@Fredtx said in Website Creation Recommendations:

Any idea how much I should charge the client being that I have 0 experience setting up Wordpress?

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I'd go for a bluetooth headset that works with both computers, smartphones and deskphones (with BT).
We use Plantronics Voyager Legend. Has a very good noise cancelling mic and decent battery life (7 hours of talk). Can connect to two devices at the same time.

Microservice architecture was really a means to an end and not the goal itself.

When you have large teams of developers, you simply have to start divide things up into smaller chunks - one way or the other. If you think about the practical problems of trying to maintain and develop a big piece of software while it's running 24/7 with zero interruptions, it's hard to imagine any other way of doing it.

If you don't have those constraints, then using that type of architecture doesn't make as much sense.

@Dashrender said in On prem Exchange hardware questions.:

@scottalanmiller said in On prem Exchange hardware questions.:

@JasGot said in On prem Exchange hardware questions.:

Are SSDs overkill for Exchange?

SSDs aren't overkill for a desktop. Unless you've got an extreme edge case, spinning drives haven't had a place in servers in several years now.

I want to agree with this, but the prices are still kinda high for enterprise drives... you have to look at the financial aspect in my opinion... it's quite possible that SSDs will be the way to go.

I.e. HDD = RAID 10 or RAID 6 (min)

135 GB of Exchange data is nothing Two 500 GB HDDs in RAID 1 will get you there, but will it have the performance you want, not likely, but two SSDs in RAID 10 will.

But perhaps 4 or 6 HDDs in RAID 10 will be 'good enough' and possibly less expensive than 2 SSDs? it's math plus requirements.

Enterprise 2.5" drives are not cheap either.

A 600GB 2.5" 10K drive is slightly more expensive than a 480GB enterprise SSD SATA drive. And the SSD will of course outperform the 10K drive easily.

If Dell has it the other way around they are trying to get rid of old stock or something.

@JasGot said in On prem Exchange hardware questions.:

@Pete-S said in On prem Exchange hardware questions.:

during it's 5 year lifespan

Do SSD really have a 5 year lifespan? This is shorter than many companies keep their servers in production.

If you buy Dell or HP, you buy it to able to get support easily. If you go outside the warranty, well, then you're on your own. Servers have 5 year warranty max and so have the enterprise SSDs and HDDs. So yeah, the lifespan is 5 years but it might work for 20 years, who knows...

@scottalanmiller said in 75 User Exchange On Prem vs. Office 365 Cost Comparison:

Macros....are a flag that MS Office is being used for inappropriate purposes.

Amen to that.

The job required a scalpel but all you had was a hammer so that is what you used. Excel is the hammer.

@notverypunny said in Windows Servers Archived onto Linux, suggestions/help pls:

@travisdh1
++ XO also exposes and simplifies a lot of functionality that would otherwise require mucking around in the xen CLI

Unfortunately XO also lack some of the features that the native windows clients has. Like custom fields for the VMs. Something we use all the time.

XO is also much slower than the native client for certain use cases. And it lacks the powerful tree structures that the native window client has. They're working on a new UI I think. XO is also resource intensive, much more so than many other web interfaces, but that's a minor thing.

For us the management tools matter. If xcp-ng drops the powerful windows client, we will migrate to something else, probably KVM. KVM has more mature tools for automation as well but we use our own scripts for xen so we get by.

@gjacobse said in Pre-Planning new domain and environment:

Some encouraging news this morning on the startup that has been on hold due to legal matters for the last year. And while I don’t want to put the cart before the tree is cut down, I began some preliminary considerations on how this new environment may start.

As it take a bit of time to spec, build and receive hardware, it seems that a hosted / cloud system seems the best place to start. A functional domain, file sharing, email and PBX can all be spun up in short order, allowing for the policies and security to be started. All since I have yet to hear I’d the building is cleared.

That said, does it make sense to start this way? Of course it still has to be approved, but many business related services can be spun up in days rather than weeks.

Many times I read or see of going physical to hosted or at least hybrid, rare to I see - but am pretty certain it is done - of starting hosted and going hybrid.

I’ve managed to chew through a box of pencils - waiting for this to begin, its an exciting prospect, and one I have so wanted to share for a years time. It may be in the early stages of the ending legal battles - but I am hopeful that soon I’ll be able to share more details of the start-up.

Isn't a functional domain, file sharing, email automatically solved by just signing up to M365?
PBX either as a service or hosted on Vultr or whatever.

Why are you even thinking about hybrid cloud?

@gjacobse said in Pre-Planning new domain and environment:

It’s the business - designs will be large file- GB each. It’s also the requirement of the owner.

I think it's not hard to make those decisions. It's just about picking what's best for your needs. And separate your needs into different categories. For instance the needs of the administration of the company is not the same what the company actually does (what they produce).

If you have a video editing company you probably need big local storage on-prem. But the email, file sharing office files etc can run on M365.

Most big companies are hybrids. They have workloads in the cloud, SaaS, on-prem datacenter and often colo datacenter.

