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Founder, GrowthSchool® ( 💰 by Sequoia & Owl Ventures )

I accidentally deleted the whole GrowthSchool website at 2am 🫣😖 Here is what happened: Just a background, GrowthSchool website is on WordPress and has over 200K users Obviously the kind of traffic and bandwidth it users, cloud bills are big. I was thinking to cut cloud costs so was trying to clear up all the unused instances. Saw one instance which said, " local host copy " When I clicked and checked, nothing happened. So I thought this was one of the old unused ones so I deleted it 😖 Turns out the instance name was due a bug - caching error And very soon I realised I didn't only delete the website but also all the backups. 😭 Thanks to the weird Google cloud instance. Oh btw, it's back now ( fixing final few minor bugs ) A18hrs of insane job by the team, We recovered 97% of the website from old backups and Google sheets. And till date we have fixed issues for most of the users. Now, why am I posting this? Could you simply said this happened due to technical error. Real reason : If we do something awesome, we speak about it. Why not when we screw up too :) It's ok to screwup, just make sure you don't do it for the second time. I am definitely not touching something I don't understand 🫣

Vaibhav Sisinty ↗️

Founder, GrowthSchool® ( 💰 by Sequoia & Owl Ventures )

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Also, if anyone is facing issues accessing their accounts, Please write to hi@growthschool.io Our support team will help you out :)

Kunal Arora

Building Growthmodo | I deploy digital marketing systems that truly boost your revenue and expand your audience 🚀

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200k users on wordpress is not a good decision. Also the production and experimentation enviroments should be different.

Stephy Paul

I know a thing or two about marketing 🕵🏽♀️🚀 #productmarketing #salesenablement#messaging #positioning #leadgeneration

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It's amazing to see someone at your level is posting screwups. Yet I am curious about something. You are the founder of GrowthSchool and you have the leverage of a great team. What if someone from your team had done this? I know for big companies, such a mistake would result in job loss. As a founder and team head, what would be your reaction, if someone from your team had messed up? Vaibhav Sisinty ↗️

Mayur Patil

Building zorat.io and postix.co | AI Expert | Transforming Businesses with AI LLM powered solutions | Educator ~ logicwaves.in

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Pity you still use Wordpress for 200K users to run the front of your business. You should think about Tech Stack. It's evident that businesses collapsed due to poor choice of Tech Stack meanwhile they are growing rapidly. Making things available to even read like WordPress Instance to the CEO or anyone is a disaster. The instances should not be available to anyone except the SPOC who manages the Cloud Infrastructure. What you said is true, you are sitting on a time bomb. It's a bitter truth.

Roshan Senapati

Senior System Engineer | Sales and Marketing Consultant

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why not make your website in coding:- Like reactjs it will help a whole lot

Swapnil Soni

Full Stack Developer | Web3 | Recognized Dev@XDA Forums | FOSS Dev | ME(V/R/A)N | N(E/U)XT | Web Automation | Web Security | Software Engineer | Problem Solver

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if mistakes and fixes can be converted into linkedin post content I'd be king of it

Mallikarjun PM

Data Science | MBA | M.Tech (NUS)

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No offence, but you found the guts to post this only because you’re the founder of your own product. An employee would never find the courage to post something like this; there would be “consequences” - direct or indirect. The amazing thing about this post is that you’ve taken ownership of the situation and didn’t rant too much about the flaws on GCP. That’s how leaders are supposed to be! All the best to you and your company :)

Manish Jain

Tech Advisor | Tech Architect | Product Development - Fintech, e-Commerce, SaaS, AI

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Vaibhav Sisinty ↗️ : Thanks for sharing. But is not touching something the solution to not repeat this mistake. What if this is done by someone in your team? You should actually create a process so that no one can delete production version of the website or any code and even if deleted can be restored in a matter of minutes.

Imaad Mohamed Khan

Data Science | Machine Learning | Mantissa DS Meetups and Webinars | Mentor

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A few questions that immediately come to my mind: 1. Do you not maintain separate environments for development and production? 2. Do you have a engineering team that takes care of the website? 3. If yes, why delete anything (even for cutting costs) without talking to the person in charge? 4. Did you not check if it was backed up before deleting? I think the last line in your post is the most important one. Be very careful when touching things that you don't understand. Specially while deleting. PS: If you talk about sharing screwups, you'll probably be sharing multiple posts within a day, so maybe it's better to focus on the awesome stuff. Glad to know things eventually worked out!

Akhthar Parvez

CEO @ TechBrein - Go Beyond with Cloud | Cloud Optimization Expert - AWS, Azure & Google Cloud | Cloud Migration Consultant | SaaS Consultant | Startup Mentor | Tech Speaker

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Hi Vaibhav, Sad to hear you accidentally deleted the live website which has 200K active users, but happy to hear you have almost overcome it successfully. I hope this whole incident made you stronger. I can understand how tough the very next 24 hours were for you and your team. Congratulations for getting back almost the entire website. And kudos to you speaking out publicly about this. I'm pretty sure this would give rest of the business owners the courage to be brave and a message that it's ok to be honest at the time of calamities like this instead of saying "Technical issues". Also I believe you tried to do something you didn't know because you couldn't find an expert to do it for you. TechBrein is expertised in Cloud cost optimization as well as Optimizing wordpress websites. Please get in touch if you would still like to get both of these done.

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