Every freekin day. I do a lot of WordPress hosting for large-ish non-software clients running one-off webservers that were setup by who knows years ago. I cer

Every freekin day. I do a lot of WordPress hosting for large-ish non-software clients running one-off webservers that were setup by who knows years ago. I certainly can and have automated stuff... but when I get a client who already has hosting setup, they just want me to manage it, not rebuild it. As a sibling comment mentions, a lot of that is troubleshooting... But making changes to stuff in /etc is an extremely common case where I just ssh in and use vim. None of these clients have documentation on how the server was setup, much less any sort of way to set one up automatically. So there is a lot of "hey, can you up the max_file_upload for PHP" or "add a link to the hard-coded footer menu in our Drupal install". And even when they want me to setup new stuff, they prefer me to just deploy a new instance and give them notes on whatever I do to it. Since these are 1-off things (like a server running some video conferencing or file management), there's not a lot of utility in build a script in BASH or ansible or whatever to build the server. I'm a dev and the only one at the buisness where I work, so I'd be stoked to hear about some better way of doing work. But really, spending time in an SSH and configin stuff with vim seems like the fast, lightweight path for most of the work I do.