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@scottalanmiller
I will check prices on Monday, what is a good price in USA?
Amazon.com has them at ~170 USD and https://enlaza.mx has it at 119.48 USD Tax included in Mexico (but I don't know the company)

@JaredBusch
I just tried: ODBC can be used to connect to SQL Server Express, just be carefull with the instance name

@scottalanmiller
Got it. I was speaking on a purely technical way, but that’s a limited view.

Being an old timer .DBF means to me dBase/Fox Pro/Clipper Database File, If that's the case then you can try http://www.alexnolan.net/software/dbf.htm

@Reid-Cooper
it seems like there are 2 versions of Aloha, one uses a SQL database and the other uses only DBF files easily manipulable in Fox Pro. But it seems like the SQL based Aloha stills has DBFs in the server.

So the easiest thing would be to download a dBase DBF viewer and try it on a copy of an Aloha DBF.

I'm out but I will check later to see if @WrCombs has success

@Emad-R said in LAMP on the cheap, or how to optimize ?:

the user needs Cpanel and WHM, and those 2 are bulk of wasted resources, especially since they utilize and download there own PHP, I am running on ea-php 5

I don't think that will work well. If cPanel is needed then a VPS like DigitalOcean $10/mo droplet should be considered minimum.
You may try disabling the big memory hogs, at least:
ClamAV
Solr
SpamAssasin

@scottalanmiller said in Building a Mail Server:

MailCow is what we are looking at. @Alex-Sage recommends it. It looks promising.

https://mailcow.email/

And I love it. Have been using it for some time
There are SOGo extensions for thunderbird and Lightning for native calendar and address books. I do not know of a native solution for integration with Outlook

So I am configuring my first fully virtualized Active Directory using Hyper-V ith 2 VMs dedicated to AD using Windows 2016.
Everything is fine except that I am not sure about what is the proper configuration for Time synchronization.

There are lots of conflicted information on Internet, in the end I tried to use
https://www.veeam.com/blog/time-synchronization-all-virtual-environment-guide.html and
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/816042/how-to-configure-an-authoritative-time-server-in-windows-server

but w32tm /query /source doesn't return my external source. It returns "local CMOS Clock"
Is there a reliable guide out there for this?

@StuartJordan said in Email server options:

Well I'm not in the U.S lol...so not everyone...

Neither do I

@FATeknollogee
Well, there is a difference between 10-40 ms and 90 ms
The Atlantic ocean is somewhat big

@Pete-S
I know you already decided and my comment add no real value to your decision. But I want to add up that I used their email services until about 2 years ago for a critical domain:

• The email service worked well
• The anti SPAM was too basic and was the main reason to move out
• Support was generally good and sometimes really bad. The fact that I had to call support says a lot as I am used to solve things on my own; calling support only when there are no other options.

@Pete-S
Got it. Then, in my opinion, Rackspace is not a fit for your requirements unless thay have made major changes in the last 2 years

DNSFilter with Roaming Client deployment would work. It is one of their use cases: https://www.dnsfilter.com/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-roaming-clients/

They have been in business at least since 2013. If I remember right, by that time they data centers were in Finland/UK only.
I host some simple services in their Chicago data center and they work very well.

@Obsolesce
On the other hand, UpCloud was consistently good with some data centers outside of US

Pentaho is another option. I have only used the ETL part but the suite is large

I forgot to mention the other big option along with Jasper and Pentaho: Spago BI now known as Knowage

Edit: going back to school so I can learn to type.

@scottalanmiller
This reminds me of the article at Ars Technica:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/08/how-insurance-companies-are-fueling-a-rise-in-ransomware-attacks/

@scottalanmiller
Nice, let us know how it goes.

SpamExperts (warning owned by Solarwinds): There is one option where the price is per domain, no limits.
It is not perfect, but if you take some time training it it works very well.