Following the MSP forums would be enough for any business decision maker to consider other options.

"What you're getting only $90/desktop, I am getting $150 a desktop per month".

@Dashrender In regards to cloud shares/storage, I picked up an eval of Sharefile along the way and its probably a better developed product than anything I have used thus far. Onedrive, Dropbox, etc cant touch it.

I am looking forward to seeing Nextcloud evolve.

Sorry a little off topic...

So Veeam free for Server 2016 as an agent and then you buy Veeam? for your server/repository?

Just wanted to add @bj to this thread that I think a $100-ish Cloud Router from Mikrotik would blow most hardware away, including Ubiquiti, on pure performance. With the $50 and under models you are still getting 1 million PPS. The new cloud router series really has a crazy amount of power.

This still coming from a pure PPS (packets per second) point of view.

I think the cheapest cloud router has 12 to 16 cores That would only count for the core routers I am more familiar with (12 to 24 now) in the $500 range.

Very poor marketing in the states but very popular with western country WISPS.

And my goal is just to backup this single multi-purpose server I have deployed so I can bare-metal restore it and all the data whenever necessary. I doubt I will have need to back up any other systems with is.

Do they have a cloud backup (monthly) solution or do you have to license and deploy your own Veeam server?

Definitely looks like a lot has changed. I have not really had any concern or interest in something like this in a long time.

@scottalanmiller I haven't heard of Veeam since maybe 2009 or 2008. I feel like it was just getting started then.

This is basically realtime data protection, full fidelity backups? Perusing their website now...

@dafyre Yeah I seem to recall OpenGL and GPU Virtualization. Are you servicing your locations with remote desktop?

Was briefly excited at the product premise, then read the rest of the thread.

Would be great to start a product review database that was not "review/opinion" but more "facts"

@dafyre I believe there is something going on with RDSH in 2016 that is still better than WIndows 10, Remote FX aside.

I am not real excited about anything else Microsoft related. I was going to trial Citrix but I am not sure it could really get any better in regards to performance.

Just got this back from there lightening fast support...

Thanks for contacting us. If you are extremely concerned about uptime, a dedicated instance may suit your needs better. However, as noted, we've implemented upgrades to your VPS instance's host node that should prevent this issue moving forward. If you have any further questions, please let us know, and thanks for using Vultr!

So its tit for tat. Actually glad that I don't have an installation issue.

Now I need to get serious about picking a backup solution...

@dafyre Over the internet or on the LAN?

It is a tiny computer with a 5400rpm drive in it, 8gb of ram. I have yet to attempt an actual remote desktop deployment with Win 10 but I may give it a try.

I am not sure you could deploy RDS with Win 10 on Vultr. I would assume it requires Hyper-V.

I launched a VM in NJ for my little RDSH deployment and I just realized I had missed some email notices from them. On the 12th, 15th and 19th I got emails with this in the body...

"Regarding the following subscriptions:
16384 MB Server - x.x.x.x (xxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx.com) in New Jersey

Our monitoring system indicated an issue with the hardware node hosting the instances listed in this email. Our engineering team has investigated the issue and initiated a restart of the host node in question.

Please note: While this event rebooted the instances listed in this email, we expect no impact on data and/or configurations.

I ponder again whether the dedicated instance would be better (currently sold out). Or maybe its just a rare outlying set of issues as a result of upgrades to expand capacity.

Anyway had this happen before?

@Dashrender its an $80 VULTR instance So 16GB RAM, 20GB SSD etc

@dafyre Yes deployed as session host its great. RDP to a windows 10 host just doesn't feel as fluid to me but I admit its not an SSD windows 10 machine.

@Dashrender said in Remix Mini: as a Thin Client:

Back when YouTube was mainly Flash based, I never got it to work worth damn in Thin Clients, but if I used a full PC via Windows XP/7 it worked fine!

Windows 7 and 2008 R2 I believe was RDP 8.1 and that was when UDP and a better RDP client came into play. Ive seen some plugins for flash too.

So far I have had zero luck finding a non-windows thin client that supports even RDP 8.

RDP 10 is incredible. We loaded up Minecraft and you cant tell you are in a session.

@EddieJennings I don't know about the third, but if you start a hosting trial at freepbxhosting.com you get the first two free. Even if you then mode your install to Vultr it seems the licenses follow you for free.

@dafyre yeah please let me know if you do. I'm tempted to order one just to try...

Would be interested to know if you can do things like watching YouTube in a session.

@iroal said in Firewalls, the good, the bad, and the ugly.:

@PenguinWrangler said in Firewalls, the good, the bad, and the ugly.:

@Tim_G Give me a Sonicwall device and I will take it to my gun range for target practice. That's all they are good for. ESPECIALLY after Dell bought them. Sonicwall is awful. Nothing but issues.

Last year we change our SonicWall for Pfsense.
Very happy with the change.

I don't think Sonicwall is a bad product, main reason for the change was the expensive annual support for SonicWall, about 800€/Year

SonicWALL issues I remember..

It manipulated VoIP traffic regardless off what you turned off

Had terrible NAT Coning issues, bug reports were rejected

The command line interface was ass backwards

I think the only time I see a customer have it was when their IT preferred it. I believe your MSP/IT guys preferred for the same reason as SW. They give you software to manage all your customers in one place.

Single Pane of Glass trumps actual features and reliability pretty often. If I ever had a business that needed IT I am not sure I would trust your average MSP.

@Dashrender watchguard is very fail