Storage Question
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@scottalanmiller said:
@BRRABill said:
I've thought about it, but for various reasons I do not want to go that route now. MDaemon has been great for us.
It's definitely in the future cards, though. We've been burned a few times with week-long power losses.
Only issue would be that you are making your infrastructure decisions now and have to include this in there.
This! So this! If you are considering moving - and considering solving your power issues - now's the time to look at changing it all for the better.
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Who me? East Coast. Right in between Philly and NYC.
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@BRRABill said:
@MattSpeller said:
@BRRABill said:
week-long power losses.
Good grief
Notice the -es in that.
Happened twice in the span of 3 years.
I guess that is a good barometer of how we operate here. We knew the storms were coming, so I made sure everyone had a alternative e-mail address. We were also able to access our backups in the cloud, so I could grab any files anyone needed.
Kludgy, but it works.
With hosted email, everyone could go home (or elsewhere) and keep working as if nothing had happened.
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@Dashrender said:
Wow - you should move everything to a colocated DC... use ZeroTier and have nothing onsite... then you can work from anywhere. Then to fix your phone system to do the same.
Good point, any reason you've not looked at colocation options for that one server?
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My next incarnation of moves will be offsite.
For this one, I wanted to keep everything here still.
When the power went down, we did co-lo the server, and no one liked it. Of course, it could have been better configured. But just too many moves at once.
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@BRRABill said:
Who me? East Coast. Right in between Philly and NYC.
What town? So glad that I don't live up there with those issues. We don't power or Internet outage issues like that here in Central America.
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@scottalanmiller said:
What town? So glad that I don't live up there with those issues. We don't power or Internet outage issues like that here in Central America.
Lawrenceville, NJ. More closely between Trenton and Pricenton.
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
What town? So glad that I don't live up there with those issues. We don't power or Internet outage issues like that here in Central America.
Lawrenceville, NJ. More closely between Trenton and Pricenton.
Ever go to the Wegmans there in Princeton? I put in their server in 2005. Wow that was a long time ago. I lived in North Brunswick in 2006.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Ever go to the Wegmans there in Princeton? I put in their server in 2005. Wow that was a long time ago. I lived in North Brunswick in 2006.
Small world, right?
Yeah I used to go there all the time. Haven't been there in a while. That's about 5 minutes from me.
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Nice, I'm in Granada, Nicaragua, these days.
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Just out of curiosity...
Why not add more threads to this, right?
If I were colo this new server. Is that a total relocation?
Or do you still need to keep something in house?
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Nice, I'm in Granada, Nicaragua, these days.
Any Wegman's there?
No, we have La Colonia.
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@BRRABill said:
If I were colo this new server. Is that a total relocation?
Or do you still need to keep something in house?
Depends on your specific needs. Generally no, but generally is 70% of the time, guesstimate. NTG went 100% colo about ten years ago, zero in house servers. Then went 100% cloud, nearly there now. So zero physical servers anywhere.
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@BRRABill said:
Why not add more threads to this, right?
It takes a lot of different thought processes to get through an entire system redesign!
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@BRRABill said:
Or do you still need to keep something in house?
Mostly depends on a combination of what kind of access you need and what kind of WAN link you have.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Depends on your specific needs. Generally no, but generally is 70% of the time, guesstimate. NTG went 100% colo about ten years ago, zero in house servers. Then went 100% cloud, nearly there now. So zero physical servers anywhere.Is it still an AD environment?
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File servers often need to be local, but not always. We moved to tools like SharePoint / OneDrive for Business and ownCloud and did away with traditional file servers ourselves. But that is not for everyone.
What kind of file serving do you do? Our AD is 100% on Microsoft Azure and has been for some time now. That's easy to move to 100% colo or hosted. Email can go hosted very, very easily. File serving is your only potetial challenge.
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@scottalanmiller said:
File servers often need to be local, but not always. We moved to tools like SharePoint / OneDrive for Business and ownCloud and did away with traditional file servers ourselves. But that is not for everyone.
What kind of file serving do you do? Our AD is 100% on Microsoft Azure and has been for some time now. That's easy to move to 100% colo or hosted. Email can go hosted very, very easily. File serving is your only potetial challenge.
Right. E-mail I know 100% I can do. I just want to do that in the future. (Though co-locatiing the MDaemon server would not be out of the question in the near future.)
We do all sorts of file hosting. A lot of office files, but also all sorts of other business-related documents. Peachtree. Desktop DB files. Things like that. Is that what you meant?
