I prefer windows 8.1 over any other windows interface. I thought that search feature worked well, and your desktop was less crowded if you took the time to configure the metro interface correctly..... ducks behind a corner....

Ldap bind

@scottalanmiller said in How critical is SSD on a web server?:

@dashrender said in How critical is SSD on a web server?:

@scottalanmiller said in How critical is SSD on a web server?:

Web servers typically do not benefit from extra space, either. basically web servers don't use storage in any way. But SSDs at least give you faster boot times, swap space, updates, etc. Extra space would give us literally nothing, in our cases.

Are your DBs for your WP servers running on the same or different hosts from WP?

You want them on the same for performance. There is no advantage to centralization except a tiny bit of consolidation that would come at a cost of performance and reliability to the customers. If they are on a separate box there are more points of failure to worry about, more noisy neighbour risks, and huge latency bumps.

That makes sense.

@scottalanmiller said in How critical is SSD on a web server?:

Doesn't matter much at all unless the server is super busy. The database and code is all in memory normally, along with the cache, so the drives aren't being hit under normal circumstances.

Would you pay the extra costs and sacrifice disk space on a web server?

If you are using caching, is SSD really all that important? Is SATA an acceptable alternative or will there be a notable performance decrease.

@dafyre said in Looking for Dedicated EU based Server:

KimSufi has been good to me. I think you can include CPanel. I'm using one of their DCs in France.

cPanel**
DirectAdmin**
ISPConfig**
Plesk**
Release OVH

**licence not included and not sold by Kimsufi.

Too bad they dont include cpanel

@dafyre said in Looking for Dedicated EU based Server:

KimSufi has been good to me. I think you can include CPanel. I'm using one of their DCs in France.

Are those essentially desktops?

Any recommendations for a hosting comapny to get a fairly priced Dedicated EU Server? I would like to have a CPanel license as part of the package.

@obsolesce said in WSUS Help:

@irj said in WSUS Help:

Being able to manage update groups without group policy

You can, local policy on non domain members works well.

This one bothers me ALOT. Why do they have to be controlled by policies, period? Why cant you create a collection from WSUS by DNS name or IP? That really doesnt make sense to me.

@obsolesce said in WSUS Help:

@irj said in WSUS Help:

deployment options

Like what? WSUS deploys them great, and Win10 does it peer to peer style with options to turn it off. What more do you need?

Have you never used another patch solution?

You can tell me how great internet explorer is all day and about every feature it has. It sounds great on paper, but once you use another browser, you'll never use IE again.