Scotch.io's guide to Eloquent was helpful, too.

Doing some work with Laravel and wanted to collect resources as I found them.

The Learning Laravel Book was a decent place to start. It's up to date and a bit of it is free online.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just finished monthly evaluation meeting with my supervisor

monthly?

That's no fun!

@NerdyDad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Open enrollment benefits meeting. Finally a year without a premium increase.

Just a basic increase

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Reid-Cooper said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@murpheous said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just collected money for office mega billions tickets. We are going to win!

Yeah we put our money into a pot as well.

Unlike Canada which put their money into pot.

LOL

Probably a safer bet.

Pay out is much more assured.

That's a common tactic. Make free customers keep thinking about the vendor and that they are getting something for free. VMware does that, too.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@murpheous said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just collected money for office mega billions tickets. We are going to win!

Yeah we put our money into a pot as well.

Unlike Canada which put their money into pot.

LOL

Why the SATA cable? The server and the drive should both be SAS.

Nice write up, thanks!

@GodfatherX64 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

learning about Gluster and Ceph and which one is better for my needs to deploy

Nice

@hari said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:

I am leaning to Floor Standing Server Rack (foresee future need to add storage), Intel Xeon processors,

I am assuming that you mean a Tower server? Physically, obviously, you need only a single server. So having a server rack is likely overkill. A whole rack just to hold one small server probably doesn't make sense.

Intel Xeon processor, singular. A single processor will be way more than what you need unless there is something that you have not mentioned here. File servers, Sharepoint, AD, web servers are all things that use very little processor and only seventy users, that's not much at all.

I'm confused you ask what form factor but earlier you asked which cloud host. Surely it is one or the other. If you are going with a cloud system you will have no physical server. If you have a physical server, you will have no cloud host?

@hari said in Server Setup for Legal Firm:

We need AD and share point = Server A, Server B File Server (Heavy usage due to Documents and archives) (File Share back up to Cloud) Which cloud service should I Use? Web Hosting and one to for Client Database Management. Server C (Can the web hosting and Client database management system be on one Server?)

By "server", I am believing that you are intending to say "VM"? You only want one server, surely. Even at your top end projection of seventy users, you are not big enough to consider a second server yet.

Server A - you never put AD and Sharepoint together. Very different systems that are meant to be on their own. AD should be one VM, Sharepoint another.

Server B - why a separate file server from the file server you just mentioned, Sharepoint? And if you need to mix AD with something, it should be the fileserver, not Sharepoint.

Which cloud service? For what? To host your servers? Vultr is popular around here and supports Windows. Azure would be popular typically, as well.

Server C - web host and client data on the same VM seems like a very bad idea.

Cheap meaning low cost, of course.

Some cheap systems like Netgear or Ubiquiti support that, I believe.

@dustinb3403 said in Dell Perc H710P 1GB:

Perc H710P

No need for a battery, it's better than that. It has non-volatile cache.

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

@reid-cooper said in Non-IT News Thread:

Eight Year Old Named Saga Pulls Pre-Viking Era Sword from Lake in Sweden

Pretty sure that makes them King Saga now.

They said in the article that people are Tweeting that she might be the next Queen of Sweden

@donahue Welcome

Eight Year Old Named Saga Pulls Pre-Viking Era Sword from Lake in Sweden

I had to deal with one that couldn't use its docking station correctly after the 1803 install. Had to be removed from the dock to be powered on and the monitors stopped working.

No plans this weekend, just how I like it.