That's the issue with buying a server every 10 years. You lose track of this stuff.

MangoCon ticket!

@Dashrender said

from where?

Rochester?

@RojoLoco said in The Friday Fun Blog!:

@ChrisL said in The Friday Fun Blog!:

@RojoLoco said in The Friday Fun Blog!:

@ChrisL said in The Friday Fun Blog!:

Check it out here or you can click this bitly to make my life easier here.

Man, f@ck yo shawty links!!!!

Then click the other one!

I SHALL CLICK NOTHING!!!!!!!

That doesn't sound fun.

So, to take a step back...

We are a smallish shop. We used to have 60-70 employees in our heyday, now we have 15.

We currently have 4 DELL Windows 2003 servers. A PDC that is also our data server. A BDC that is basically just a BDC and VPN server. A 3rd party mail server (MDaemon). And a server I've already retired that was basically just being used as a backup machine, back when we had tapes. (We now use a DATTO device.) When we were back at 60-70 employees, these servers sometimes had other uses. Now, not so much.

I'd like to maintian both the data server and mail server on site. I have no requirements other than moving off of Server 2003. In fact, if it wasn't for having to do that, we'd probably never even been having this conversation.

It sounds like the recommendation as of now is (hardware independent)

1. Move the data and mail servers into VMs on the new DELL server.
2. Use the data server as the DC and VPN server.
3. Roll without a backup DC.

@RojoLoco said in 1,000 user Roulete!:

@BRRABill said in 1,000 user Roulete!:

@BRRABill said in 1,000 user Roulete!:

@RojoLoco said in 1,000 user Roulete!:

@Minion-Queen said in 1,000 user Roulete!:

Party all the TIME!!!!

@RojoLoco Wins a free ticket to MangoCon!

WOOOHOOO!!!!!!!

Hmmm, that's at least one round needed to be bought at 2AM at some Rochester bar.

Or maybe just slightly before.

Right before eating garbage plates.

Before garbage plates I wouldn't mind having an antacid shot... maybe a "pink prilosec" or something...

(that's pepto, vodka, and prilosec)

Yes, that was definitely a late morning for some of us.

@scottalanmiller said

Yeah, always a fee for CCs no matter how when or where. Every store pays a fee. If there was a free way to do CCs we'd all use it for everything everywhere And MasterCard would be out of business.

But businesses get hit on paying from your bank account as well, I believe.

It's the same fee regardless of where the buyer funds from.

@ChrisL said in The Friday Fun Blog!:

@BRRABill said in The Friday Fun Blog!:

@RojoLoco said

(I'll probably click something, but don't tell @ChrisL !)

It shall be our secret.

I CAN SEE THIS, GUYS.

I feel like the Internet has let me down.

#neverpostinganythingonlineagain

@MattSpeller said:

I think you'll fit in well man, hope you stick around

I prefer texting/writing to talking. I'll be fine here!

@Ambarishrh

If you definitely want to use Office, I'd go with the $12.50 a month plan.

I personally like the hosted Exchange a lot.

You can always start with the $8.25 and upgrade any time down the road to the $12.50 one.

2.9% + $0.30 per transaction

In all seriousness, I never understood why people love MACs so much.

My iPhone, I like, but never felt like the MAC was on my side of things.

Part of the issue is, anyone can buy anything. Or be recommended to buy anything. But it is optimal?

As the keeper of the IT purse here, I've been proud we'll lasted so long on 10 years old servers.

I'm just looking to 100% maximize this next investment.

Thanks to everyone for the discussion today. It's been awesome!

We had that happen to us.

Someone designed a web page for us, and just used images he apparently wasn't licensed for. There were 3 Getty images, and they came after us for a pretty good sum of money.

I called them, and negotiated a lower amount, but we definitely paid it, and learned a very valuable lesson. Or at least I did.

I got the same request today when I asked for approval.

So the timing is impeccable.

@DustinB3403 I was looking at the enterprise-grade ones that xByte sells directly. Do all Edge SSDs work in the DELLs, or just the ones from xByte?

@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.

When our company was considering a move into the MSP space, we talked to a lot of other MSPs. (None of who were competition for us.)

And we heard about the same from every one of them ... they wanted to get the heck out of the MSP business.

@StrongBad said

Because, you know, NY gets Montezuma's Revenge. Can't be too careful.

Not everyplace has good water.

I can't be bothered researching water!

Plus, growing up in Trenton, the city water tasted like crap.

Exactly why I decided to go with them. Or at least get a demo unit from them, I should say.

And yellow exclamation point in OMSA be damned!