Pick what best for your situation. Nothing wrong with starting on cloud and hosted and going to colo for instance. Using your own infrastructure makes sense if you have enough volume but not for a couple of small workloads.

Don't know if this helps in your application but if you have old files you can just decrypt them with the old key. If it's important to store them in an encrypted state you can encrypt them again with the new key. After that you can revoke the old key.

@Pete-S said in Formatting text instructions into html?:

@JaredBusch said in Formatting text instructions into html?:

I love markdown for this.

How are these files being presented?

That really determines how you need to design it.

Text files are *.md but I want to convert them to html and put them on a webserver as well. I was hoping there is some utility that can turn *.md into *.html, perhaps with a CSS file for styling.

Actually I'm kind of stupid. I see now standalone editors for markdown actually have export to html and pdf and what not as options already. So I can use that to generate html files.

@DustinB3403 said in Intel Chipset SATA RAID Controller:

As far as I can tell this is all software RAID so I can't even query the controller for drive health.

Well, you don't need to query the controller because there is none. One less failure point

Query the drives.

On a linux system you'd often see read/write errors in the system log if you have a drive that is failing.

You can run smart tests on the drives as well.

@scottalanmiller said in Asus ZenBook UX334FLC-AH79 with Linux:

@Pete-S said in Asus ZenBook UX334FLC-AH79 with Linux:

Too small to live off I think

I'm surprisingly adept at small screen life. When you have to pack it daily and always carry it around, you start to be willing to sacrifice things for size and weight that you would think were crazy if it was just a more normal laptop usage where it's on the same desk most of the time or just going in a bag in the car.

Yeah, I can see where you're coming from. My laptop use is more like packing it up in the morning, putting it on a desk somewhere and working on it all day. So small or super lightweight is not that important to me. So I consider 15.6" the smallest I want to use.

@scottalanmiller said in How to use firewall-cmd to verify that tcp 80 & 443 is open?:

@JaredBusch said in How to use firewall-cmd to verify that tcp 80 & 443 is open?:

@Pete-S You are over complicating this.

You check with the designated tool for the system as noted.

Either you see it is open or you see it is not.

If something is working but nothing is found, then you have either a compromised system or a snowflake system. Either way the system would need fixed.

His concern is that the system wasn't built by him, so he's trying to find every possible source of configuration.

That's correct.

You guys are right though. It's complicated looking at every possible way to configure the firewall so it makes sense to test the "normal" way and leave it at that.

One thing that would be nice to have, something that I've used on hardware firewalls, is a command that will simulate packets through the firewall rules to see if they will pass or not.

I've not seen something like that for iptables/netfilter.

@stacksofplates said in Asus ZenBook UX334FLC-AH79 with Linux:

@scottalanmiller said in Asus ZenBook UX334FLC-AH79 with Linux:

@Pete-S said in Asus ZenBook UX334FLC-AH79 with Linux:

@scottalanmiller said in Asus ZenBook UX334FLC-AH79 with Linux:

I'm looking at buying this Asus ZenBook, but find no resources talking about what challenges there are getting Linux, hopefully Ubuntu, running on there. Generally the ZenBooks rank really well for use with Linux, but this one has this weird touch pad that worries me. Anyone know anything about it?

Sorry, I don't. But why even bother with something weird like this? Why not buy something you know for sure works?

What product would that be? Lenovo Carbon X1 yes, at much higher price.

XPS. They ship with Linux.

Scott said he wanted a real GPU, not Intel's CPU integrated, for video editing.

XPS is small and neat (and an ergonomic disaster to work with IMHO) but doesn't have a real GPU.

@JaredBusch

Think you need some more sudo in the "Update the PHP Opcache config" section.

And I think you need to be root to create conf files under apache as well:
"Create the nextcloud apache config file" section

@JaredBusch said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

Because you cannot sudo cat >> /restricted/folder/fuck.conf << EOF

I wouldn't know. I just go root and go to work. I'm too lazy to type sudo a hundred times. Probably frowned upon but I don't care.

@JaredBusch said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

@Pete-S said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

sudo sed -i -e 's/(^DocumentRoot\s*).*$/\1"/var/www/html/nextcloud"/' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Better sed. I removed the \s*

I think you can simplify it way more.

• you don't need -e
• don't use the / separator, use for instance #. So s#expression#replacement#. Then you don't have to escape your paths. And then you can put your variables straight in.

@Pete-S said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

@JaredBusch said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

@Pete-S said in Setup Nextcloud 19.0.4 on Fedora 32:

sudo sed -i -e 's/(^DocumentRoot\s*).*$/\1"/var/www/html/nextcloud"/' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Better sed. I removed the \s*

I think you can simplify it way more.

• you don't need -e
• don't use the / separator, use for instance #. So s#expression#replacement#. Then you don't have to escape your paths. And then you can put your variables straight in.

Don't think you need the sed script inside a quoted string either.

Maybe something like this:

sudo sed -i s#\(^DocumentRoot\).*$#\1$WWW_PATH/$APP_FOLDER# /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

If you want quotes around the sed "instructions" use " so you get variable expansion, and not '.
But you don't need to quote a string as long as it doesn't contain spaces.