https://rightfittech.github.io/RightFit TechnologyA blog by Ashton Mellott 2026-06-26T11:50:33-04:00 Ashton Mellott https://rightfittech.github.io/ Jekyll © 2026 Ashton Mellott /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png The On-Call Survival Guide: Lessons From 7,300 Nights of Maybe Getting Paged2026-06-26T09:00:00-04:00 2026-06-26T09:00:00-04:00 https://rightfittech.github.io/posts/on-call-survival-guide/ Ashton Mellott Twenty years on the pager, told as dark comedy — the go-bag, the 3 a.m. dread, the gloriously dumb false alarms, and the one lesson that outranks every runbook. The Day I Ran rm -rf / on a Production Server (With No Backups)2026-06-24T10:00:00-04:00 2026-06-24T10:00:00-04:00 https://rightfittech.github.io/posts/rm-rf-production-server/ Ashton Mellott A long-time Linux user, a physical production server with no backups, and one command that wasn't quite the one everyone fears. Here's the outage I caused — and how we clawed it back.