While acting as vice president of a performance-based Internet marketing company, I oversaw the migration to a new infrastructure, an important part of which involved changing over 300 of our DNS records. Imagine my horror when I discovered that we’d mistakenly misrouted nearly all of those records, taking the entire company down.
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