Honestly @ray363 I used to blow off maintenance too but that 3k bill changed my whole view real fast.

Three hours really isn't that long for a production outage (I've seen people take down entire companies for a weekend). People act like a three hour downtime is the end of the world but really it's just a learning moment. Your boss will forget about it in a week, trust me. The real problem is the panic and rushing which makes people do dumb things like not testing on a staging database first. Jakel36 is right that testing on a copy should be step one every time. So yeah it sucks but three hours isn't worth beating yourself up over forever.

Used to swear by hydros but this build totally changed my mind.

Told you so is the best currency at the ATM...

Is it really that bad though?