Posts made by Mike Davis

Has anyone tried something like this:
https://www.repeaterstore.com/products/clearvoice-dual-band
Seems like at $400, it would be less expensive than trying to run 3 or 4 femtocell devices.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a mobile phone signal booster? I have a client in a cell phone dead zone that was able to get the Verizon booster working and now would like something that will work for AT&T, Sprint, US Cellular, and T-Mobile. Any suggestions?

What do you have to do to get the B2 script working on a Windows box? Install python?

regarding BackBlaze, without going in to beta stuff, for servers it's $50 year for unlimited data? At the bottom of the Business page, it says:
Compatible with Windows XP 32-bit, Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit, Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit, Windows 8.

What about Server OSs? Also does it allow file versions? If it only keeps one version and you get hit with CryptoLocker, game over.

In most of these smaller shops RTO is primarily being met by the onsite disk to disk backup. If they are concerned about the speed of recovery from Amazon, we could go to Amazon S3, which would then cost ~ $75 year, IF they actually use 500GB. I guess that's the other difference between the plans. The others are flat fee up to 500GB, and the Amazon route is pay for only what you use.

I'm looking for a good option for online backup for servers. Most of them are Microsoft Server Essentials running on ESXi 5.5 free. So far I have used:

iBackup - $120 /year, 500GB
Carbonite - $900 /year, 500GB
Cloudberry + Amazon Glacier - $100 for CloudBerry Software, $0.007 per GB ($42 /year for 500GB + the initial $100)

I'm considering CloudBerry's service provider option. http://www.cloudberrylab.com/pricing-computer-data-backup-services.aspx

I know it can cost more to get data out of Glacier, but this is the backup in the event that the server and the local onsite backup fails, so I think it's pretty unlikely that it will be used, and if it does come to that point, the incremental cost of pulling data out of Glacier will be nothing compared to building a new server and backup.

I prefer questions like "How do you make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?"

Do they start right in, or ask "Who am I making it for?" Do they check to see if they have everything they need before they start, or make an assumption? Do they point out how efficient they are with the utensils? Do they ask how many they have to make?

You can see where this is going. If you can think of an off the wall question that they probably didn't prepare for, you will see how they respond under pressure because they will revert to their natural strengths.