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I have it installed. Just dropped the forwarder on the firewall so far. So it alerts me whenever something gets by the first box.... no alerts so far (I'd knock on wood if I could.)

@Dashrender said:

@MattSpeller Hmmm.. wonder if that's true?
trax.x10.mx/apps.html

This tool will scan your local certificate repository and tell if you there is anything odd or unexpected in the repository.

Also, do the Latitudes come with this Dell support software like the consumer models?

I think it's available through "Dell digital software delivery" as an option. We just got in 3 new 6440s so I'll check.

Basically, I'm asking, why would Dell get a pass assuming their business line wasn't effected, if Leveno doesn't get one for the same reason?

FWIW I would begin to look at HP (and have, but not seriously), except for the fact that we're tied to Dell for the next 3 years no matter what.

@WingCreative said:

... about the performance and efficiency gains one can expect from switching to nginx.

Most performance gains from nGinx are from developments in the last few months or relate only to certain workloads. For average users Apache is easier to use, far more mature, often the more performant for very small workloads, far more broadly compatible and known. Given those factors, people who need nGinx (like us, we are using it right now) tend to be trained admins and know when and why to deploy it and those that just need basic reliability and simplicity will get Apache by default.

Even today where Apache is not the big winner it used to be, it seems like it is still a sensible default.

Got this up and running last night. Here are my notes:

On AWS EC2 micro instance for PCI compliance, reliability, and practice with AWS. Would probably work just as well on Digital Ocean or Vultr.

Used Debian 8 64 bit HVM AMI to get things started, with SSH access from a specific IP and open ports 80 + 443.

Total list of software installed via apt-get:
nginx
php5-fpm
mariadb-client
mariadb-server
php5-mysql
curl
php5-curl
sendmail

I used Nginx's WordPress config as starting point. Had to modify the PHP socket to match the listen directive in /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf, but otherwise worked great.

Once I stopped getting 502 errors and loaded up the install files, things looked pretty good until I got to the license verification step. It said to put in the email address I bought the license with, but gave an error saying it wasn't recognized. I ended up forwarding my purchase receipt to the developer along with my error - this was around 11pm Tuesday evening. I went to bed, and by the time I had woken up I had two emails from the developer: one suggesting a possible fix on my end, and one indicating he had dug deeper on the problem - he found something on his end of things that might have been causing the error and would be working on fixing it today. I was pretty impressed with the quick response!

My hypothesis is that my .co email address was throwing some errors for the verification system but I have no real way of knowing for sure. Yet another reason why I'm moving away from a .co domain, as I've run into a couple of weird snags like this before... Either way, I tried it again last night and it succeeded. It's all hooked up to Stripe and, outside of setting up HTTPS for payments, seems ready to go!

A couple of hiccups along the way:

I didn't realize you needed to install php5-curl as well as php5-mysql at first, leading me to spend some time vehemently disagreeing with the install requirements page saying I didn't have cURL installed on the server. 502 Bad Gateway errors for the nginx WordPress config's PHP socket... I had to hunt down the location of the PHP5-FPM socket to fix this. Part of the installation includes setting 777 permissions on a few folders - I am going to experiment with setting those back down to something less worrisome and see if it breaks the installation tonight.

@art_of_shred said:

We've also had really good luck with Jabra Pro stuff. Any of their lower lines I avoid like the plague, but the Pro stuff is great. As much as I like Plantronics, I would actually rate Jabra Pro higher than Plantronics for functionality and ease of use in an office environment.

Downvote! Then again, I'm the PLT fanboy, so what can I say?

This is the one I've read and is written in a very basic but informational way.

http://www.amazon.com/Linux-System-Administration-Handbook-Edition-ebook/dp/B003YMNVCA/ref=pd_sim_351_3/182-4598279-8641861?ie=UTF8&refRID=0GS6X5556RA8X3S9NANE