# Small company woes

<datetime class="hidden">2004-01-14T00:00</datetime>
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As some you already know, I work for a small company ([StormId](http://www.stormid.com)),
now normally, this is fine and dandy - I have a good deal of input into what happens
here, its' easy to cut through what little red tape there is etc..

A big problem with small companies is the lack of specialists in certain areas, for
example we have no DBA and no System Administrator here - they just aren't cost effective
in such a small business.

So, when, as happened today, one of the servers gets totally knackered, this is a
major problem - this server also happens to run the Exchange server so we have no
email provision at the moment!

Anyway, thought I'd have a gripe at my 3 regular readers :-)