What Are You Doing Right Now
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Suffering for 8 hours
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Why the hell do non-IT people question the recommendation of IT, just because you want to use a piece of software doesn't make it the best solution. Use what you're told, not what you want to spend money on or have heard about.
GAH, users.
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Good morning all.
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@scottalanmiller Morning.
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More fun times with Failover Cluster Manager and SCVMM.
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Fixing new caller with an Exchange Server issue.
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@dbeato and funny because Im working on a exchange 2010 issue...yes 2010!!! UGH
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@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato and funny because Im working on a exchange 2010 issue...yes 2010!!! UGH
We will finally be off Exchange 2010 this week (fingers crossed), so you're not the only one with on-prem ugh.
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Learning about MeshCentral 2 and Vultr, since I constantly read good things about both and I haven't really looked into either of them before.
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@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Learning about MeshCentral 2 and Vultr, since I constantly read good things about both and I haven't really looked into either of them before.
We run MC on Vultr, great time to play with both at once!
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@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Learning about MeshCentral 2 and Vultr, since I constantly read good things about both and I haven't really looked into either of them before.
I just jumped in and learned both. I just have the $6 a month server and it is working fine for about 40-50 client machines and three support people. Server hasn't broken a sweat yet.
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@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Learning about MeshCentral 2 and Vultr, since I constantly read good things about both and I haven't really looked into either of them before.
I just jumped in and learned both. I just have the $6 a month server and it is working fine for about 40-50 client machines and three support people. Server hasn't broken a sweat yet.
That's the same size that we use and it works great with dozens of users and hundreds of devices. It doesn't even begin to use the RAM.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Learning about MeshCentral 2 and Vultr, since I constantly read good things about both and I haven't really looked into either of them before.
I just jumped in and learned both. I just have the $6 a month server and it is working fine for about 40-50 client machines and three support people. Server hasn't broken a sweat yet.
That's the same size that we use and it works great with dozens of users and hundreds of devices. It doesn't even begin to use the RAM.
Good to know! I like no worries.
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@scottalanmiller Pricing and features look quite nice, so I figured I'd try it out. Plus, they gave a $5 credit when I signed up, so with the $5 instance, that is one month free :thumbs_up:
It sounds like I could have used one of the cheaper instances, since this is for a small number of my family members' machines, but having only 10GB for the OS seems a bit light to me.
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@srsmith If I only had the time. I really, really need to get one of these going.
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@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
It sounds like I could have used one of the cheaper instances, since this is for a small number of my family members' machines, but having only 10GB for the OS seems a bit light to me.
No, dropping to cost below $5 means huge reduction is available RAM. You'd be quite sorry as the machine would be thrashing that low, I'd expect. The number of users or machines attached have extremely little impact on system resources. Those aren't the resource users.
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From what we've seen, I'd guess that even ten thousand machines and a few hundred users would have no real impact on resources. Users, especially, are nothing but text entries in the database and even a hundred thousand users would barely do a thing.
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To keep resources down, the most important thing is keeping your OS lean, and avoiding MongoDB for the install. MongoDB is the biggest effort to manage, and the biggest consumer of resources for a large install. And no one, AFAIK, has seen an install so large as to benefit from MongoDB yet.
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@scotth Setting up a new Vultr account / instance was super quick. Within 15 minutes of signing up, I was connecting to a new Ubuntu 19.04 instance on a subdomain of my domain.
I suspect the "hard" part is going to be digesting all of the various configuration options for MC so that I install it securely with a proper Let's Encrypt certificate.
