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Network Dictionary — Server Hugger

November 27, 2008 by Greg Ferro · Leave a Comment 

This Post is Part of a Series — click for list on Network Dictionary»

Server Hugger — a sysad­min who like to able to touch their serv­ers, typ­ic­ally to the point of obses­sion. Thus they must have data cen­ters in their build­ing or very nearby (which is becom­ing increas­ingly difficult).

As read on GigaOM
Trailer Park 2.0: Where your data lives.

Server hug­gers like being near their serv­ers -– they feel that the emo­tional well-​​being and effi­cient oper­a­tion of their serv­ers requires them to be phys­ic­ally close at all times.

In my exper­i­ence these people fit one of the fol­low­ing categories:

  • young and inexperienced
  • insec­ure and lack­ing in suf­fi­cient know­ledge /​ train­ing
  • inflated sense of worth
  • work­ing on really old soft­ware and hard­ware that needs con­stant upgrades.
  • com­pany has not inves­ted in KVM equip­ment — even though it costs less than the administrator’s time these days.

It is now a given that Server Virtualization and Cloud Computing will make this type of per­son extinct in the near future.

List of Posts in this series:
  1. Network Dictionary — Freelance
  2. Network Dictionary — Resume Generating Events
  3. Network Dictionary — Scalable
  4. Network Dictionary — magic hand wave
  5. Network Dictionary — NAT’d
  6. Network Dictionary — Pain Relief Technology
  7. Network Dictionary — work­shop
  8. Network Dictionary — Process Humping
  9. Network Dictionary — appsel­la­tion
  10. Network Dictionary — Spinning Rust
  11. Network Dictionary — Server Hugger
  12. Network Dictionary — Facepalm
  13. Network Dictionary — Nortard
  14. Network Dictionary — Ciscotist
  15. Network Dictionary — long­horn
  16. Network Dictionary — IEEEdiot
  17. Network Dictionary — foo
  18. Network Dictionary — Ethereal
  19. Network Dictionary — Signal Slope
  20. Network Dictionary — lever­age
  21. Network Dictionary — Microsoft Standard
  22. Network Dictionary — Brandalize
  23. Network Dictionary — Blamestorming
  24. Network Dictionary — CCIE Pounds
  25. Network Dictionary — borked
  26. Network Dictionary — tech­nobabble
  27. Network Dictionary — Markenauts
  28. Network Dictionary — Implementation
  29. Network Dictionary — Distributed Attention
  30. Network Dictionary — func­tion­al­ity
  31. Network Dictionary — cof­fice
  32. Network Dictionary — Rubber Duck Debugging
  33. Network Dictionary — Unicorn Tears
  34. Network Dictionary —  survivor’s bias
  35. Network Dictionary — IPocalypse
  36. Network Dictionary — slugged
  37. Network Dictionary — Project Manager
  38. Network Dictionary — Sanity Cheque
  39. Network Dictionary — goodth­ing
  40. Network Dictionary: Fun Detector
  41. Network Dictionary: Cock Blocked
  42. Network Dictionary — TACrathon
  43. Network Dictionary — Backhoe Attenuation
  44. Network Dictionary — heater
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