I feel your pain
I am a corporate IT consultant and I can usually deal with boring stuff like 5 nines uptime but that missing 9 is a luxury that I can ill afford at home.
I now have two internet connections at home with a pfSense cluster after the last 20 min outage was unacceptable under the Wife Acceptance Factor terms and conditions. I also have to maintain a VMWare ESXi with several VMs just to support various strange applications that the WAF Ts&Cs also require. I have UPS and live in dread of the next major power outage happening during compulsory Facebook access time needing a bloody diesel genny. Where am I going to put it? ... and it will be too loud ...
Windows updates etc - she now runs Arch Linux on her laptop after I blew up Win7 yet again which I have managed to make look acceptable (God that took ages) Now I ssh in from work, after issuing a Wake on LAN, to run pacman and reboot it when she's out.
The day job is a piece of piss in comparison 8)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
