Posts made by NashBrydges

If they are bots, Wordfence has an option to automatically block "fake Google crawlers" found under Wordfence -> Firewall -> Rate Limiting. Wordfence is free for many of it's features but also offers some premium features for paid option.

Something else to watch for is, I noticed that Google crawlers were going ape$hit for a while crawling a couple sites I manage to the tune of hundreds of pages per day. That's since calmed down though. Right around the time I submitted a sitemap to Google Search Console.

@fuznutz04 Have you added any extensions to your install? Anything you find so useful you couldn't imagine not having it?

**Note to self
Add Suite CRM to test suitability.

Don't know why I keep coming to this site. I just keep adding to my to-do list.

I installed Odoo a few days ago with plans to go poke around in there but haven't had time to. Not so much just CRM but more of an ERP solution that includes CRM but if all you want is CRM, you can just install that module.

https://www.odoo.com/

It is open source as well.

https://github.com/odoo/odoo

If you're looking for free options as well, try here.

https://85ideas.com/plugins/best-google-analytics-plugins-for-wordpress/

There are existing WP plugins that would make this easier. Here is a link that might help.

http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-install-google-analytics-in-wordpress/

For the TLDR

So I was reading the link from this post when I noticed another interesting article at the bottom...

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/synology-diskstation-ds916-turbocharged-with-starwind-virtual-san

And continues for a 3 part series. Not something I would have thought about testing but certainly very interesting results.

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/storage-ha-on-the-cheap-fixing-synology-diskstation-flaky-performance-with-starwind-free-part-2-log-structured-file-system

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/storage-ha-on-the-cheap-fixing-synology-diskstation-flaky-performance-with-starwind-free-part-3-failover-duration

I know three 3-letter organizations that are going to loooove this! Lol

@scottalanmiller buitwith.com confirms it is NodeBB

@guyinpv said in What's the current "standard" for a media server setup these days?:

@NashBrydges said in What's the current "standard" for a media server setup these days?:

You'll want to know what your Plex PC can manage for outputs and determine whether you even want to go down that road. But for the cost of a Roku these days, I'd spring for that and be done with it. Much, much simpler and quieter.

You're suggesting the Roku completely replaces building a Plex box. How is that? I still have to store all my files somewhere and I'm trying to not have to use my main workstation. Is Roku's media management features as good as Plex? Does it scan for meta data and find previews and cover art and all that stuff?

I guess I'm not see how Roku alone is a complete replacement for Plex. I thought Roku just connects to various streaming services? Is it also a media management app like Plex?

No, not at all, it can't. I'm suggesting that if your video card isn't up to snuff, relegate the Plex PC to just Plex Server function and use the Roku as your player.

@JaredBusch said in Verizon's $70 Gig Internet Plan is Actually $200, Oops:

FiOS Gigabit Connection (Up to 940/880 Mbps

That is not even gigabit

My ISP advertises our 940/150 as Gigabit so I have to admit, I'm very jealous of the 880 Mbps up speeds. Lol

@guyinpv said in What's the current "standard" for a media server setup these days?:

@NashBrydges said in What's the current "standard" for a media server setup these days?:

@guyinpv You can plug the PC directly into the TV via HDMI (you'll want to make sure your video card also sends sound via the HDMI...not all do) but the noise is very quickly going to become annoying. It's hard to beat the silent Roku. Not to mention the Roku can take some stream and direct play them, relieving the stress from your PC for any transcoding work.

Good point about audio. Is this a requirement? I mean, can't I just run the audio out on the PC over to an audio input jack on the TV? Or is audio-over-HDMI a necessary standard for TVs?
My TV is about 6 or 7 years old plasma 40". It has HDMI and even USB ports but not a "smart" TV by any means.

It's up to you how you get audio "out"

My current setup runs the HDMI output from Roku to the receiver which handles all of the multi-channel audio (DTS, DTS-HD, DTS-MA, AC3...etc) and the receiver has a HDMI out that goes to the TV. So the receiver runs audio through the surround system and the TV on gets the video signal.

If you don't have a receiver in place but only a TV, if your video card handles audio via HDMI then you're good to go with the tv playing back both video and audio. If your video card does NOT support audio out via the HDMI then you'll probably have to resort to using some other method like component video + audio jacks from your video card and PC to your TV. But you'll lose a lot of quality that way.

You'll want to know what your Plex PC can manage for outputs and determine whether you even want to go down that road. But for the cost of a Roku these days, I'd spring for that and be done with it. Much, much simpler and quieter.

@scottalanmiller said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:

@NashBrydges said in How to Install Fedora 25 Minimal:

Is Fedora ext4 by default? Can you choose XFS during install?

XFS, EXT4, BtrFS... you can configure basically anything during the install.

Thanks.

Is Fedora ext4 by default? Can you choose XFS during install?

@guyinpv You can plug the PC directly into the TV via HDMI (you'll want to make sure your video card also sends sound via the HDMI...not all do) but the noise is very quickly going to become annoying. It's hard to beat the silent Roku. Not to mention the Roku can take some stream and direct play them, relieving the stress from your PC for any transcoding work.

@JaredBusch said in Marketing Campaign E-mail and Office365 - Check My Logic, Please:

I would need to see the ehaders, but I send email from a postfix relay with a valid return on my Office 365 server to other Office 365 users all the time and nothing is junked.

The only thing I did was to add the WAN IP of the location with the Postfix server as a new connector trusted by IP.

^^^ This ^^^ I did that for postfix and haven't had any spam flagging issues.

@wirestyle22 That works well if you can control your playback devices. I didn't have that luxury. So transcoding is a necessity. Even if I want to stream to my laptop while on layover or at a hotel, transcode is necessary. I could store multiple versions of the files but I've already got many many TBs or mkv containers at x264 and x265. Don't have the space for all the potential versions that natively play on so many players.

I have 4k TVs at home but my brother in law doesn't so if he is watching the same movie I am, it can play natively via Roku 4 for me but it can't for him.

@wirestyle22 The problem is that while transcoding, the CPU is working hard to stay ahead of the stream. So it wasn't a data access problem. Even the x265 encodes run around 35-45Mbps at most and that's easily accomplished just readin the data from the R510 as it's simply acting as network storage. But the Linux VM does the brunt of the work after that as it converts the media stream into a usable format for the player. For most setups, using standard disks would probably work fine. But throw in multiple x265 and x264 conversions and your VM will crap all over itself if it doesn't have fast media to write to...it won't be able to stay ahead of the playback streams.

Edit: fixed spelling

@wirestyle22 I even tossed around the idea of setting up a ramdisk on that host and use the ramdisk mapped to the Ubuntu VM to handle transcoding. I knew I might run into problems based on the x265 transcoding and the number of concurrent clients. But so far, that hasn't been necessary.

By comparison, I had a similar setup but running on a windows VM and it wouldn't transcode anything beyond 2 streams without a 40GB ramdisk. It would stutter all over the place.