What Are You Doing Right Now
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Discussing how much money companies waste in the name of “unlimited”
yep, I get you.
I was looking at my isp last night, looking to cut some costs if possible.
$60/100GB, $62/500GB, $69 unlimited.
so most would choose unlimited.
I went through this exercise with everything last year, TV, ISP etc. Think I ended up saving $120/month just by not going unlimited.Nothing is truly unlimited, it's always just a really high cap. Or at least hopefully really high. In the case of a lot of ISPs, for example, the unlimited is often just a small step higher, like 700GB in your case. It's amazing how quickly unlimited becomes "moderately high" only.
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The key to unlimited being useful is when abuse is hard. Unlimited Internet or phone minutes are definitely bad, because you'd have to cover the potential abuse cases of people reselling. If you truly got unlimited of either of those, you can easily let people do all kinds of things with your service, because you aren't the one paying for it. Imagine if a phone company gave you "unlimited minutes" - you could use that to start your OWN phone company charging the lowest rates ever, because it's all but free to you. Hence why those are so capped, because there is unlimited potential for abuse and no natural caps.
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Where "unlimited" becomes very different is when the process of using service or product has a natural limit to being used, and where there is a cost to the user. An example would be our veterinary software.... we charge per doctor, but let unlimited non-doctor users use the system.
Could a customer abuse the software, and have thousands of users using it for every doctor (instead of 2-10 people per doctor like we expect?) Of course they could. But in doing so, the cost to us additionally is minimal and the cost to the customer isn't zero - they need to create the users, spend time managing passwords, and what will all those users do? The software just isn't very useful to someone doing something like that. So while it wouldn't be zero cost to us, the cost of abusing the software would be too costly for someone to do just to spite us.
All "unlimited" has a scope. So while anything that is truly unlimited is certainly going to be costly, you have to look at what it is and how the economics and scope play out.
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Or how Skyetel gives unlimited concurrent calling for free. You pay by the minute, and it's the minutes that cost them money to provide. To them, you making 1,000 one minute calls, or a single one thousand minute call takes essentially the same system resources and costs them the same. So for them to give away unlimited concurrent capability sounds like a crazy gift from heaven if you are used to "pay by the line" phone services. But if you understand the economics of how they pay to provide the service, unlimited is the only way that makes sense.
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about to do something I've not done before, repurpose a server that ran RDS and was a DC, without rebuilding it.
I don't know if this is a good idea or not, I'll find out I guess.
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Been a busy day, no time for posting. How is everyone?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Been a busy day, no time for posting. How is everyone?
Sounds like me, but beating my head against Power Automate. More like Power Break All The Things
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Setting up my new OnePlus 8.
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client WP site, not updated, was compromised...
At least I setup automated backups on Vultr.
Rolled it all back. Now they are paying me to setup updating...
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working on a satrurday
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@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch Awesome
And it just saved me again. This client has iDRAC7 but same issue.
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Failed drive in a R10, a few weeks ago. Found when I rebooted the thing just now.
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monday morning 9:40am. overcast and wet, the ground is anyway, reckon we had at least 1" last night.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
monday morning 9:40am. overcast and wet, the ground is anyway, reckon we had at least 1" last night.
looking for a new isp, oh the joy of doing that!Bright and sunny with crisp blue skies. If it wasn't for the wind chill, I'd be considering moving the office outside
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
looking for a new isp, oh the joy of doing that!
For work or at home?
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Gah!!
Killed seven spammer posts about locksmiths.
What a way to start Monday. -
Zabbix and VMware stuff
Also setting up a new PC and laptop -
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Gah!!
Killed seven spammer posts about locksmiths.
What a way to start Monday.Have a look at yesterday
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
monday morning 9:40am. overcast and wet, the ground is anyway, reckon we had at least 1" last night.
looking for a new isp, oh the joy of doing that!Bright and sunny with crisp blue skies. If it wasn't for the wind chill, I'd be considering moving the office outside
1° C right now. Frost anywhere the sun hasn’t touched yet.
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Got the appraisal back on my house - they're appraising it at what I asked for the loan on, so looks like In 10 Days I'll own a home !
But for now, Coffee number 1 day, grabbing #2 and going through the weekend stuff
