• Ubiquiti ES48-500W
• Netgear GS724Tv3
• 2 x PowerEdge R210II running HA Sophos UTM 9
• 1 x PowerEdge R210II used for family remote backup
• 1 x PowerEdge R210II for the teenage kid to run Minecraft and some other war game for he and his friends
• PowerEdge R710 & MD1000 Veeam backup target (52TB RAID6)
• Spare MD1000
• PowerEdge R510 Hyper-V host running Plex media server (60TB RAID6)
• PowerEdge R420 Hyper-V host running a bunch of VMs including various desktop OS for testing as well as FreePBX, Sophos iView, Fastvue
• PowerEdge R610 spare server. Will probably get sold off as I haven't used it in some time.
• 2 x Dell 1000VA UPS
• Not pictured is a Synology DS2415+ as offsite backup target (80TB RAID6)

@kelly said in What is your perspective on the overall tone of interactions here on ML?:

Am I being too sensitive, or can this be a somewhat hostile place at times? (Telling me that I'm wrong here is not being hostile, btw.)

Nope, not oversensitive. It's very true that this can be quite a hostile place.

Two things I try to keep in mind.

1. I'm an adult. I can choose to participate in the animosity or choose to ignore the assholes. I pick and choose what is useful here and to be honest, the useful stuff far outweighs all the other bullshit I see.

2. I'm a professional. I know more than some, and some know much more than I. So I don't care too much if someone is going to be an asshole. Because if I post a question and I get useful information, I'm ahead, despite any animosity or hostility. If I post a response to a question, hopefully it's useful to someone. Of course, if I post a response and it is technically incorrect, I appreciate the responses that allow me to learn. Everything else gets ignored (most days).

ClamAV is available for Nextcloud.

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/12/admin_manual/configuration_server/antivirus_configuration.html

Is it just me or are we hearing about these things almost every other day?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/05/intel_amt_remote_exploit/

I've been complaining about my current Ubiquiti ES48 switch only having 2 SFP+ ports for 10G and I've had a few Intel X520-DA2 cards installed on my home lab servers for a while just waiting for a reason to make the full move to 10G. Looks like I found it.

https://store.ubnt.com/beta/unifi-switch-16-xg.html

Beta, true, and I may have a few headaches but it's for the home lab so I figured, at $299 for a 16 port 10G switch, I had to do it. Cross my fingers it doesn't turn out to be a dud.

@DustinB3403 said in CP - Dell vs HP server quotes:

I've received two quotes for new server hardware - one from our local reseller and one directly from Dell. As far as I can tell, the two quotes are identical spec-wise but the local reseller is almost $12k more expensive. Here are the two quotes:

Quote from Dell:
2x Dell PowerEdge R430 servers $6,665.60

• 2x Xeon E5-2630 v3 CPUs
• 2x 32 GB RDIMM
• Diskless configuration
  1x Dell SCv2020 iSCSI SAN $10,303.26
• 14x Dell 1.2 TB SAS 12GB, 10k, 2.5" HD
  1x Dell N2048 gigabit switch $1,693.49

TOTAL: $18,662.35

HP Quote from local reseller:
2x HP ProLiant DL360 servers $7,266.00

• 2x Xeon E5-2630 v3 CPUs
• 64 GB RAM (unknown configuration)
• Diskless configuration
  1x HP MSA 2040 SAN $20,932.00
• 14x HP MSA 1.2 TB 10K SAS 2.5in drives
• includes $5,850 in labor so actual price
  is only $15,082
  1x Cisco Catalyst 2960-X gigabit switch $2,320.00

TOTAL: $30,518.00

Difference: $11,855.65

Is there any reason why I should choose the HP solution over the Dell solution? I will be running vSphere 6 on these servers. I'm not familiar with managing either server line so either way I'll be learning new management tools. When it comes to support I think I trust my local reseller more than Dell but $12k extra is hard to stomach just for that.

[Edit: CP Code M.]

Unless that OP is restricted to 1U hosts, I would go with the quote from Xbyte for Dell 730xd with same specs as in quotes is

Multiply by 2, add Starwind's vSAN and a couple 10Gb NICs and he's done. Especially if only 2 hosts. Same(ish) price, way more reliability, better performance all around. I'd post that reco on SW but would likely get banned lol.

The one thing not mentioned is if there are other hosts connecting to the SAN.

