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bdunham7:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on April 08, 2021, 03:41:53 am ---The lesson here is, whilst it's great to have a fully redundant automatic backup server, it was kinda silly to have it in the same datacenter!
We are going to ask Gorillaservers is they can provision one of the boxes in their LA data center, so if a whole city/state goes out the server will still operate.

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The thing is that if it is 20 feet away, a 10GBASE-T connection can maintain the sync with a very small initial investment and no recurring costs--and microseconds of latency.  A 10Gb/s connection to another state would cost lotsa bucks and would still have 1000X or more latency.

bdunham7:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on April 08, 2021, 03:41:53 am ---It's currently still operating in a degraded state, and performance is surrently impacted until the caches catch up.
Gorillaservers upgraded the server box (maybe the old box was water damaged?) from Dual Xeon 2620V2 from the older dual L5630

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I just noticed this--they're both pretty old tech, actually.  Spinning drives too? 

Halcyon:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on April 08, 2021, 03:41:53 am ---I aslo learned the importance of relying on a single email server. I was surprised at the stuff I couldn't do that relied on my primary email for confirmations etc.

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I'm actually surprised to learn that you weren't using Google Workspace or Office 365 Dave. For the sake of $8-9/month per user, you can have all of the Google services, redundancy, spam filtering and 30-something email aliases. I haven't run my own mail server for decades and it's a bit of a thing of the past.

Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: Halcyon on April 08, 2021, 05:30:41 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on April 08, 2021, 03:41:53 am ---I aslo learned the importance of relying on a single email server. I was surprised at the stuff I couldn't do that relied on my primary email for confirmations etc.

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I'm actually surprised to learn that you weren't using Google Workspace or Office 365 Dave. For the sake of $8-9/month per user, you can have all of the Google services, redundancy, spam filtering and 30-something email aliases. I haven't run my own mail server for decades and it's a bit of a thing of the past.

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That still seems like a lot of money.

james_s:

--- Quote from: Halcyon on April 08, 2021, 05:30:41 am ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on April 08, 2021, 03:41:53 am ---I aslo learned the importance of relying on a single email server. I was surprised at the stuff I couldn't do that relied on my primary email for confirmations etc.

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I'm actually surprised to learn that you weren't using Google Workspace or Office 365 Dave. For the sake of $8-9/month per user, you can have all of the Google services, redundancy, spam filtering and 30-something email aliases. I haven't run my own mail server for decades and it's a bit of a thing of the past.

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We used the Google suite for a while at my job, absolutely hated it since it was all crippled browser based stuff, they don't even have a proper desktop email client. When we were acquired we went back to Microsoft, which while I'm not the biggest fan of Microsoft, their Outlook for email and calendar blows the doors off of Google's clunky offerings. Google Docs is nice for shared documents but the lack of a desktop version really kills it for most other uses.

For email, yeah, I wouldn't bother hosting my own server, but for the client side, no way, I don't rent software, and I absolutely hate browser based productivity applications. They are a total pain in the ass and never offer the same functionality of a desktop application.

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