@RojoLoco said:

I don't know any "rock" bands that would use them.

I don't know any "rock" bands who play at conversational volume either

Oh come on Scale.

Don't turn me into a lead, leads are for dogs. Let me qualify myself by getting the pricing straight away.

https://www.scalecomputing.com/scale-computing-pricing-and-quotes/

Using it right now, Cloudflare is fantastic.

I'd suggest running your site through GTMetrix.com to get the score of it, then compare it after Cloudflare, you should see a boost.

@scottalanmiller said:

Agreed, but any business using an unmanagable channel as their primary communications seems... flawed. No ticketing, no tracking, no ability to assign or store or hand off.

But there are plenty of tools to manage it, audit it, track it, do hand off, ect. - If you do it amateur hour style then yes you get problems but if done correctly, it can work.

@scottalanmiller said:

Would anyone consider an MSP that uses Facebook posts as tickets to be worth talking to? if so, would they be a viable business? I'm being serious, this is like "business for twelve year olds who can't even".

Probably not MSP, but in other markets, sure.

@RojoLoco said:

@Breffni-Potter That's my point... that whole "reduced stage volume" shit is for the birds... and pop bands, folk artists, etc.

I'll stop before we de-rail the thread anymore

How's the interface for mobile?

Personally, don't touch them for 6 months. Wait for bugs to be ironed out.

Their products are fantastic but something new does not mean it will be great at launch. (I might be wrong)

@MattSpeller said:

Really like that graphic, did you create it?

Alas no, it was purchased and the logo added on.

@scottalanmiller said in What happened to the website?:

Ten minutes and this is what the site looks like...

Fix the CloudFlare settings.

https://witsbits.com

The pitch:

"CLEARVM IS THE FASTEST PATH TO PRIVATE CLOUD MANAGEMENT.
Your bare-metal servers will be ready to host virtual machines within 10 minutes. You will not need to update your virtualization software.
You don't have to install centralized management."

Half baked product of the endth degree. Somehow got bought by ClearOS but this is an awful end product. Imagine you wanted a XenServer/Hyper-V/VMWare Host wrapped up in an easy to use package, well this is what the claim is but the reality:

• Bandwidth throttling is huge. Took an hour to download the install ISO. Similar throttling for all the other images.
• The Web interface keeps locking up
• No options at all to use local storage for ISOs, so you have to upload the ISOs to a link, put it into the web app and watch it download the ISO extremely slowly....
• The website promises a 10 minute install which is true but the ISO download is terrible. Process began at 7:20pm which took 40 minutes for a 750MB file, It is now 9:10pm and the server 2016 eval VM still has not downloaded. Ahh, it is now done. 2 hours later.
• Over all this feels rushed, half finished, pushed for a company sale without real thinking of how to handle the huge short-comings I've seen after a short while.

( I do not have privileges to upload images onto here anymore, so no screenshots. )

Overall...rather terrible.

@scottalanmiller Yes because then you have an insanely cheap geographically irrelevant backup scenario. Lot of companies would dive at the chance for that, building burnt down? not a problem there are 10 others.

The lack of NTFS is a shame but hopefully that will be addressed.

The scheduling, yes I agree needs to be an "expert mode" hidden away feature but for non critical data I can see it being useful.

Updated even further.

Refresh is browser has cached the old stuff.

Added a link on the book now page for the hotel booking.

@JaredBusch said:

My comment was more in regards to broadcasting to the world that I was in a moving vehicle and posting.

We would never assume such a thing of you.

I'm sure you were pulled over or just about to begin motion of said vehicle.

Not all of us are in GigE
Remember us 10/100 guys.

@MattSpeller said:

Clearly we've not worked together.

Well, that can be fixed I'm sure.

@coliver said in website for MangoCon?:

I do notice that the sponsor links don't actually go anywhere. Not sure if that is by design or not. I was trying to figure out what Frog was.

No links or sponsor info were on the other site, I made do

This looks horrible now. I get that someone has replied but the preview is useless

@scottalanmiller said:

@Breffni-Potter said:

Not all of us are in GigE
Remember us 10/100 guys.

You should have NOTHING happening on your network. Actually, at those speeds I'd question even having users there

Non-Profit IT, To replace the kit would be £600-900 for managed switches plus fibre modules.

@Kelly said:

As for the article @Breffni-Potter. I like it. You have laid everything out very clearly for the non IT decision maker. I'm not sure if I would go with the FEAR acronym personally, but it is memorable.

All the best ones were taken.