Sounds like it will be used for some kind of federation services for users to log in to via the web.... think online banking website, or Facebook (had they wanted to AD for user logins, which is a terrible idea). If that's the case, it'll need to be HA, which means it will need to be distributed across multiple sites, load balancing, failover, AD CS / AD FS / WAP, the WHOLE SHABANG!

Hope they are prepared for that. Very little details are given, but that's how it looks without giving it a ton of thought.

@scottalanmiller said in Backups - how much does backup performance matter to you?:

All comes down to your speed needs. Is the extra $100 a good price for the extra speed? What does the extra speed mean to your business?

I comes down to what you are backing up, and as you said, the needs of the business.

If you are backing up a lot of data, and it goes too slow, the run time may leak into business hours, and it'll put some burden on your network and productions servers, slowing it down and causing a mess for the users who need to work. It could also delay "domino effect" backups, causing too many to happen at once, or for backups to be skipped entirely... but that depends on the backup software too.

On the other hand, if you are backing up something that requires a lot of retention, snapshots, frequency, etc... you'll need to have available space for that, and also I can see how speed fits in.

It's always going to depend heavily on the businesses needs, and it will be very different from place to place. Some larger businesses may have lighter requirements than a much smaller one.

If the extra speed of the backup process has no effect at all on the business, then is it really worth the extra money? If the extra speed will have actual positive impact on the business, then it may be worth it.

You also need to consider future growth, at least near-future growth. And, what happens if you fill it up?

@theOtherGuy said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:

@Tim_G said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:

You will need 4 licensing models for a typical mixed environment:

Free - VEB (because a lot of people do tend to use it with servers, although that's not what it was designed for, and you shouldn't)
Paid - B&R (for hypervisors - enterprises typically need this in a standard mixed environment)
Paid - Veeam Agent for Linux (needed for physical Linux servers that are not hypervisors)
Paid - Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows (needed for physical windows servers that are not hypervisors)

You, Sir, are making wrong statements

1.B&R - offers a Free version that lets you backup VMs.
2.Veeam Agent for Linux - has fully functional free version
3.Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows - not even released yet and will offer free version as well.

Okay... so then you'll be stuck with 4 separate free products... my point still remains the same. I think like 99% of all backup solutions have a free version. But at least with Unitrends (and many others), you'd only need a single free product. With Veeam, you'd need maybe 4 separate ones. Whether it's free or paid wasn't the point.

I like my Asus. Better and cheaper than either of those options.

Yeah I would have just asked if it was a video or voice call "so you can be ready on the correct device".

But if video... shirt and tie, nice hair, no pants just kidding lol

@NashBrydges said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

@Tim_G said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

@NashBrydges said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

@Tim_G According to my UPSs, I'm running my lab on about 1.2kw and yeah, I definitely notice the increase in power bill. It's costing me about $125 per month based on loca rates, delivery charges and taxes in.

Is that $125 extra or $125 total? If total, how much extra does it add for you with your setup?

It's $125 extra per month. Just for the networking and server gear.

Wow... your setup is something I'd love to have at home. But there's no way I could justify that cost per month, if you know what I mean.

@NashBrydges said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

@Tim_G According to my UPSs, I'm running my lab on about 1.2kw and yeah, I definitely notice the increase in power bill. It's costing me about $125 per month based on loca rates, delivery charges and taxes in.

Is that $125 extra or $125 total? If total, how much extra does it add for you with your setup?

Let's see what everyone's biggest Hypervisor host is running... VMWare, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, KVM, Xen... whatever!

I'll start...

It's not even sweating!

Don't these larger home labs send the electricity bill through the roof?

@art_of_shred said in Remote office - Basic Wireless Needs:

https://www.ubnt.com/unifi/unifi-ap-ac-pro/

I'm pretty sure these are the ones that will run on standard POE voltage and don't require the proprietary POE switch (or injectors).

I've run with these and they are excellent. Definitely the way to go.

@scottalanmiller said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@Tim_G said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@scottalanmiller said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@JessWaterfordTech said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@JaredBusch Love this!!! I just got engaged to a Japanese Hawaiian man. His family is mainly Japanese speaking so I would like to learn and understand better.

I believe a picture like this is in my future since his mother has been hinting at it.

