Consulting for a Small Construction Company
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If they are just looking for a project management/ticketing software just spin up a redmine instance somewhere out in the cloud and use that. You can create/manage accounts locally on the server, or sync it with AD.
If you're feeling really lazy: https://www.turnkeylinux.org/redmine
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@scottalanmiller said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
Here is where I would go based off of the size and scenario without further information:
- No directory. They are too small, this is just wasting money at their size.
- CentOS Samba4. Free forever.
- Azure AD. No servers on site, no local dependencies.
- I wouldn't even consider a number for (which includes legacy AD.)
In that order.
I reading this, I like this list a lot and was thinking the same.
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@RamblingBiped Redmine looks neat. Have you used it?
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@DustinB3403 said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@thanksajdotcom said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@DustinB3403 said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
Why would you want to reduce cost, and implement Hyper-V and UEB?
Why not XenServer and Xen Orchestra for the Hypervisor?
I actually have no Xen experience...sadly...
It's the most simple Hypervisor out there.
yeah - no, I won't give you that!
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@aaronstuder Yes, we use it here for a lot of our project management.
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I second @Jason's mention of Zoho. Free for the most part and you can integrate their help desk, crm, invoicing, etc apps. I use their service for my personal email domains and it's a great service.
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@Dashrender said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@DustinB3403 said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@thanksajdotcom said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@DustinB3403 said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
Why would you want to reduce cost, and implement Hyper-V and UEB?
Why not XenServer and Xen Orchestra for the Hypervisor?
I actually have no Xen experience...sadly...
It's the most simple Hypervisor out there.
yeah - no, I won't give you that!
Ya. Xen Orchestra is easy to use. XenServer itself is more difficult.
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@Dashrender said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@DustinB3403 said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@thanksajdotcom said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@DustinB3403 said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
Why would you want to reduce cost, and implement Hyper-V and UEB?
Why not XenServer and Xen Orchestra for the Hypervisor?
I actually have no Xen experience...sadly...
It's the most simple Hypervisor out there.
yeah - no, I won't give you that!
Vmware might be the easiest. It is awfully easy. But I've found XS to be easier.
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@thanksajdotcom said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@Jason said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
This is insane.. Small contruction company? Yeah they don't need any of these. They don't even need IT. They can just buy their fresh books or whatever. And email and email service like zoho or office 365 plus cloud storage.
The biggest thing that I forgot in my OP was that they want to setup a software that uses a server-client model, but I don't see why we couldn't do that on a hosted platform.
Actually it's almost an assured failure on their part for considering a solution that isn't solely cloud/smart phone app based. The need for a local server for this type of solution seems just wrong. So that too will save you/them from managing a VPS for this solution.
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Why would you even consider a VPS for this? Office 365 or Google Apps will do everything you need. You should also talk them into looking at a modern ticketing/ERP system. Oodo has a hosted option that is generally inexpensive but honestly if they do office 365 they could just use a share point site. Most of the ticketing stuff us pre-built.
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@scottalanmiller said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@thanksajdotcom said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@DustinB3403 said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
Why would you want to reduce cost, and implement Hyper-V and UEB?
Why not XenServer and Xen Orchestra for the Hypervisor?
I actually have no Xen experience...sadly...
Do you have Hyper-V experience? Jared feels Hyper-V has the lower learning curve. I feel XenServer does. I think even he would agree given your Linux background that XenServer would be easier for you.
Where I disagree with XS is when it needs to be managed by someone not versed in it in detail.
XS plus an XO subscription is simple along the lines of Hyper-V.
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@thanksajdotcom said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@Jason said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
This is insane.. Small contruction company? Yeah they don't need any of these. They don't even need IT. They can just buy their fresh books or whatever. And email and email service like zoho or office 365 plus cloud storage.
The biggest thing that I forgot in my OP was that they want to setup a software that uses a server-client model, but I don't see why we couldn't do that on a hosted platform.
There are huge reason that this software will likely not work. Most revolve around the fact that is was never developed with offsite servers in mind for its client-server communicaiton.
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@Dashrender said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@DustinB3403 said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@thanksajdotcom said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@DustinB3403 said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
Why would you want to reduce cost, and implement Hyper-V and UEB?
Why not XenServer and Xen Orchestra for the Hypervisor?
