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The great thing about having unfettered physical access to hardware is that you can easily recover from mistakes like this. No need to rebuild that EC2 instance
by kijin 2y ago
The great thing about having unfettered physical access to hardware is that you can easily recover from mistakes like this. No need to rebuild that EC2 instance. No need to beg a hosting company for IPMI access. You can just pull the plug and try again as if were your own PC.
- jiggunjer 2y agoIsn't it the same with something like idrac?
- bigiain 2y agoOn the other hand, it's nice to be able to take a no-reboot AMI of the machine you're futzing with, risk breaking it, then just re provision from that AMI if you fucked up. And if you're chasing three or four nines of uptime you do the same but provision a new instance and futz with that one while your working one keeps on keeping on. Even big instances are cheap enough by the hour that you can afford to run and extra one while testing potentially breaking changes.