Comment by beachstartup
10 years ago
> Also, tell your clients to back their stuff up with their own methods, too, just in case you come under heavy attack
you would be shocked at the number of people who get upset when you advise them to make their own backups, and interpret this as an indictment of the reliability of your own backup procedures.
e.g. "isn't that what we pay you for???"
nevertheless, do it anyway and let them fume. there are no prerequisites for running a business and you'll find that many absolute morons are at the helm of some nominally successful businesses.
Agreed. Whenever I hear a self important IT person saying "this place WILL go under without me" I know I'm dealing with someone delusional or inexperienced.
A company of any size can continue on even if severely crippled with nobody left who understands how anything works. I've seen it time and again - also even where I've felt I was important.
Minimal viable product and vendor lock ins are powerful real world things.