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@scottalanmiller said:

@travisdh1 said:

I already don't like the quiz, where is the "Yes, and the backups worked perfectly!" Answer, they're all bad, we don't allow bad to happen around here!

Would end users know about that?

They know we have backups, and I can quickly restore something for them. Even have instructions so they could do it themselves when I'm not around. Disaster recovery does require some more hands on than I'd like at this point, but we'd be back up and running in a couple days at worst.

The latest phishing test even went well, only 1 person clicked the link (it was the owner, of course, need to keep repeating the "Don't click that link" mantra.)

@JaredBusch said:

Read what I wrote.

Don't patronise me. 3 days ago you said you'd never do them, now you say you are doing them. The fact that it's short term, or it's regionally targeted, or you're treating it as a marketing expense is irrelevant. Do you think other firms offering assessments don't treat them exactly the same?

You're either doing them or you're not.

@wrx7m said:

I hate when vendors gate their pricing.

I find it simplifies things, it's like they have already evaluated the cost and are letting me know up front that it isn't worth my time. Very handy.

@MKM8DY Command and Conquer 1 through 4, Dune 1+2. Also a little Duke Nukem 3D in the computer repair lab, slightly modified with some of ..... those..... mods. Hopefully the different network shares that was hidden on are gone by now!

@Dashrender said:

@MattSpeller said:

I'd be on the side of the FBI were it not for all the NSA spying bull that Snowden leaked and setting a precedent that will inevitably be abused.

Huh - I could never be on the side of the FBI, even if only for what possible hackers could do with the information, let alone the government.

Honestly I think "hackers getting a hold of the code" is a remote possibility.

I already mentioned my lack of trust in the gov but there's ways to do it safely, this is not some super secret 007 heist.

Clarity: Not advocating for it, just pointing out some of the FUD that's circling this debate.

@Dashrender said:

When I was first hanging my own shingle as an IT consultant we were suggesting to all of our clients that they should purchase and install AV everywhere.

Even in the 1990s that was ridiculous. How does someone manage to get enough money to start a business or hire an IT consultant but doesn't have the brain power to use AV?

@wirestyle22 said:

I'm probably going to go for state jobs. I'm paid in bread and water currently so it's a big step up for me and a pretty secure job from what I'm told. I also miss working on a team.

My take on that is, as a general thing...

The more secure a "job" is, the less secure the "career" is.

Well it should not be too surprising: Most MSPs are SMBs, most SMBs have no grasp of finances. It's pretty general. As an MSP, if we talk to our customers, they often have no idea about finances.

Just look at things we run into all the time in the field: blatant disregard for the sunk cost fallacy, disbelieving in the concept of value and looking at price as a proxy for value (in randomly either direction), no idea of the time value of money, unable to look at risk as a cost and use this to evaluate needs, pushing CFO duties onto other departments that lack training and insight into the books, buying products without regard for suitability, paying for advice that is ignored, buying without planning...

SMBs don't just lack the knowledge of the complex stuff, they often lack the knowledge that we expect children to have. The struggles are often with the most basic concepts, not advanced ones. Ones that don't require training, just general knowledge.

Have not run into any this month.

I don't visit your site, because I refuse to resize my browser window to accommodate your gargantuan send me spam banner.

https://i.imgur.com/oULggJZ.jpg

@scottalanmiller Maybe I could convince them that doing a once a month copy was not enough of a hassle to outweigh its value.

More adoption of "cloudiness", more poor planning & not enough parachutes

@nadnerB Cyanide and Happiness is one of my fave comics!

Posted here on ML for the world to see.

My penance for daring to argue with @scottalanmiller

http://mangolassi.it/topic/6847/my-server-crash-writeup-11-10-2015

@bigbear said in Are there any web hosts or hosting providers in the house??:

Do they deal with security and CDN on Wordpress? Like a replacement for pagely or wpengine?

They don't really specialized in wordpress so don't think they are fully comparable

I think this is along the same lines as what @scottalanmiller is saying, but the effort is also company-size related.

So for example a 5 person company is going to have to have much less security than (or going to need to be judged to have) a huge hospital organization.