I married an Italian girl and here I am living in Italy

Hmm, for some reason I thought you were living on the east coast of the U.S. That explains your Italian progress on Duolingo.

Well, I moved here yesterday, lol. But I've not lived on the US East Coast since 2014. I've been primarily in Europe for over two years and was briefly in the US this summer due to family medical issues and then the holidays.

That makes sense now. Congratulations on escaping! I'm sure you'll enjoy Italy! I've never been there but would love to visit some time.

@scottalanmiller said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@JessWaterfordTech said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@JaredBusch Love this!!! I just got engaged to a Japanese Hawaiian man. His family is mainly Japanese speaking so I would like to learn and understand better.

I believe a picture like this is in my future since his mother has been hinting at it.

I married an Italian girl and here I am living in Italy

Hmm, for some reason I thought you were living on the east coast of the U.S. That explains your Italian progress on Duolingo.

@JaredBusch said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

This entire thread and the linked source material are just stupid.

The medium is not the issue. The issue is the stupid people.

Move along. Nothing to see here.

Hah! That's one good way to put it!

I haven't heard of it until a week or so ago either on here or SW.

Are there any reasons not to use it on your personal site? I'm thinking about it, but Hostgator still wants to charge a $10 fee to use your own SSL cert instead of buying it through them. So I figure if I gotta pay money anyways...

Just wondering if anyone has any reasons? Otherwise, all looks superb from what I can tell, and I'll get one for myself.

@JaredBusch said in Household reminders and tracking:

What does everyone use for household reminders and tracking of things such as bills and the trash holiday schedules, and such?

Currently our stuff is fractured over devices and methods. The wife and I and looking at a centralization point for this.

A calendar is simple, but does not lend itself to listing bill amounts. It is easy to make a recurring event for say the cellular, electric, or gas bill. But then what do we do about the amount? As that can vary from month to month.

We really like Mint (mint.com) for the financials, our Outlook.com calendars and Cortana for scheduling/planning/appointments/etc, and also we have a large dry-erase white-board hanging on the wall. 99% of all reoccurring bills are paid automagically, but Mint still alerts in advance which is always nice.

P.S. Our daughter likes the white-board too!

@scottalanmiller said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

@Tim_G said in No Facebook - 30 Days. Go:

I actually deleted my Facebook account a long time ago...

But then I couldn't log in to some websites and services that I had used Facebook login for, so I had to re-enable it just for that reason!!!

Also, as some others mentioned, my wife and I are completely separated from our families. Hers, across the ocean, mine, on the other side of the country. So Facebook helps staying close to them, sharing pictures, chatting, etc. Not as much for me, as I'd rather text, Skype, or call.

But a world without Facebook, I believe, would be a better world... and would make people better.

FB just connects people. So it's a bit like saying that a world without people would be better.

Yes, at it's core, it's what it was originally designed to do. I'm sure there are other examples of things that were designed for good and are at their core good, but aren't used that way.

Now, that is about 1% of what it does. The other 99% is all bad, which includes bad habits of the people using it, the advertising abuse, the drama that otherwise would not occur, the list goes on and on in addition with what was already said in many posts above. It's like a chain reaction.

...I don't know anything about the platform your company provides, but just saying.

@DustinB3403 said in Ripping the bandaid off of the Sunk Cost Fallacy Issue:

@Tim_G feels a lot like it.... what kills me about this is the employee uses every possible excuse of "well this changed" or "they used it".

Which people and the systems are going to change, that can't be the reasoning for it. The platform will update. We can't control that, the platform provider does.

Another point, is that what about when your own platform changes? Which of the two solutions are more likely to continue working through your platform change? Surely not the expensive one that barely works as it is and can't support it's own weight and changes.

Wow. Reminds me of this:

I actually deleted my Facebook account a long time ago...

But then I couldn't log in to some websites and services that I had used Facebook login for, so I had to re-enable it just for that reason!!!

Also, as some others mentioned, my wife and I are completely separated from our families. Hers, across the ocean, mine, on the other side of the country. So Facebook helps staying close to them, sharing pictures, chatting, etc. Not as much for me, as I'd rather text, Skype, or call.

But a world without Facebook, I believe, would be a better world... and would make people better.