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@PhlipElder said in Misc go-to FOSS options:

@scottalanmiller said in Misc go-to FOSS options:

@PhlipElder said in Misc go-to FOSS options:

@scottalanmiller said in Misc go-to FOSS options:

@PhlipElder said in Misc go-to FOSS options:

@scottalanmiller said in Misc go-to FOSS options:

@PhlipElder said in Misc go-to FOSS options:

@scottalanmiller said in Misc go-to FOSS options:

@PhlipElder said in Misc go-to FOSS options:

Workloads are multiple WordPress sites on one Ubuntu server OS (boy, what a lot of fun it is trying to get any documentation that gives a clear step-by-step ... just blew up the server for the umpteenth time now need to figure out what broke it as search sucks at this point for me) as well as Mastodon.
We'll be setting up some SFTP sites for clients once we get the WordPress sites online.

It's not terrible, but yeah, there is a surprising lack of documentation on that. It's like the single most common Linux server task and it seems no one knows how to do it.

I can only imagine that there was a time when everyone knew how to do it and because of that, stopped teaching it, and now no one knows. But you need it constantly.

Wow, no kidding.

The number of "How to set up WordPress multiple sites on one VPS/Ubuntu Server" articles is crazy and they're all somewhat different. Plus, there's "multisite" which is *.domain.com hosting subdomain sites. We don't want that.

Got a good How-To pointer? Please & Thanks?
*Sorry for co-opting the thread.

I really need to make one. BUt that's not going to be a "this week" item as I'm in Costa Rica for my anniversary.

My team needs it too. I should be able to hand this stuff off to them easy peasy and I can't.

Happy anniversary. How many years?

Understood.

19 married, 21 together!

Suweet. December is 20 for my wife and I. It's been an amazing ride. :0)

Cool, almost the same. Pre-emptive congrats to you as well.

Ta.

Looking forward. Have lots of surprises for her.

nice

@dyasny said in MongoDB vs. ScyllaDB:

As for Scylla specifically, please feel free to join the Slack channel and ML if you have questions

I need to do that too.

@scottalanmiller said in MSP Ubiquiti Unifi management:

@black3dynamite said in MSP Ubiquiti Unifi management:

@scottalanmiller said in MSP Ubiquiti Unifi management:

@bbigford said in MSP Ubiquiti Unifi management:

Are you running your controller on something like Fedora Server?

We use Ubuntu, Jared uses Debian.

You mean "We use Ubuntu, Jared hates Ubuntu" lol

True. Very true.

It is.

@dbeato said in ubnt CloudKey - refused connection:

@bbigford said in ubnt CloudKey - refused connection:

option but honestly I just haven't explored it yet for a multi-client setup.

I have one Unifi Controller with 70 Customers and they have each their own login and can manage it from their end. This one is not hosted on Vultr but rather in AWS but it is working well.

Moving to Vultr though very soon.

Yeah, I've worked with a single instance managing 200+ customers. Easy, especially when you can adopt a new AP before taking it on site.

@Dashrender said in Can You Resell Without Being Influenced:

@Obsolesce said in Can You Resell Without Being Influenced:

I hate this so much... mostly because I have no say in things between the reseller and my boss when it has to do with products or services I'm not much involved in, but still effected by it. By the time my opinion on said product or service is asked for, the decision has pretty much already been made and discussed.

which makes them the head of IT - just remind them of that.

Yup, refer to them as the CIO, or the "IT lead", or whatever descriptive title hits home that they are responsible for the IT decisions and failures.

I just got a 2 year cert from NameCheap the other week. No issues at all anywhere, didn't even notice that cert was expired.

@bbigford said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:

Figured it out. Some backup software can create sparse files. File Station is reporting the size of data including sparse size, but Storage Manager is reporting only actual data on disk.

On Linux, this is often the difference between the output of df and du.

@dustinb3403 I see Polycom has some higher end models now. Nice and colourful.

@brrabill said in Windows Server - AppCmd crashing:

@bbigford said in Windows Server - AppCmd crashing:

@brrabill said in Windows Server - AppCmd crashing:

@bbigford said in Windows Server - AppCmd crashing:

@brrabill said in Windows Server - AppCmd crashing:

Are there any printers installed on it?

I had server once that kept randomly crashing and it turns out it was a printer driver of all things.

No printers installed... but I had wondered the same thing as I found that on some forums.

It drove me nuts.

Kept rebooting the server in the middle of the day, randomly. It was awful.

Are you sure the spooler caused the reboot rather than a faulting driver not being isolated and caused the server to reboot because of a driver issue? I've witnessed print spoolers on servers crash many times and cause the whole list of printers to become unavailable, but that is about the extent of it.

Pretty sure it was the driver.

I think it was an older printer that maybe didn't have an updated driver.

I could definitely see a problematic driver causing a server to crash. If it isn't isolated, it could certainly cause the spooler to crash as well (but without causing the server to crash).

@dbeato said in Oops... StorageCraft site down:

Interesting, Labcorp last week had also Crypto malware. Hopefully is nothing like that.

It's been a rough couple weeks for everyone.

I was having trouble earlier to do AWS Management work but now it is working fine.

Most "hot new things" apply to existing technology. It's extremely rare that a new industry term arises before (or with) the invention of something. It's normally more a recognition of something that's been created. SaaS for example arose as a term decades after the idea was pioneered and at least five years after it was mainstream. But it doesn't make the things that predate the name not SaaS, it's just a super broad term.

By the way it works the same with 2FA in this forum, unless you sign out of the browser it keeps your session ID.

@stacksofplates said in Ubiquiti WiFi vs... everyone:

This isn't wifi related but a big downside for us is the largest 10 gig switches are only 16 port. For a site with 40 Gb core and 10 Gb everywhere it's a big limitation.

I wouldn't buy 10Gbps ports in 2018. 25Gbps or 100Gbps. Cost is the same for 25Gbps with how the ASICs and optics work.

Pretty much anywhere there is open land for a while you're certain to find at least a few rednecks, just like whitetail deer. . . they congregate wherever they can.

@bbigford Do not know anyone in that industry out there.

I use the Dell Site and quote it as is since we are a partners and then provide the quote with the spec I want to our VAR (GHA Technologies) and they provide me the quote and anything comparable from HPE or other server vendor.