Hardware is evil, this is why we migrate everything to The Cloud! And get angry every time The Cloud serves us a painful reminded that it's just Someone Else's

Hardware is evil, this is why we migrate everything to The Cloud! And get angry every time The Cloud serves us a painful reminded that it's just Someone Else's Hardware. My favorite Faulty RAM story involves working for a hosting company that at some point homebrewed some Linux-based TCP/IP load balancers to offer customers instead of a proper F5 or whatever. This particular load balancer is restarting itself every time one of the Windows servers behind it fails a health check. Obviously not a desirable situation. A tenacious young tech not yet battle-hardened to the fallibility of hardware had been working on the load balancer for hours. Eventually throws his hands up and calls for a Windows guy 'cause obviously Windows must be doing something weird to make the Linux crash. Linux never crashes, amiright? Grizzled veteran that I am, I'm telling him to replace the RAM before he can finish explaining. If you can't fathom what the problem could be, if it really isn't DNS[0], it's probably going to be RAM. If it's not RAM... update your resume and burn everything to the ground. [0] https://www.cyberciti.biz/humour/a-haiku-about-dns/ https://www.cyberciti.biz/humour/a-haiku-about-dns/