Ok, the other thing I did was lower the number of posts per page for the main page. It's gone down from 4 to 2. That did improve system load times.

Oh the thread, I see.

One of the main reasons I was thinking Cisco was due to the ability to get in SFPs to hook into anything I needed. Core switches, straight fiber into my servers, who knows what I could do.

The Mikrotik gear has multiple SFPs plus switching gear to handle anything. So jacking into my Cisco gear over fiber is a snap, or I can go up to 10G and get real hard core.

One of these:

http://routerboard.com/CCR1009-8G-1S

And one of these:

http://routerboard.com/CRS125-24G-1S-2HnD-IN

I can run anything at that setup, it will never choke on bandwidth. Time to whip out the AMEX, I've got a purchase to make.

@g.jacobse said:

I'm not sure if I had heard of ownCloud previously but am curious. Searching shows a .ORG and .COM.

From @scottalanmiller comment, it appears to be .COM - though I see it's an openSource project.

How would something like this compare to using SharePoint? Or would it sit side by side?

ownCloud is open source and available commercially hosted by the oem. They are here in MangoLassi too @kelleybrooks

It's not SharePoint, that's an application platform. ownCloud is a cloud storage system, a la DropBox or OneDrive.

@scottalanmiller said:

at ten users AD is normally overkill

That's why we have Samba. And, with Samba 4, you should be able to integrate the box into O365's AD structure. SSO anyone?

@technobabble said:

@thanksaj in my example I would need to find an new unopened Asus PT6 motherboard. At this time only thing available is new opened boxes from Hong Kong and China. There are some used ones available too.

NOS could be found as clearanced items since they are new items but old stock that most people don't want. Like a brand new 8GB harddrive from Maxtor.

Ok, got it. Refurbished might be your best bet for that class of stuff then.

@JaredBusch
I had the wrong version installed.. Support sent me:

ME ServiceDesk (Plus)

@JaredBusch Thanks man..fixed that.

Do you know where to add the code snippet?

I used to be command line only,.. in DOS.

It's been so many years,.. I don't know if I can forge my brain back to using a term.

There we go, we got it.

Actually it was a bug in NodeBB. And now there appears to be another bug. Looks like we are hitting a number of issues with the 0.5.3 update. We've seen YouTube embedding break and now links are breaking.

@Texkonc said:

That is like saying Raid is a type of backup..... 😄
Sorry that I am late to the party, my bus broke down.

Whoa, Tex is here!

The Solarwinds Real Time Bandwidth Monitor is what I was thinking of.

"Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results." -- Narcotics Anonymous

I don't remember what doesn't support it, but that's true, from what I was told and what I have experienced. I can't speak for the KB article. Which article ID?

I agree, maybe there is a way. But that's not a priority at the moment 🙂

Another fine example of NOT understanding how the web works.

The page above http://esx.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-vsa-overview should have been redirected to http://esx.starwindsoftware.com/ which I believe is the page you were expecting.

www should redirect to http (or vise versa), personally I prefer http.

Redirects are CRUCIAL in keeping search engines happy as well as providing the end user (@scottalanmiller) from experiencing crap instead of a webpage.

I wish I was the web developer/marketer for StarWind!

@Dashrender Hell I don't know...swimming in unknown waters here...but glad to have you guys on the shore if I need assistance.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender I mean are we really suggesting that they are stuck in the 90s rather than ripping him off?

Sadly - Yes. It's probably a combination. But they haven't looked at updating their process. They are an HD recovery factory. They want to deal with HDs.

Also, it's probably pretty rare for someone to only have 8 GB of data they want/need recovered. While as long as it's less than 128 GB, they could still go with a memory stick pretty easily, I'm sure they don't want to maintain multiple stocked devices.