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What is the worst IT setup you have seen at a company? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by gnutard@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Epzillon@lemmy.ml 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Using Filezilla FTP client for production releases in 2024 hit me hard

[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I must have missed that one, what's going on with Filezilla?

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Filezilla itself is not the problem. Deploying to production by hand is. Everything you do manually is a potential for mistakes. Forget to upload a critical file, accidentally overwrite a configuration… better automate that stuff.

[–] Epzillon@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

This. Starting at the company in 2023 and first task being to "start enhancing a 5 y/o project" seemed fine until I realized the project was not even using git, was being publically hosted online and contained ALL customer invoices and sales data. On top of this i had to pull the files down from the live server via FTP as it didnt exist anywhere else. It was kinda wild.

[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wait so the production release would consist of uploading the files with Filezilla?

If you can SSH into the server, why on earth use Filezilla?

[–] pinkystew@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Are you a software developer?

[–] sznowicki@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

It had a major security problem in like 2010. Later everyone moved to git and CI/CD so nobody knows what happened after that.