimagemessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up190arrow-down10
arrow-up190arrow-down1imagePhotographs of me about to edit the firewall on my webserver knowing that any mistake could lock me out of SSH until the technicians in Germany arrive at the datacenter on Monday (2024)hexbear.netTankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.net to memes@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-23 months agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squareChronicon [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoouch no backup way in? most hosts have a serial console or rescue image or something you can boot to to fix this kind of thing. onsite technicians fixing software problems is very 90s/early 2000s
minus-squareTankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoIt’s a dedicated server so the only way to boot a rescue OS is in-person (afaik).
minus-squareChronicon [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agodepends on the provider, but that may well be true for your provider yeah
ouch no backup way in? most hosts have a serial console or rescue image or something you can boot to to fix this kind of thing. onsite technicians fixing software problems is very 90s/early 2000s
It’s a dedicated server so the only way to boot a rescue OS is in-person (afaik).
depends on the provider, but that may well be true for your provider yeah