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I pushed an infinite loop into our deployment process which took down the site and got us rate limited and suspended by Heroku. It also caused elevated failure rates on their whole service enough that status.heroku.com had a yellow message about the situation.
Once removed a Tomcat server while trying to remove symlink. Fortunately was a internal server for CI that was being implemented.
And other time deleted a production database. Fortunately there was a morning backup and lost 3 articles
First webmaster gig and first formal job. Learning FTP accidentally deleted a whole Wordpress site. Almost got fired on my first day.
Sounds like their screw-up to me! First day on the job and they have you "learning" FTP on the server with important sites on it?
Accident waiting to happen.
Yeah the company management and infrastructure were missing hahahaha
Hope the company had the proper source control etc. and it was just a matter of redeploy? Or not...? :)
No it didn't. Infrastructure was not a word in that company hahaha. I got lucky because there was another copy of it in an old HDD
Oh man, so it was fun! ;)
Two things, both on a large Wordpress installation:
One of my calculations worked backwards. The internal testing was manually triggering the fake passage of time by increasing the number of days, and it worked perfectly. As soon as it went to live I realised it was supposed to be x - y, not y - x and the whole thing ran backwards. read: it didn't work.
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sudo rm -r -f /*
Oh no! How dare you?! ;)