Posts made by zachary715

I'm fascinated by the number of people who report issues with sleep these days. I've never had trouble sleeping and my body has always demanded 8-9 hours nightly. For those of you who struggle with it, have you ever seen a physician about it? Do you have any ideas as to why it's tough for you and things you think would help?

@pmoncho said in Email server options:

@Dashrender said in Email server options:

@scottalanmiller said in Email server options:

@Dashrender said in Email server options:

Now fine, you said you have some existing hardware that you can use for it, but will be replacing it in a year or two - that cost should definitely be added in.

Should factor, for sure. But it is often super cheap. Zimbra or MailCow use very few resources compared to something like Exchange. The per user cost gets super low in most cases. If you want a top end cost, price it out on Vultr, Digital Ocean, or Linode and see what it would cost that way. It'll be "low". And running it on your own will always be way less. So its super conservative.

Interesting. My issue on my VM platform is storage - I don't have a 500 GB+ left over to offer all 100 of my users 5+ GB

I wish I could get my 5+ GB users to understand how useless their email hoarding is. Half the emails they keep for 8+ years are irrelevant to anything today.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Anyone else notice on Nextcloud 16 the File Handling settings are missing from the settings page? I know they are normally greyed out but it is totally missing.

That is not released stable yet, so hell no.

Looks like it is technically the latest stable per their website, just hasn't been pushed to existing installs yet.

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Google admits Pixel 3 sales have fallen year over year

Can the Pixel 3a save Google's struggling smartphone program?
Alphabet, Google's parent company, had its earnings call yesterday, and, while these calls are primarily about advertising click-through rates and traffic-acquisition costs, yesterday's call actually contained some information about Google's smartphone sales

I'm very much looking forward to the Pixel 3a. I hated they ended the Nexus program and went strictly high end. If the prices are reasonable, I imagine this is the line I'll be moving to eventually

Giving Fedora 30 Deepin environment a spin...

@IRJ said in Skyetel auto enables billable services without notice:

Can we please just nuke this whole thread? All the feedback was already taken into consideration. It's really not becoming a good look for anyone.

If anything, I think it's been a good look on Skyetel and an example of their customer service. Granted, it's out in the open and therefore have incentive to do better, but I think they've handled the bashing well and taken appropriate steps to satisfy the needy.

@JaredBusch said in Skyetel auto enables billable services without notice:

@scottalanmiller said in Skyetel is a scam:

Well, more like hiding the fact that is clearly isn't a scam and you made a false statement.

I made a statement that was factual based on all the information I had at the time. I in no way made an intentionally false statement.

Oh are we allowed to do that? Jump to a (radical) conclusion prematurely and then defend it by "I didn't have all the facts"?

@zachary715 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to convince the sales man to go with Unifi AP's instead of the Cisco Meraki MR33 for another new software they have added to our list.

Speaking of which, should be receiving my new Unifi nanoHD's today to replace the old AP LR (non-AC).

Well well, look who just arrived...

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to convince the sales man to go with Unifi AP's instead of the Cisco Meraki MR33 for another new software they have added to our list.

Speaking of which, should be receiving my new Unifi nanoHD's today to replace the old AP LR (non-AC).

@travisdh1 said in AMD Vs Intel:

First of all, Ryzen 3 is the upcoming CPU line from AMD. If you're supplier has access to those for less than an i5, probably a steal at this point as they're not generally available yet.

Ryzen 3 has been available since AMD introduced the series. Don't get that confused with what generation they're on. There's Ryzen 3, 5, and 7 which are supposed to be comparable to Intel's line of i3, i5, and i7.

Yes you likely would save on Ryzen 3 vs i5, because they're not directly comparable products. A more fair comparison would be Ryzen 5 vs i5 or Ryzen 3 vs i3. I would think you'd still see some savings, but maybe not quite as significant.

As others have stated, it comes down to your performance needs. Both are solid platforms.

Doing my annual song and dance with Comcast trying to keep my home bill down. Nearly doubled this time after the promotion I was on expired. Hopefully, I'll have continued success hopping on promotions to keep it low.

