What’s YOUR worst ops nightmare?

October 16th, 2007 javier

Some days feel like walking nightmares to the ops folks that power the websites we all take for granted. I’m sure the folks at 365 Main enjoyed their 24 hour outage crisis. Skype’s outage became a worldwide headline for 3 days. Not all website outages are headliners, but all of them are painful for the men and women in the trenches fighting those fires.

As we approach Halloween, Hyperic continues its ‘tradition’ of bringing the daily challenges of web operations folks to the limelight by creating a contest to share these “Nightmare on Web Street”. The winning story will get a Nintendo Wii so they can kill time while waiting for the next crisis event. The contest begins today. To apply, submit a short essay (no more than 500 words) at www.hyperic.com/community/nightmare by 11:59 pm on October 30th, 2007. We’ll post all eligible stories on the site within 24 hours of submission, and on Halloween, the Hyperic team will vote for and announce the winner.

So, if you’re an ops guy, sys admin, or one of those multi-talented overworked IT folks with a good disaster story, share it! We’ll have a good time reading it and you just might win a Wii.

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