I still remember the bewildered look on my face when, as a child, I was playing with the front-loader of our brand-new VCR. It was a state-of-the-art Video 2000 system back then, which, upon pressing the eject button, didn’t actually eject the tape but instead burst into flames.
The resounding slap my father gave me wasn’t entirely unjustified—after all, shoving the tape in three or four times was unnecessary. But did the damn thing have to catch fire right away?
Yesterday, I probably looked just as gormless while experimenting with modules on my homepage. At first, the site stopped responding, then I noticed the CPU usage hitting 100%, until everything just froze.
Luckily, I had created a backup using Akeeba, a Joomla module, and managed to get the site back online fairly quickly. For the Proxmox users out there: I just tested whether the Joomla container can be cloned. In the future, I’ll be mirroring the site regularly to activate it whenever needed—it’s much faster than restoring a backup. You never stop learning.
Oh, and the story with the VCR had a happy ending. My father took the charred remains back to the shop, traded them in for a cheaper VHS-format device—for which rental tapes were actually available—and walked away with the cash difference.
