Make The Impossible Possibler.

We need a nice server on a nice pipe with a sysadmin attached.
What we have is me. They’ve given me 12 days.
(My response was “That’s fuckin’ impossible”. Followed by “What do we need to do to make it possible?” “Hire a good Network guy. They’re expensive, but worth it. Then, it might be possible” “Okay, hire a good sysadmin guy. Tell us who and how much.” “That alone will take more than 12 days” “Look, we need this done by the end of the month. We’re gonna have a lot of people coming to our site for this Battle in Seattle thing, and we have to be able to accomodate them all.” “Look, do you really think we are going to have to deal with that many people? Nobody even really cares about Charlize Theron” )

My ’solution’ is to hunt for a really talented sysadmin (we need SOMEBODY really talented working at MovieSet eventually) and while we’re hunting, just get a dedicated Flash Streaming Server (2) server with Influxis for a grand a month or whatever it costs. “We’ll burn through a terabyte in a few days” my ass. I doubt we’ll even need 500Gb for the first month. And then, $1/Gb can’t hurt us too much- still cheaper than buying 2 servers + 2 FMS2 licenses + colocation + setup….

I just can’t convince anybody that my solution is a good one.  Well, at least I can’t convince Chris of that.

Which brings me to the question: Where can I find a talented Networkjerk? Anybody good at pretending to be a master (or actually a master) can probably make some decent dough for a temporary basis (call it ‘contract work’).
The dark side calls you.. *oooOOooo*