Posted on: April 28th, 2009 by Famous Phil

A good place to introduce this topic is by stating that I consider myself a “good” system administrator.  I consider myself above average when it comes to Windows Server administration, and “average” when it comes to Linux server administration.  Normally, regardless of platform (Linux or Windows), I usually know enough not to get myself into trouble, yet rectify the problem that is presented to me.

Prior to last October (2008), I have solved a wide array of problems consisting of Apache malfunctions and complete Server Hard Drive failures requiring data recovery, to simply having to unblock a person’s ip address from the firewall because they tried to login to the server incorrectly too many times.  I never really messed a server up so badly that I couldn’t undo what I attempted to fix in the first place.

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