On Thu, December 8, 2011 5:01 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Dec 8, 2011 9:46 PM, "Jarry" <mr.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> This server is ~50 miles away, and if I screw something >> and it does not boot up, I will have to go there and fix it >> on place. One small typo in ~50 config-files which must be >> updated is just enough to cause it... >> > > That's why I no longer deploy baremetal servers these days. Always as a > VM > on top of a hypervisor, with a small VM dedicated as an SSH tunnel. If I > mess up, I can use the hypervisor management tool to reboot the VM, or > open > a console session, or even revert to a "known good" state.
A seperate machine with serial-console or Ethernet-KVM on the mainboard also helps. Especially when updating the host :) My new servers will all have Ethernet-KVM for this reason. -- Joost
