Devotion To Duty

by Jeff

Image text: The weird sense of duty really good sysadmins have can border on the sociopathic, but it's nice to know that it stands between the forces of darkness and your cat blog's servers.

This comic is a reference to the movie, Die Hard, in which Bruce Willis' character climbs through ventilation shafts and over broken glass to kill all the bad guys and rescue the hostages, including his wife.  That building was called the Nakatomi Plaza in the movie.

Uptime is just as it appears and is a measure of how much the servers are online vs. offline and usually is expressed in a %.