They can afford it now?

Att’s usage meter sucks.

I need to dig out the eeePC I have. If I could get a netbook with a better screen resolution, it would probably become my daily driver.

Network Analyzer can do it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.techet.netanalyzer.an

Ah fuck, rincewind.

Unifi. I’ve got a box of APs as ewaste just sitting in the basement. Every so often I would get more ewaste from companies I work with.

I don’t need the most demanding of wifi systems. I hardwire most of my stuff whenever possible. And I have a fairly small home. A single AP on the main floor, 1 AP on the basement. 1 AP in the detached garage.

Most of my wifi devices are iot things on their own vlan.

I’m a big fan of ipmi so I can remotely manage it. I’d look at one of these now: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/supermicro-superserver-e200-8de300-8d-review/

I don’t really like having to connect a monitor and keyboard when working on my servers now.

Storage is really limited for TV and movies though if you are running Plex.

If you want to host something like libre office, just remember how important backups actually are. If you take the risk of hosting business documents, make sure you do everything necessary to protect them.

Finding the correct bolt size, thread pitch, material, and trusting that when I order grade 8 bolts, I’m actually getting grade 8 makes Amazon quite a pain in the ass.

If it’s something I don’t care too much about, yea Amazon is fine. But when I want to trust my life to it or it’s going to take some serious stress I’m going to want McMaster.

Restrict the number of accounts that can join that family group. And/or remove the ability to share the library from the main account for repeated offenses.

Or require multiple family members accounts to have to cheat before the owner account is banned.

On her computer, why not just use Thunderbird on it? Or even outlook, or whatever she likes. She just needs to pick the software.

On her phone, or even yours, why the stuff with accessing Thunderbird through vnc. Just add the server to whatever mail app on your phones?

If you want a web based thing, roundcube or sogo. But Thunderbird is gonna suck the way you are trying to use it.

Stupid rspamd default config on my server blocked an email confirming an order from rayban I guess because it was the first time it saw an email from them? Couldn’t even release it, which annoyed me greatly.

And it also put a confirmation from a hotel into quarantine because the resort didn’t have a valid spf record. But at least I could release that one.

I ended up making it much more permissive as a result. But it was super annoying.

It’s got a hell of a datacenter.

https://www.switch.com/las-vegas/

From LA to Vegas. Took the servers down end of business one night, drove it all night, installed it and got it back online before start of business the next day.

In the middle of something 200tb for my Plex server going from a 12 bay system to a 36 LFF system. But I’ve also literally driven servers across the desert because it was faster than trying to move data from one datacenter to another.

Fucking tech solutions to a manager problem. The manager should care about the metrics of wait time and client satisfaction.

If waits are low and satisfaction is high. Then who gives fuck all about what techs do in between calls.

Metrics like calls per tech or average length of calls could be used to better understand tech efficiency. Or even rings before pickup. A good pbx can help ensure calls are relatively equally spread between techs. This helps keep one tech from over working for another slacking off. You can have utilization goals so that you aren’t under or over staffed (I’m of the opinion that a techs utilization should be roughly 75-80% and they should have downtime in their shifts to prevent burnout.)

It’s stupid, inhumane, and impossible to expect an employee to track, bill, and work 100% of their shift.

I learned nginx when I was hosting websites. I had it set up and running when it was time to add reverse proxies into my setup. It didn’t take much more from the virtual hosts I was already using.

Now, I don’t host many individual sites anymore and haproxy has a plugin on my firewall for the handful of services I run now.

Servermonkey.com

Harddrivesdirect.com

Unixsurplus.com

Techmikeny.com

I’ve used all these sites before for used parts/servers

You can get an older model Samsung Evo 1tb SSD new for under $100. Those have been good drives for me.

You can probably find something to shuck used if you don’t care too much for reliability.

Regardless, get a second disk even something attached to your main PC to handle backups.

RPi are nice, but imo are getting expensive and if you aren’t using the i/o pins just not worth it. If I were to just start out again I’d pickup a used laptop. Higher specs than a RPi and built in battery backup.

Yup. I run those kind of clusters. But unless your in home datacenter territory, that sort of config isn’t likely to happen in self hosted.