I always made sure I had monit to keep services alive and a init.d scripts that boot all necessary services when the box starts up. Avoid single point of failu

I always made sure I had monit to keep services alive and a init.d scripts that boot all necessary services when the box starts up. Avoid single point of failures as much as possible. Minimize unbounded queries and always set a reasonable request timeout. Have away to collect stats (statds is nice) The reality is yeah you probably are not gonna have many restful nights or peaceful dinners... 10 years later for me and I still avoid activities that don’t allow me to quickly access a computer. I still always have multiple mifis in my backpack to ensure if one cell network is not good maybe the other one is good enough for me to fix a server... you have to kind of enjoy it