Comment Someone needs to be FIRED (Score 4, Funny) 711
You pay your infrastructure people to maintain business, continuity I mean the tittle of this post made me go, "Really, no shit" That's like systems admin 101! If the admin was aware then the manager that didn't listen needs to be fired. If the manager listened and they are just run by retards then they got what they deserve. You'd think 17,000 visitors a month would be worth enough to do it right, in add revenue alone.
The cost of a consumer machine running linux with a few TB's of SATA space - $1200
How much the company paid to have a system's admin play video games all day - $50,000
The cost of a 17,000 vistor a month site going down because they had no data base backups - Priceless.