I’m an IT Manager in a Linux CentOS environment. The most uptime I have in any of my servers is 452 days because we have decent but sometimes unstable power in Southern California. I got my first couple UPS boxes right before the pandemic as we had nothing before. Still need about 4 more bigger ones. This environment has been a work in progress tho... when I started here 3 years ago there were no backups AT ALL, no disaster recovery, the only infrastructure vms where on a CentOS 4 kvm box with a 100mbps NIC. Oh and the worst offense other than the backup situation. Was all 5 48 port switches were bloody daisy chained!!!!! WTF. Anyways we now have a core 10 gig switch with 10 gig SFP connection going out to each of the 6 48 port 500 watt POE switches. Before we also had a regular consumer router just shoved above the ceiling tiles with its own built in firewall turned on 😏. These have been replaced with 3 unifi xg AP. We also now have automatic SonicWall firewall failover. 2 separate ISP connections that are load balanced so if one fails the other kicks in in milliseconds.

Also KVM is replaced with 2 VMware servers with vcenter and automatic veeam backups to our NAS. All this is mirrored to a wasabi S3 bucket as well for disaster recovery. Anyways there’s so much more... I’m just tired.. really tired. I’ve had to do all this myself. I will finally be getting a Desktop Support person after the pandemic and then a sysadmin prob about a year after that. Anyone else had to fix a mess like this before??? Anything this bad? I’m just tired.. real tired...