NefMoto

I love this place to bits. So many folk willing to contribute and I feel like a bit of a leech at times. With that said, I'd be gutted if this place was ever to go.

If costs for hosting become prohibitive or ever threaten this places existence, please get in touch. I'm willing to host this place for free. Gigabit connected, dedicated VM. As much storage as you need.

Suck up!

Lol.


 I'd have a gooooood firewall in-place if it was me hosting something like this.

Why? Just don't use IIS. Problem solved.

17 years in IT, i'd be having snort etc and DMZ's and other stuff lol.   I'd be surprised if it wasn't hit once a day with a hack attempt.

Been running public linux/bsd servers for as long. Never had an issue that a firewall would have prevented.

Same, but I've been on the end of a denial of service a few times which isn't nice.  It depends how valuable to the business their IT is and without stuff like IDS some corporate types would be in trouble.

Ditto, but again, nothing a firewall would have prevented


Depends on the complexity of the network you're trying to protect. If it is a cluster of public facing servers with a lot of shit running between them, then yes, DMZ. If protecting a large network of PCs (generally owned by morons), not having a firewall is suicide.

But a single outward facing web server? Meh. Not much a firewall can protect.

In that specific case I'd use Apache reverse proxy.

Or nginx etc...

Yeah, the Apache one works perfecto inc Outlook over RPC lol

I like that ngnix never used it problem with Apache is config, default iirc allows crackable SSL versions

Be under absolutely no illusion that this would be hosted alongside anything mission critical. I work for a large data center operator and I've got resource coming out of my ears. Our "test" platforms are growing larger than a lot of our customers production environments and I don't mind donating something to the cause :)

I don't think anyone was questioning pal I was simply musing with nye.

Do you enjoy the data centre work?   Everyone visit is like wow with the gems outside inside nice for clients but where the work gets done meh.   Don't take that is derogatory please it's just my opinion.   Which level dc is it?

Not at all, was just extrapolating a little for the purposes of padding the offer with a bit more info :) We own 9 DCs in the UK, the majority of which are tier 3, two are being upgraded to tier 4.

I enjoy the work because I don't work in the NOC, I'm a solutions architect and sit primarily in pre-sales, but straddle support for the larger platforms.

Everyone has their own experience of DCs, I've got quite a diverse exposure as I've been about a few through various roles and I prefer to steer clear of the data halls. They are very clinical environments. Call center like, but without the staff, if you know what I mean.

Pulsant?

Nope. Not until we buy them anyway  ;D

Erm I need to know about that and its time sensitive for this Tuesday pulsating have 10 and a huge fibre junction

Did they not sell their capital in 2011  iirc for like 200 million

Any acquisition activity is early days yet. There's a bun fight about shares/cash/etc, but some of our current backers have fingers in the Pulsant pie that will help nudge it in the right direction. 


Not sure who you're thinking of, but we're still wholly owned albeit with strong VC backing.

I was on about pulsant re capital.    Please don't say onyx?

Ed Renwick will be getting a call from me ta for the heads up Graham I need 5 years of stability with a meeting on TueSDAY waa

It was intrigued by the Power supply room the most, then the meeting room relics cabinet next lol.  Wow 28k modem lol, wish I had my old Winchester to give to them.

I seen a supposed quantum computer there looked like a chuffin cylon.  Rest were like 14u dog cages in the room I was shown, there is another.  Also People still use dlt tapes WTF.

My sub-project is a collation one so not very complex...., the rest of it is relocating 130 staff, pc, phones, VM's etc to new new building with SIP trunking VM mitel 100/100 fibre, key cards ,cameras, Server HW, firewalls, physical stock move, it's going to wound me!!!!!