The IT guy at my company, before me, had setup two servers. One was a Gateway/Firewall/DHCP Server. I can live with that, after all, if either of those three goes down, you can't access the internet anyway.
The second server supplied the following tasks: DNS, FTP, Email, Files, and archives. I had issues with this, because I had said that if this machine ever has a serious problem, we would not be able to access the internet, use the ftp, send or receive emails, access any of our current jobs, nor could we retreive any old jobs. Effectively, the company would come to a complete stop. As you can imaging, restarting this box durning normal business hours was not an option.
Two weeks ago, that machine went belly up... and it's a macintosh server.... good luck with figuring out how the damn thing even worked, right?
Very long story short, it took me 2 1/2 days (including overtime and saturday) but had opted to rebuild the network from scratch (like I had previously done for the rest of the systems). We now have an Email/FTP box, a file server box, and an internet related box. While 4 boxes would be best, this will do just fine. At least now, I can reboot one of them without taking the whole company with it. What a dumbass that other guy is.
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