Servers Quotes
When a site stalls or traffic spikes, talk shifts to the machines behind it. These 19 quotes touch on load‑balancing tricks, costly hardware buys—like WordPress.com’s misstep—and the notion that a hardened web server protects like an armored car. For IT tips, see related threads on cloud scaling and network reliability.
![“Using clouds is a radical way of consuming IT. There are emotional barriers to giving up some level of control over the servers that you are running [for the companies].” quote by Werner Vogels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1eb/werner-vogels-49537_barriers_using-clouds-is-a-radical-way-of-consumi_89327.jpg)
![“Thus even as servers die or are put to sleep, even as operating systems come and go, I can carry the work forward-despite all of the progress around me. [...] But really, no complaints-it's fun to wander around in the middle of so much waste and progress, and I'd rather be here than anywhere. You…” quote by Paul Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ca0/paul-ford-50002_comes-and-goes_thus-even-as-servers-die-or-are-put-to-s_409754.jpg)
![“Bill Baker, a distinguished engineer at Microsoft, quipped that we used to treat servers like pets: “You name them and when they get sick, you nurse them back to health. [Now] servers are [treated] like cattle. You number them and when they get sick, you shoot them.” quote by Gene Kim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e7b/gene-kim-2268_health_bill-baker-a-distinguished-engineer-at-m_187582.jpg)
