@travisdh1 said in OVH Cloud, anyone use their VPS?:

@scottalanmiller said in OVH Cloud, anyone use their VPS?:

We use Vultr and are very happy. We've moved away from TacticalRMM to FoxRMM, our in house product (aka SodiumSuite.)

Vultr is one I've used in the past, but the pricing is on-par with Linode.

One major difference now that Linode has been bought by Akamai is the storage IOPS. I've run a couple tests, and they are using some sort of SAN instead of VSAN now. IOPS always max out at what you'd expect from a 200Gb network connection.

I might have to try out OVH Cloud. The price for 4vcorse and 8GB RAM starts at ~$5.00/month instead of the $25.00/month I'm currently paying at Linode.

Vultr is using NVMe locally for nodes as it should be. Blazing fast.

We use Vultr and are very happy. We've moved away from TacticalRMM to FoxRMM, our in house product (aka SodiumSuite.)

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@travisdh1
Ah- the good old days of DEC,.. I had once thought about looking to pick up a DEC PDP 11/23 setup..

DEC OpenVMS is the not so fond memories from my first IT job. Had to have something to oppose the good memories of SGI IRIX.

I checked the current status of VMS and according to the company...

"OpenVMS V9.2-3 is available and running on hundreds of servers worldwide"

Hundreds, OMG

That's kind of crazy that any remain today!

Yeah, in some ways. It even has a web management interface now. I kinda want a copy.

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@gjacobse said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1
Ah- the good old days of DEC,.. I had once thought about looking to pick up a DEC PDP 11/23 setup..

DEC OpenVMS is the not so fond memories from my first IT job. Had to have something to oppose the good memories of SGI IRIX.

I checked the current status of VMS and according to the company...

"OpenVMS V9.2-3 is available and running on hundreds of servers worldwide"

Hundreds, OMG

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@gjacobse said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1
Ah- the good old days of DEC,.. I had once thought about looking to pick up a DEC PDP 11/23 setup..

DEC OpenVMS is the not so fond memories from my first IT job. Had to have something to oppose the good memories of SGI IRIX.

I was lucky to start IT on SunOS. Only worked on OpenVMS as an end user a little later.

@gjacobse How can using the easiest OS be too much for anyone, let alone HAM radio people? Seems like the perfect fit. That's the exact crowd that I'd expect to have been on Xenix in the mid 1990s and moved to Linux or BSD in the late 1990s. What software is on Windows and not on Linux? I'm looking on wikipedia for HAM software and it seems like it's all Linux these days.

@travisdh1 said in What Are Virtualized Applications?:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are Virtualized Applications?:

Article is totally false. That's NOT a virtualized application, that's a standard remote app as we've been using in the industry for over 30 years. When I started in IT ini 1994 this was an established, well known part of how the X Window system worked, in UNIX... ALL applications are like this!

I remember running full fledged engineering apps remotely in the 90s on IRIX and OpenVMS machines.

Have I posted about Kasm Workspaces here yet? Makes it really easy to provide remote apps like a Xen remoteapp environment, just easier, quicker, and open source.

Right? THis is SO normal. Microsoft was pushing these hard in 2003 with the Terminal Server at the time, too.

Secret of Monkey Island, Special Edition

Having a video game evening with my daughter.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse I just made a video today about why we use desktops as servers now!

Well first off I get this message:

Uhm.. okay.

Desktops as servers; in some cases - they are useful. Sadly the issue I am running into is that the twelve year old computer has more cores than anything I have available to me in the office,.. I am running an old Dell with 8-cores, and everything I have only has 4-cores.

Were I running several rPi VMs that might be fine, but I am running full Windows or Linux for testing and Ham Radio. It's working but a little strained and I can't do much more without maxing the system resources out.

Oh well.. will find something some time..

What Ham radio tasks is using so many resources?

Article is totally false. That's NOT a virtualized application, that's a standard remote app as we've been using in the industry for over 30 years. When I started in IT ini 1994 this was an established, well known part of how the X Window system worked, in UNIX... ALL applications are like this!

@Oksana Isn't that a REMOTE application?

@gjacobse I once had one in my hands, but it was too costly to power.

Today is @Dominica birthday

Software updates, and doing some late night coding. Polishing off some wine. We closed our second restaurant on the beach (converting it to additional hotel space) and have lots of leftover wine to go through. Watching a movie while pounding out some code.

Anaconda 3

@gjacobse I just made a video today about why we use desktops as servers now!

@Oksana Nutanix can't be trusted and can't be considered business class in any sense. They are deceptive and having any contact with them would constitute a risk in any environment.

Saturday morning coding. Having some coffee. Waiting for my potato pancakes to be delivered.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller

Sorry to hear this -

Is this State side or there in Nicaragua?

Nicaragua.