Likely Normal

IT equipment manufacturers predict your server’s death with the eerie precision of a psychic octopus, and you’re left playing financial roulette with extended warranties. It’s like buying a car where the manual says, “Engine will explode on mile 100,001—good luck!” and the dealership offers “Premium Doomsday Insurance” for just three times the original price. Of course, you roll the dice, because who needs “predictable uptime” when you’ve got “budget constraints” and a delusional belief in your hardware’s “special resilience”?

Then comes the exact day the standard support expires, and—shockingly—your server decides it’s time to mimic the Titanic. The fans scream like a dying teakettle, the RAID array starts writing its will, and suddenly you’re on the phone with accounting, begging for emergency funds while muttering “I told you so” into a stress ball. The real joke? That “extended warranty” you skipped now feels way cheaper than the “weekend disaster recovery bender” you’re about to pull.

It’s a beautiful dance of corporate optimism (“It’ll last!”) vs. cold, hard data (“LOL no”). So here’s to the IT teams everywhere, caught between spreadsheets and server obituaries, may your uptime be long, your warranties longer, and your CFO’s approval faster than a failing power supply.