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A few days after deploying a big important Website into production, I wanted to copy the whole thing including DB back onto our test server for future testing/bug fixing if something comes up. (Last changes were done on production server before going live)
So I opened SSH, removed everything on the test sever aaaaand then I realized I was connected to production...
Took about an hour to get everything up and running again. We didn't tell the client and hoped it would not be noticed.

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  • 1
    There should be a big warning like: "Heads up you're entering production" to notify us. I did the exact same thing with some windows services. Uninstalled some of them, did some testing and after a couple of hours I receive emails that the application is not working anymore... to this date they don't know I messed up, just told them I fixed a big bug directly into production.
  • 2
    You can set a message to show when you ssh into something, no?
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