@Carnival-Boy said:

@JaredBusch said:

You always mix too much big business/enterprise concepts into the SMB space. No matter how "things should be," things are much different between the two.

Agree with this. It's a bit like you wouldn't expect the violinist in an orchestra to have any input on the trombonist, but a bass player in a rock band could have input on the drummer.

I'm not talking about having input, I'm talking about playing the trombone on his behalf while he watches. Did the CFO have any financial input? It appears that @NetworkNerd was asked to over see all of the financial portions. Maybe I am misreading it, but that is what it sounded like. That the finance department turned over all aspects of finance, even those parts that IT can not know (like the need for capex versus opex) to the IT department.

That is nothing like "getting input" from a concerned department.

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

How come they don't fail over the VMs to another server, then update the original server move them back and so on as to make it an update with no down time?

Cloud is not high availability. That's a very common misconception. Cloud is beneath the HA layer. Anyone who had HA stayed up and running, of course, but cloud itself is not HA.

They easily could have chosen to do so, but the workload would not offset the cost I am sure.

Not really, because you can only do so much HA at that layer. Not every workload can be made HA in that way. But more importantly, HA is always an option and most importantly, HA is something you do, not something that you buy. But anyone who had an outage, like us, chose to not pay for HA because it is cheaper to have blips than to have the cost of HA.

It's really the end users who opted out of HA.

@Minion-Queen said:

WHO WHO WHO!! Inquiring minds want to know

Meet this guy: http://community.spiceworks.com/people/davesampson.

The Chromebook market has done an excellent job of making really nice, attractive, low cost laptops. Why no one else is making stuff as nice is anyone's guess. If I was a sub $300 laptop that looks and works great, I have very few options. But if I go to the Chromebook world suddenly I am overspending at that price!

@thecreativeone91 said:

The only real reason I would see for not going with thin provisions would be poor planning and then running out of space. otherwise I don't see a issue or reason not to go with it if it's planned well.

That is a surprisingly common fear that I have heard.

That sucks. You are probably stuck with a commercial solution then.

Those look so cool. I am glad to see that they were able to get the first shipment out the door. Hopefully these really take off.

@scottalanmiller said:

Can you run PowerShell in it?

<insert cranky comment> 😛 lol

@nadnerB said (an hour earlier):

The console programs has, in my case been configured to utilise cmd.exe but **can also be configured to utilise powershell.exe. **

Bad Domain machine accounts, I'm hearing more and more about those lately.

@Dashrender said:

Take a look at the app Forum Runner - it's designed for something exactly like this - heck perhaps forum runner can plug into nobebb (is that the right name?)

Correct, NodeBB. The "Node Bulletin Board" built on the Node.js framework.

This is pretty exciting. Those new switches look great. Loaded with features. They are not stackable, but they do have 10GigE uplinks in them and they are all PoE!

Macs only exist to operate in a Windows world. It is an assumed context.

That explains it 🙂

@scottalanmiller said:

Magic

When it doubt, chalk it up to magic. Lol

Would you mind submitting....

www.kiddingaroundeurope.com
community.kiddingaroundeurope.com

Thanks!

About freaking time.

@StrongBad said:

I was wondering what had happened to you 🙂

In all fairness, I wasn't actually tagged in this post.

New to me, thanks for the heads up. Will definitely be checking these out.

@ajstringham said:

@Dashrender said:

@ajstringham said:

@JaredBusch said:

@NetworkNerd said:

I think if they offered their product with some kind of backup to a cloud target it would be a little better. But I agree it is worth a shot for backup targets, etc.

I found it interesting that they were not trying to be a Cloud Backup solution. hell they are not even trying to be a backup solution. They are simply making a use for unused space.

There is a plethora of choice when it comes to cloud data storage. I think this may be a smarter move to skip it. Maybe a partnership for a sync to offsite kinda thing would work for them.

I could see them partnering with Box or Dropbox as a beneficial partnership.

I think they would be better served with real cloud backup, not a sync solution.

Why do you say that?

What is your goal? I think we are struggling to picture the use case that you are picturing. If you have cloud storage, how are you using Aetherstore? And vice versa?

@scottalanmiller said:

I find that if I set my DNS as the first task that I do, normally it is working by the time that I need it.

The DNS nameservers were already set. I'm hosting the server on my own hardware. It's waiting for that nameserver to propagate the info out to the world. Probably another couple hours and we'll be good. I just wanted the initial wordpress setup stuff done before the site hit the www.