This is from the same government that wants to insert backdoors into all encrypted communications? Gotta love the duplicity of that kind of bull$hit! Let me poke holes in your security but if you get breached, I'll punish you. Lol

@Helen No one in their right mind is going to click on a shortened URL. No reason for a shortened URL here. I get you may be wanting to get your click reporting out of this but I think you've chosen the wrong community for a bitly link.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/nasty-php7-remote-code-execution-bug-exploited-in-the-wild/

The Nextcloud advisory:
https://nextcloud.com/blog/urgent-security-issue-in-nginx-php-fpm/

1. What are the right questions a first-time colocation seeker should be asking?
2. How should colocation facilities be compared against one another? Pricing is obviously important but when services differ between offerings, what can be used to provide a valuable, effective comparison.
3. What are the most common "gotchas" that need to be considered in colocation?
4. Are there things that come up with tenants that surprise you on a regular basis? Perhaps things they should have known?
5. What's the dumbest thing you've seen from a tenant?

@obsolesce Ugh!

Florida water treatment facility hack used a dormant remote access software, sheriff says

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/10/us/florida-water-poison-cyber/index.html

@warren-stanley said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Synology to enforce use of validated disks in enterprise NAS boxes.

And guess what? Only its own disks exceed 4TB
NAS spinner's drives are Toshiba tin with custom firmware

Synology has introduced its first-ever list of validated disks and won’t allow other devices into its enterprise-class NAS devices. And in a colossal coincidence, half of the disks allowed into its devices – and the only ones larger than 4TB – are Synology’s very own HAT 5300 disks that it launched last week .

https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/02/synology_enterprise_nas_drives/

Can't find any media release other than the article you pointed to. Looking at the Synology site, while it's true they have removed a ton of drives from their compatibility list, I'm not yet seeing anything suggesting they would not work without a "compatible" drive. Will have to keep an eye out.

https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility?search_by=products&model=RS3621xs%2B&category=hdds_no_ssd_trim&p=1

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Google tries to allay Fitbit-deal privacy fears

Google has completed its acquisition of Fitbit and tried to reassure users it will protect their privacy.
The search giant bought the health-tracking company for $2.1bn (£1.5bn) in November 2019 but faced questions from regulators. Following a four-month European Commission investigation, it agreed not to use health and location data from Fitbit devices for advertising. The deal was then approved by authorities in December. In a blog, Google said the acquisition "has always been about devices, not data". "We've been clear since the beginning that we will protect Fitbit users' privacy," it added, promising the commitments given to the commission, which it must keep for 10 years, would be implemented globally.

Bahahaha. Google + protect privacy = Annihilation. This is like matter and antimatter in the same space.

@DustinB3403 said in NGINX Just Stop Working:

@NashBrydges said in NGINX Just Stop Working:

Thanks to everyone who participated!

Is this the age of "everyone gets a trophy" I want praise for sitting here watching with my :popcorn: !

Glad you got it working

Yes, I'm big on participation ribbons. Lol

Wanted to close the loop here. I've recreated the server and refetched all my certs. It's been working well for the last 2 days. Fingers crossed it stays that way.

Thanks to everyone who participated!

@siringo said in What Are You Watching Now:

@ITivan80 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@NashBrydges Tenet was very confusing it reminded me of Interstellar. I have to keep watching it to get it
:(

Great, i'm looking forward to watching that, I love mind benders ...

Yeah, after I watched the first time, I knew I'd have to watch it again to get the full effect. I may be slower than others but took me a while to fully grasp what was happening.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Bottom line, if Google Project Zero discovers a vulnerability, and chooses to hide it from me, and I get compromised because they were complacent (or whose), I think that there is criminal culpability. If they research the software that I am running, that's fine. If they find a vulnerability, though, telling me makes them innocent, not telling me makes them guilty. If you are going to do security research you have ethical responsibilities and, hopefully, criminal ones as well.

What's the legal statute that you are referencing when making this statement about criminal culpability?

Truly asking.

@scottalanmiller It's too large to upload the output here so uploaded a text file to Box and sharing link here. This is a simple txt file.

https://app.box.com/s/j9u3es7gv349bga5zodko7ed5ubp4b0g

@scottalanmiller Yeah, those log messages are in the syslog file in Ubuntu. The only log entries in syslog are related to when I rebooted the server. GREP output is too large for those related nginx entries in the log for me to post here but just reviewed every line and no errors that I could find.