Is there a dating site for IT guys needed?

@coliver It depends, in this article I just looked at S3 storage alone and without any bandwidth charges.

What is the app, how much storage, how much processing, power and memory, how much bandwidth, how many users, which geographic locations they need to serve. Complexity of the app or service to install/update/deploy

Its like any IT project. What is the risk of this happening, what is the cost of prevention and making an informed decision. The same thought process and decision making that goes into a single server setup or dual server setup on prem stays when we look into cloud computing.

I love Synology. Use the ITunes function with a team of 6.

@Minion-Queen said:

@Breffni-Potter said:

Unless you and your spouse do the same work. @Danielle-Ralston @Mike-Ralston

@Mike-Ralston is my son @art_of_shred is my husband. But honestly we do all three of us work together
they had no choice in the matter actually

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Whoops!

http://spiceworks.hubs.vidyard.com/watch/jHM6kNV2Mu75EB4ZL9wEDG

By Breffni Potter @ Spiceworks All Access London 2017 - 20 minutes.

No matter what technology you are using. Whether it be Cloud / On premise / Hybrid a key goal in IT is to make our systems reliable. Reliability does not come from just buying the right product. With buzzwords like dual redundancy and high availability it can be easy to trust that everything will be ok, until it is not. Regardless of what project you are doing, here are key tips for delivering the project in a way that is reliable and it can help you decide how best to spend your IT budget.

From a cursory glance, it looks like terms slapped together. I half agree with him in paragraph 2, really hard to evaluate when taken out of context.

@Mike-Ralston

I've got some free beer tokens if you ever visit London.

@QuixoticJeremy There is still a sense of achievement to bringing down say... DynDNS for a day.

https://dyn.com/blog/dyn-statement-on-10212016-ddos-attack/

Not an easy thing to do but some attacks are more about the fame than the profit.

I think my main point to @Ambarishrh was - Do you want to be another packaged supplier competing on the same feature-set and price?

@Minion-Queen said:

Shush! He is TOO YOUNG for beer yet!

Oh it goes from bad to worse! How old?

Reccomended viewing when I paused the video:

As a suggestion, give good keywords/descriptions to the videos. You can optimise youtube search same way you optimise a blog post. You want to end up on a recommended viewing list for IT guys too, rather than blues fans.

Office 365 E1 is completely free for non profits. Skip tech soup and go direct.

Instead of thinking about specific certs or products, try to think bigger than that.

We're currently using email like this, how else could we use it?

Our data is stored as xyz, is there a better way to improve it?

@MattSpeller Despite MS being sneaky, Google are sneakier.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32083188

Not sure I'd trust any big corporate as far as I could throw them.

The article is mis-leading
"Office 365, one of the leading solutions for bringing your back office to the cloud, is now available at a discount for nonprofits and charities in Canada."

Errr, most of the plans are in fact free.
http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/en-us/office365-for-nonprofits/

@MattSpeller said:

@Breffni-Potter Fly me in, I'll buy you a drink

Sure....I'll invoice you.

This bit makes me cringe:

"Before you can gain access to Office 365’s donated E1 plan, your organization needs to meet Microsoft’s eligibility requirements. Microsoft, with help from TechSoup Canada, evaluates your eligibility during the 30-day E3 trial period. Approvals can take 1-4 weeks, but the process will be faster for organizations already registered with TechSoup Canada."

I don't know about Canada, but we got approval within a few days. No need for a third party. I suspect they word it like this because tech soup get brownie points from MS.

I would change the title from home lab to just lab, whether it is hosting with a provider or a server box at home, It is a definite bonus for me to see someone doing that.

Now here's another question...would you let an interviewer see your lab setup? Or would it just become another interview question that you blag your way through.

Not so worried about pirates, They can have a watermark for using a free OS

My big worries about 10:

• My OEM install is upgraded to 10, a year later it breaks, how do I wipe and reinstall?
• What is the subscription license cost they are planning on bringing after year 1
• In a domain environment, to use 10's new features (cortanna) requires a Microsoft account, how do I manage 600+ individual microsoft accounts.