>>29422302The possibility of hardware failure on those 2 servers were the deep hidden horror on the DBA's worst nightmare.
One of them didn't even had VGA video output. They used some kind of proprietary output for sun monitors and since CRTs die we didn't had a functional monitor to plug on then.
Instead we had this old as fuck laptop with 2 serial ports each one connected to the Sun servers through custom made serial cables.
This was Dexter's uptime before he went to sleep forever. There was a major power outage in the neighbourhood that year so it isn't that great.