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High availability architecture for a small business
We are a small startup. In our current setup we have a dedicated server in a remote location. Our website and applications are hosted in that server. Website and some applications are in PHP and the ...
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Router/Firewall/WiFi for Medium Sized Network (~30 wired, ~20 wifi) [closed]
I'm looking for product recommendations for a wired router/firewall for a Medium sized company. We have a couple of 48 port GbE switches, so all I need is the router/firewall to connect to our ...
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Cooling Server Closet - No A/C Is Possible
We're moving into a new office in an old building in London (that's England :) and are walling off a 2m x 1.3m area where the router & telephone equipment currently terminates to use as a server ...
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Recommendation for backup plan needed for small business
Caution: This is verbose :)
My Problem:
Client requires a possible rebuild of their current backup plan for local and offsite backup. Tape and online backup are not an option. (Client decision).
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Reusing existing equipment
One of my clients has a small office in a major city that used to be main office for the company.Due to the organizational changes main office was moved to a different country but all equipment and ...
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infrastructure elements in a 50 peoplebranch office [closed]
I am a programmer by profession. I have been asked by a friend of mine to help set up open source based network infrastructure elements for his company's branch office that may have up to 50 people. ...
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Small Business Needs Active Directory
Currently the small business has about 10 computers 1 FreeNas Server and 10 employees.
Until their recent move into a new office they have each had their own computer with local accounts.
However ...
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Selecting a switch for DMZ [closed]
I'm looking to select a switch solely for use in a DMZ. It's a small business network (around 30 users), with mail, VPN, Sharepoint, etc in the DMZ. Nothing too complicated. All connected to a leased ...
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How to setup a small office network with a VPN client and a shared Internet gateway
I manage a small-office network but have very little actual networking knowledge / understanding.
The network has a consumer grade wifi router (Netgear DG834G), several PCs/Macs, some iPads connected ...
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IPv6 in a Small Business
I’ve been tasked to identify a new server and IT equipment for the company I work for (employees <20). I’m looking at getting a SBS 2011 Standard box.
My Question is:
Apart from ensuring that our ...
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Hyper-secure small business/game dev setup
I Want to setup a secure small business for game development, and was thinking of best way to secure content but still allow for people to develop. Of course, since development will take a few years, ...
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Should I merge the Fileserver into our ESXi server?
I was considering migrating the fileserver to the ESXi box and having it use its own datastore and separate drives. Is this a bad idea? With the backups for the ESXi servers on there, it kind of ...
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Should I buy server or build it? [closed]
I need a server for a small company with about 20 people. The server will be used as a fileserver for many MS Office files simultaneously. I tried to look at complete servers but I don't like any of ...
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How to restructure this small IT Department?
Through these last 2 years, my brother and I have been in charge of our family company's "IT department". We can't dedicate all of our time to this, because we are in college and we also have some ...
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Small office network, heavy data transfers
I work on a iOS based software house and we recently moved office. We now have 10 iMacs, a couple of time-machines and 15 between iPhones/iPads.
The requirements we have are the following:
- Wired ...
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Connect and Configure 3 Powerconnect 5424 Switches with existing Powerconnect 2342 Switches
Newbie Alert !!!!! I have zero experience with managed switches and want to make sure i understand how i need to proceed with our upgrade. I have been doing a ton of reasearch and reading trying to ...
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What do I need to know my own small web hosting company?
I want to make my own company for web hosting services. I plan to provide just shared web hosting. In the future I may extend my business to VPS. At first I just want to provide Linux hosting, in the ...
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File sharing for small, distributed, non-technical, non-profit organization?
Problem: I've started volunteering for a small non-profit with fewer than five non-technical Windows users who need to share 20-30GB of files (Office documents, images, PDFs, etc.) amongst themselves ...
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How to tune down the Hyperic built-in postgresql database for a small setup
We are testing out Hyperic 4.5.1 in a quite small environment for now. Currently there are just 1-5 agents and there probably won't be any more than 10-15.
When I run ps ax there are 20(!) postgres ...
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Are Cisco Catalyst 2950 switches ok for small business use?
My current place of employment is a very small print shop with average home networking equipment. I have a spare switch I could give them, but I don't want to hand them a ticking timebomb at the same ...
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Question on backups for a very small business
I work in a very small print shop that has 3 servers and 7 client workstations. Considering the size of the company, I am trying to implement a reasonable backup/recovery plan.
The problem is the ...
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Do I really need WSUS?
When I set up our 2003 SBS server a friend who has been working sysadmin for quite a while told me WSUS was "a must for any size of organization". So I installed it, and have been using it since.
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Setting up a network for 16 users
I've been asked to research into providing networking links for around 16 machines, which will be providing access for a group of small companies which will become part of a co-working space.
I have ...
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When does a domain name infringe trademark? [closed]
I am not sure if this is the right place to post this topic. I can not understand few cases and I believe you guys can point me towards right direction.
Think about the scinario where Mr.X has bought ...
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Setting up a small office network
I'm the de-facto system administrator for a small law office. I'm looking for help to setup the network in a good way. Here's the basic layout/requirements:
Windows based.
The Server: A headless ...
