{"id":7838,"date":"2014-07-25T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/?p=7838"},"modified":"2014-07-25T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T14:49:00","slug":"celebrating-sysadmin-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/celebrating-sysadmin-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating SysAdmin Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Known affectionately throughout Heart Internet as &lsquo;SysAdmin&rsquo;, &lsquo;Sys&rsquo;, and some slightly more NSFW names (they&rsquo;re a vital part of our close family and all the highs and lows that come with that!), our SysAdmins are our behind-the-scenes heroes. Between them they work around the clock doing a huge variety of essential tasks, including&hellip;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monitoring our systems and fixing any issues on a minute-by-minute basis.<\/li>\n<li>Devising ingenious ways to make everything better and more efficient all the time.<\/li>\n<li>Keeping your websites and email up &#8211; and speedy.<\/li>\n<li>Collaborating on, implementing and scaling everything from Microsoft Exchange to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/web-hosting\" target=\"_blank\">cloud hosting platforms<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Long-term projects, including upgrading hardware and software to be the latest and greatest it can be, and other secret tasks that help us stay ahead of the game.<\/li>\n<li>Investigating and removing illegal content and generally reducing the amount of junk on the internet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If there&rsquo;s a DDoS attack at 2am on a Saturday, it&rsquo;s a SysAdmin who investigates, blocks it, and collaborates with our Support team to fix the issue before you&rsquo;re even aware it&rsquo;s happened.<\/p>\n<p>If there&rsquo;s a status page update, it&rsquo;s a SysAdmin who&rsquo;s added the info they&rsquo;ve uncovered so far whilst simultaneously working on the issue along with other designated members of the team (they see it as a personal challenge to fix a problem before anyone&rsquo;s had time to report an issue).<\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;ve noticed your email seems to be running a bit slower than usual, you can guarantee that a SysAdmin is already working on it (their favourite phrase is &lsquo;We KNOW&rsquo;).<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sysadmin-day.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kaptainkobold\/5359290323\/in\/photostream\" target=\"_blank\">Original image credit<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>If there&rsquo;s a power cut and the office internet dies simultaneously (because an unnamed large company has accidentally cut through a wire outside and it&rsquo;s affected the whole neighbourhood), you can guarantee it&rsquo;s a SysAdmin working in the pitch black to ensure emergency backups are in place so our Support team can carry on as normal (there was a lot of thanking of chosen deities for phones that are also torches that night).<\/p>\n<p>SysAdmin also includes our abuse team, which means they&rsquo;re exposed to a depressing amount of copyrighted, horrific and downright illegal content on a regular basis. It&rsquo;s the abuse team&rsquo;s job to ensure that all our servers remain clean and legal, and every day they free the web of content that no one should ever be exposed to.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sysadmin-day2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ansik\/3218139011\/\" target=\"_blank\">Original image credit<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It takes a special sort of person to be a SysAdmin. Not only is there a crazy amount of technical skill and knowledge involved, you also have to be an epic problem-solver and incredibly patient (our favourite <a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/705\/\" target=\"_blank\">XKCD cartoon<\/a> isn&rsquo;t actually too far from the truth).<\/p>\n<p>Happily, today&rsquo;s the national day where SysAdmins everywhere are celebrated for their services to the internet. And instead of giving them a day off, they&rsquo;re having pizza instead&#8230;when we can drag them away from their desks for five minutes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sysadmin-day3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Let&#39;s get started!<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sysadmin-day4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Not even celebration pizza can break their concentration!<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sysadmin-day5.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sysadmin-day6.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>That&#39;s more like it!<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sysadmin-day7.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sysadmin-day8.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;re incredibly lucky to have the brainpower of our SysAdmin team; they include some of the industry&rsquo;s best talent and quirkiest characters.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sysadmin-day9.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sysadminday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Happy SysAdmin Day!<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sysadmin-day10.jpg\"> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known affectionately throughout Heart Internet as &lsquo;SysAdmin&rsquo;, &lsquo;Sys&rsquo;, and &lsquo;that bunch of [insert expletive]&rsquo; (they&rsquo;re a vital part of our close family and all the highs and lows that come with that!), our SysAdmins are our behind-the-scenes heroes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-heart-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}