I actually have no Xen experience...sadly...
It's the most simple Hypervisor out there.
yeah - no, I won't give you that!
most certainly not.
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@JaredBusch said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@thanksajdotcom said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@Jason said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
This is insane.. Small contruction company? Yeah they don't need any of these. They don't even need IT. They can just buy their fresh books or whatever. And email and email service like zoho or office 365 plus cloud storage.
The biggest thing that I forgot in my OP was that they want to setup a software that uses a server-client model, but I don't see why we couldn't do that on a hosted platform.
There are huge reason that this software will likely not work. Most revolve around the fact that is was never developed with offsite servers in mind for its client-server communicaiton.
He mentioned that the software in question could track in real time access of the techs in the field while the techs are interacting with the ticket system. This implies remote type access. But still, looking at a system that requires a server, instead of cloud product/hosted solution should definitely be re-evaluated assuming they didn't consider this before landing on this choice.
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@Dashrender said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@JaredBusch said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@thanksajdotcom said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@Jason said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
This is insane.. Small contruction company? Yeah they don't need any of these. They don't even need IT. They can just buy their fresh books or whatever. And email and email service like zoho or office 365 plus cloud storage.
The biggest thing that I forgot in my OP was that they want to setup a software that uses a server-client model, but I don't see why we couldn't do that on a hosted platform.
There are huge reason that this software will likely not work. Most revolve around the fact that is was never developed with offsite servers in mind for its client-server communicaiton.
He mentioned that the software in question could track in real time access of the techs in the field while the techs are interacting with the ticket system. This implies remote type access. But still, looking at a system that requires a server, instead of cloud product/hosted solution should definitely be re-evaluated assuming they didn't consider this before landing on this choice.
To me, that means it has mobile ready access. Not that the fat client in the office will work across a WAN.
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oh, most definitely.
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@coliver said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
Why would you even consider a VPS for this? Office 365 or Google Apps will do everything you need. You should also talk them into looking at a modern ticketing/ERP system. Oodo has a hosted option that is generally inexpensive but honestly if they do office 365 they could just use a share point site. Most of the ticketing stuff us pre-built.
This software is built very specifically for the type of industry they are in. That's why they are looking to go with it.
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@thanksajdotcom said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@coliver said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
Why would you even consider a VPS for this? Office 365 or Google Apps will do everything you need. You should also talk them into looking at a modern ticketing/ERP system. Oodo has a hosted option that is generally inexpensive but honestly if they do office 365 they could just use a share point site. Most of the ticketing stuff us pre-built.
This software is built very specifically for the type of industry they are in. That's why they are looking to go with it.
Sadly I see this often. These packages built for an industry by people who have no regards for proper programming, security.
I'm dealing with that at a client now. The software they use simply will NOT run as a non local admin. I had to find a piece of software that runs the application fully as a different user to make it work.
A smart user can use this to their advantage to get more access than they should have, luckily, there doesn't seem to be a desire to do so.I'm going to these lengths to offer non admin access for the users when using the rest of the system, i.e. surfing the web, email, attachments, etc.
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@thanksajdotcom said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@coliver said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
Why would you even consider a VPS for this? Office 365 or Google Apps will do everything you need. You should also talk them into looking at a modern ticketing/ERP system. Oodo has a hosted option that is generally inexpensive but honestly if they do office 365 they could just use a share point site. Most of the ticketing stuff us pre-built.
This software is built very specifically for the type of industry they are in. That's why they are looking to go with it.
This is exactly what everyone not shopping around for good software or just ignoring common sense says. This pretty much tells us that the decision involved no comparisons and they are blowing you off.
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@scottalanmiller said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@thanksajdotcom said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
@coliver said in Consulting for a Small Construction Company:
Why would you even consider a VPS for this? Office 365 or Google Apps will do everything you need. You should also talk them into looking at a modern ticketing/ERP system. Oodo has a hosted option that is generally inexpensive but honestly if they do office 365 they could just use a share point site. Most of the ticketing stuff us pre-built.
This software is built very specifically for the type of industry they are in. That's why they are looking to go with it.
This is exactly what everyone not shopping around for good software or just ignoring common sense says. This pretty much tells us that the decision involved no comparisons and they are blowing you off.
But obviously they are a special snowflake.