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Replacement/upgrade for RV082 wired router with VPN access
Current Configuration
We have two sites that are connected via a gateway-to-gateway VPN tunnel using Cisco RV082 routers. We also have VPN access using QuickVPN for our Windows employees and PPTP for ...
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adding existing network to another existing network
I'm just curious:
A colleague of mine has acquired a building with a network and wants to add it to the network that four other buildings in a city currently are part of as well.
What are the basic ...
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UTM Hardware Firewall: Sonicwall NSA 4500 vs. Endian Mercury. Which should I purchase? [closed]
I have an organization with about 50 users. We are currently using a Sonicwall Pro 2040, but are looking to upgrade since it is getting old.
I am comparing two UTM solutions–the Sonicwall NSA 4500 ...
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Small Biz Edge Router for ~50 users?
I checked around in some of the previously-answered questions and didn't find anyone with a situation quite like mine, so...
background We're a small business with around 35-50 people connected to ...
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Getting rid of your server in a small business environment
In a small business environment, is it still necessary to have a central server?
Speaking for my own company (a small charity with about 12 employees) we use our server (Windows Server 2003) for the ...
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Suggestions for SOHO networking gear [closed]
I'm a software developer as me day job but have landed a contract position to spec out and install the computer equipment for a small office.
Ease of use (easy installation, low maintenance and good ...
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Are there cloud network drives that let users lock files or mark them as “in use”?
Having spent several hours reading about the features and limitations of services like DropBox and Jungle Disk and the hundreds of competitors they seem to have (as though everyone with an AWS account ...
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How could one archive all emails sent from employees?
My client runs a small business. This business has a small number of employees. They are currently hosted through GoDaddy for web and email.
For legal reasons the client would like to archive emails ...
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Microsoft Exchange 2007, Small Business Server, Delegate Accounts
We have exchange running on one of our server here and there are 2 users connecting via outlook. The company has a generic Info@ email account and all users need to see this. I know I cant add a ...
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pfSense Firewall or Linksys/Cisco router for small offices
I'm about to start switching some networks around for multiple small offices. Each office has about 10 to 15 users and 10 to 15 computers. Each office has a spread of generic routers and access ...
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Is there a small business router that shows bandwidth usage graphs in the admin panel?
I support a large number of public libraries that are having their networks upgraded in response to a grant application. These libraries are generally home to between 6-15 computers and have little ...
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Which free RDBMS is best for small in-house development?
I am the sole sysadmin for a small firm of about 50 people, and I have been asked to develop an in-house application for tracking job completion and providing reports based on that data. I'm planning ...
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5 external static IPs, easy and cost-effective way to use them?
I'm moving from one ISP, who provided a managed router that took care of things like port forwarding IPs, to a new one that does not.
So, currently I have a single, inexpensive Linksys router ...
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What should be known to integrate an IP-KVM in a small business?
What should be known to integrate an IP-KVM in a small business that is Windows server based? Also with this how should a person with little knowledge of IP-KVM hardware differentiate the inordinate ...
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Setting up a Develop, Acceptance, Production for a single person business
My wife is a graphic designer who is starting her own business in the field of designing templates for wordpress other php based systems. I'm going to setup the servers (VMware with CentOS) so she has ...
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First steps in scaling servers up for a Ruby on Rails application
I'm running a RoR web application on a dual core AMD Athlon 4450e server w/ 8GB RAM and Ubuntu.
It's doing alright, getting spikes up to 320 dynamic requests per minute, it's also handling all the ...
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Best way to connect multiple switches together
We currently have five 24 port 3com unmanaged switches. Four of them are 100Mb switches with no gigabit port (MDI Uplink port is 100Mb). The fifth is a full gigabit switch which we use for all of ...
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Small Business Solution
Looking for ideas / thoughts on a small office setups.
Users : 25
Remote users ; 5
Remote office : 3
I'm a big fan of small business server but looking for mail archiving and NAS storage solutions ...
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to demote or not to demote AD
I’m trying to help out someone who has windows server 2003 small business edition running a domain with 2 workstations. In my view a domain controller for 2 workstations is much more of a hassle than ...
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Firewall Solutions for a Small Business
I found this Cisco solution (Cisco ASA 5505 Firewall Edition Bundle - security appliance) and I also want to know what is the diffrence between this and the one following;
Cisco ASA 5510 Appliance
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Can I host my web application in Cloud?
I have made a small web application created in J2EE which i want to develop as a "business".
Can i host it in one of the cloud services ?
Please do advice me as well on this issue. Will the cloud ...
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Computer Service Management Software
If you run a computer service / IT consulting shop, what software (web-based or desktop based) do you use to run the business? I'm looking for stuff that keeps a history of client issues for logging ...
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Small business utilizing virtualization
We're a small business (about 10 people) looking into a virtualization setup mainly for disaster recovery reasons, but also for backup and possibly some server consolidation capability in the future. ...
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VirtualBox - use in small office and backing up
I run a small office consisting of a 8 man development team and a couple of managers. We're thinking of moving to a hardware setup whereby we have 1 single powerful server running several VirtualBox ...
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High server availabilty for a small business
After having a bit of scare with a server that wouldn't come up one morning, the higher ups have decided that the business needs a high availability / fail over setup.
We have 5 main servers (4x ...
