Rackspace Cloud vs. Amazon EC2
This may be a dumb question, and I'm not even sure this is the right subreddit for this question... our company plans on hosting a few projects away from our physical dedicated servers. We're not sure...
View ArticlePredecessor locked the rack and lost the key.
And I can't find a service tag # for the rack - without it, I can't get Dell to give me a replacement (was on the phone or 2 hours with their customer "support" today). Do I show up tomorrow with a...
View ArticleI HATE YOU VERIZON!!!!
Phones have been down since Friday afternoon, because get this, the trunk line got wet. Yeah sure it rained on friday but it was NOTHING, not enough to take the phones out. So ALL our T1's lost power,...
View ArticleHas anyone ever successfully been delisted from SORBS?
We have one of our mailfilters listed (result of several infected desktops bulkmailing). I am trying to get the sever delisted, several emails and several weeks laters, no response. The internet seems...
View ArticleLoad Balancing on our Dev/Test servers
So im helping to setup a dev/test environment at work that i finally got funding for. The environment will be mostly, if not all, on a few ESXi boxes. We have a ServerIron XL that is a load balancing...
View ArticleThinking of switching phone systems, any suggestions?
My predecessor signed a lengthy contract that is just now ending. He was greatly overpaying for our phones and internet for many years. We are a 2 location company, main location has 45 employees,...
View ArticleAnybody using Graphite to graph switches?
I've been looking at Graphite, but I can't find any examples of how one might feed it data. Am I just being dense? Or is Graphite intended to be more of a "roll your own stats" kind of thing, without...
View ArticleI complained to my sysadmin that I couldn't SSH into the new box yet. I might...
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View ArticleDAE refuse jobs solely because they support .mil .dod institutions?
Am I the only one that won't consider jobs that support military or defense related industries? I'm not against people who work for these places, but I do feel like it can be an important distinction...
View ArticleUser CAL for every email account on SBS2003/2008R2+Exch??
An organisation has 11 employees, but 40 email accounts. Some are auto forwarded to external contacts, some are accessed only by webmail, some are not employed by the company but the email account is...
View Articlevsphere reporting tutorials
I am looking to gain more experience in tuning the performance of our esx hosts. I am looking at the performance tab as a starting point but am having trouble deciphering the info contained. Can anyone...
View ArticleOS X Sysadmins
OK, I have very little experience with AppleScript, but I have a problem. We do IT support for a lot of small Doctor's offices, as well as very large medical clinics. Standard MO for all our setups is...
View Articleadd additional cpu to esx after OS install
I went to add an additional cpu to a vm is esx and it gave the warning about how changing the number of virtual processors after the guest OS is installed may make your virtual machine unstable. Is...
View ArticleProgramming a command line utility for configuration, debugging, log parsing,...
This may be better suited in a programming subreddit, but being that it's about configuring servers and I'm not sure which programming subreddit it would be best suited in, I'm just going to leave this...
View ArticleKeep track of those damn IPS
Hello out there, We manage multiple small business offices, for multiple companies. Our standard setup is an SBS acting as a Domain Controller and all the machines joined to the domain, so anyone can...
View ArticleNeed email hosting recommendation for Small Business (Looking to move away...
We are looking to move away from our current email hosting provider Simplicato. Their email service was pretty decent in the past but it is now becoming unacceptable. The spam level is out of control,...
View ArticleRoom Finder in Outlook 2003
So I have a room mailbox set up for users to schedule meetings in a conference room. We are using Exchange 2007. We have a few users testing out Office 2010 but most users are still on Office 2003. In...
View ArticleSafari 5.1 doesn't work properly with Exchange OWA
This is a fun one. Safari 5.1 on Lion does not work properly with Exchange 2003 OWA, and other sites using Basic Authentication. When you perform certain actions (new message, delete message, log off)...
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