The BOFH is a response to the kinds of things that still happen, for a nice little modern-day horror story take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comm

The BOFH is a response to the kinds of things that still happen, for a nice little modern-day horror story take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/eaphr8/a_dropbox_account_gave_me_stomach_ulcers/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/eaphr8/a_dropbox_... The meat buried in there: [...]"it wasn't just the database it was the entire app and website. The app was actually just a server instance in Heroku that was spun up whenever there was an update and would make crazy api calls to the drop box account read information from hardcoded database files. He immediately called drop box support to figure out what in god's name was going on and to his horror after several escalations gained access to the account and found that the account had 497 TB of 500 TB space used up and the team was on the verge of running out." also "This single drop box account was also their version control."