@JaredBusch When you/they make a decision, I'd like to know what the decision was and what ultimate factors led to the decision.

They all have basic Azure AD functionality and features, but the premium stuff doesn't come standard on any Office 365 plan I don't believe. It's a separate add-on. The Microsoft 365 plans include it to various levels I believe and you can get it with bundles like EM+S and such.

@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Anyone recommend a good scanner that is under $1000?

Barcode scanner or a MFP?

oh like a fujitsu scan snap

@LilAng We use multiple Scansnaps here and they work great. We use the S1300i for low volume scanning and iX500 for higher volume. We still have numerous older models in use like the S1500 as well that still work great.

@scottalanmiller said in Email server options:

@zachary715 said in Email server options:

Ok I didn't know Zoho included spam filtering. I thought you were asking for that earlier but you were actually referring to the Open Source options. My bad.

All business class hosted email does. Even Zimbra and MailCow do. Only things that don't are hobby systems like GoDaddy, and even that probably does.

Definitely all of the open source does, even the open source hobby systems.

I'm showing my ignorance here. I was basing that assumption off of what was said previously in the thread which I took to mean it wasn't included. Thanks

@scottalanmiller said in Email server options:

@zachary715 said in Email server options:

Even being a year or two down the road, that's extra hardware you know you wouldn't otherwise need if hosted therefore a portion of the hardware upgrade costs should be allocated today in my opinion.

I would generally agree with this. Unless, and this is more common than you think, the company will not buy less hardware even if you wouldn't add in the workload. I have lots of companies that have a minimum purchasing threshhold for servers and it is so high, that all of their workloads, plus tons more, always have plenty of resources. So something like email would remain free for them essentially forever, because the resources that it needs diminish rapidly over time.

So I agree, but make sure you evaluate reasonable projected excess resources as part of the equation.

So why do they have minimum purchasing thresholds if they're exceedingly greater than what they need? What's driving that?

@Obsolesce said in Email server options:

Seems like 120 users X $6 per month equals way more over two years than upgrading them on prem Exchange... At least initial costs. Maybe if you factor in labor, cost of Windows and MS management, time etx, perhaps cloud is better?

Not sure where $6/mo is coming from. He's comparing Zoho @ $1/mo plus extra storage (roughly $2.25/mo) to EOP1 @ $4/mo. And then comparing that to on-prem.

@JaredBusch said in Email server options:

I managed to find the PDF of the original Exchange 2010 order form Jan 3, 2012.
$6,344 for Exchange 2010, 70 CALs, & 2 licenses of Server 2008 R2 (one for something else).

Adjusting the 2010 order to 120 users (was purchased over time as they grew) it is definitely more expensive now.
These numbers also happen to be from the same VAR.

That's interesting. The difference in virtualization rights could have some factor in Server OS costs. Exchange pretty much matches inflation. Exchange User CALs definitely higher.

@wrx7m said in Samsung magician - Thoughts?:

I have it but only really use it to check drive status and for firmware updates. I did used to use the RAPID mode, but it essentially just fills up available RAM with cached files.

Same here. Really couldn't tell that great a performance difference with RAPID mode on and I was getting low memory errors. Magician performance metrics said that it was faster, but real world not a meaningful difference. I never use it now.

@JaredBusch said in Email server options:

@zachary715 said in Email server options:

Just curious, if Zoho + spam/malware filtering seemed to check all the boxes at $3/user/mo, would you immediately go Zoho vs EOP1 simply based on cost? Is cost the ultimate factor?

Except it doens't check all the boxes. It is Workspaces, not just email. That is an entire collection of shit the client does not want or need.

Also $3/user is more than $1/user + 200 GB Storage (150/year / 120 users = 1.25) = $2.25/user

Ok I didn't know Zoho included spam filtering. I thought you were asking for that earlier but you were actually referring to the Open Source options. My bad.

I wasn't referencing the Worskpaces option, I was assuming $1 Zoho plus $1-2 spam/malware filtering per user.