Their procurement policy is basically “has it been recommended? Is anyone else using it? Is it cheap?”

I work in public sector.

Market to tax funded institutions. If you can market “self hosted” as cheaper and easier than mother solutions you’ll have guaranteed clients for a long time.

Ubuntu is a good idea to get the new one of the best ones in the world and the other one is a little bit of a lot of people who are like a lot of people who are like that and I don’t know what to do with it but I don’t know what to do with it but I think they are going to be a good day to go to the store.

Smells like toast.

This is the way.

These days id prefer a developer produce negative lines of code without breaking anything.

Hahaha. I purposely got a jibberish .xyz domain. If they ever ask for more than the $9.99 a year they can pound sand.

It is absolutely a dangerous life lol.

I keep everything backed up. It was a temporary purchase that I fully did not expect to last 5 years.

It’s literally been a clicker since day 1 lol.

No failures. No slow reads. Just a zombie beast.

I’m using a western digital refurb HDD. 14TB.

running 24/7 pretty much since the pandemic. It’s basically my media server.

They’ve been my go-to rec for like 6 years 😢

Their support is top tier, which is important when it’s important. But this complicates things. I’ll have to take a close look at the competition these days.

Damn. I always though they were one of the good ones.

Don’t get me started 😂

I worked for a company that had over 300 clients with sites with them. They don’t give a fuck. We literally moved over 300 accounts to another provider over their shit support/sales teams. Domain, hosting everything.

They. Don’t. Care.

They took down services by trying things that aren’t possible on their platform (DMARC for subdomain). Totally unacceptable. How tf do they not know that they can’t accommodate my request without damaging my infrastructure?! Other providers can do DMARC for subdimains?!? WTF?!?!

If they’re your provider and you’re in trouble, contact Newfold Digital support first. That’s their parents company. They tend to route you better than Bluehost does. Shit Bluehost chat support has been broken for like 3 months lmao.

No problem!

The Windows VM is running in virtualBox. There’s a few options there, but virtualBox is easy. All you do is download a windows 10 install iso from microsoft, and then build the VM with virtualBox on your Linux system. That’s pretty much it. Windows install will ask for your key. I forget they place I got mine, I’m sure the sketchy markets are sketchy, so be careful/prudent.

I just have a beast of a machine that has more RAM than I know what to do with.

I have a VM of windows 10 that runs in my 4th monitor at all times, it’s got 32 gigs of RAM and 2tb of storage. I have another VM that I only run for rendering which uses my whole GPU as passthru. (Having just the 1 windows VM do that interferes with gaming 😁).

I use my NAS for project folders and both VMs have access to the NAS.

At this point I just have a windows 10 VM for using Adobe. Got a key for like $7 on some sketchy site.

And I was actually kinda liking windows 11, but it’s just clear where this is headed.

Name cheap has always been my favorite registrar to work with.

Great service, responsive support, normal prices. 🤷‍♂️

It’s not hard to not piss off your clients in their industry but somehow GoDaddy and BlueHost tend to rank high on everyone’s shit list.