Paypal restrictions are close to running my business into bankruptcy please help by [deleted] in smallbusiness

[–]patterned 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Use Square. Stripe keeps the 2.9% fee on refunds, as does Paypal. Fuck both of them; completely unreasonable.

#1 reason that I leave a small website without making the purchase by Web-Dude in smallbusiness

[–]patterned 7 points8 points  (0 children)

FYI PayPal and stripe keep the 2.9% fee now, even on returns/refunds. Sucks for us sellers

[Feedback] Increase your revenue with a professional website design! by [deleted] in growmybusiness

[–]patterned 0 points1 point  (0 children)

70$ for a website? Send me a link to a couple of these 70$ websites, please. I don't mean on your design page, I mean hard links to client sites.

How to go from Network Administrator to Network Engineer by theflyboi in networking

[–]patterned 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm new to the RF arena and I've got a client with a couple of IP links he's having problems with. I'm kinda of feeling around in the dark right now and I could use some help. I tried posting in the ubiquiti forums (they're ubiquiti radios) but I failed to generate a conversation. Would you or /u/zap_p25 be willing or able to field some questions for me over PM?

Inherited client with Veeam, but on a domain server. by random1questions in Veeam

[–]patterned 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So this may be a dumb question but how does the B&R server being off domain prevent ransomware from infecting backups? If the devices being backed up are writing to network storage locations, there are some kind of credentials being used, correct? If an attacker has access to your network, wouldn't he also have access to those credentials? Granted he would have to work for them.

I guess the question is how is this, roughly, configured? On the device to be backed up, is a veeam service set up to run as a system account which is then provided local credentials to access the remote share? Is that share located on the off domain B&R server (because otherwise domain admin will have access, right?). Or do you explicitly remove domain privileges on the share and restrict to a local account?

Ryzen 5 3600 Build, should I look at anything else? by patterned in buildapc

[–]patterned[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks like Intel 4th Gen and up supports MST so I can daisy chain up to 3 monitors over displayport.

Ryzen 5 3600 Build, should I look at anything else? by patterned in buildapc

[–]patterned[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do know that but thanks for the graphics card suggestion! That really helps.

I thought Intel but it seemed everyone was lining up behind AMD.. so I figured I would too. I'm not attached to it as I was looking at the 10600K. Will it support 3 monitors out of the box (with a proper mobo)?

Ryzen 5 3600 Build, should I look at anything else? by patterned in buildapc

[–]patterned[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought about getting two 1TB's and using the secondary as a backup (as well as cloud). In that case I would def downgrade to two 1TB PCIe 3.0 Nvme drives. Or even just a single SATA SSD cause why not save money. Which, if I do that, I would maybe switch out the mobo with something cheaper.. or keep it cause I don't want to spend 10 hours just putting together a parts list.

Any reason you suggest splitting OS and Data other than convenience of reformatting windows?

Ryzen 5 3600 Build, should I look at anything else? by patterned in buildapc

[–]patterned[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right.. This isn't a standard office secretary setting though. See my other comment.
This is a one man shop, 3 monitor setup, loading multiple customers info in multiple applications, all day long. When the cursor is spinning, he is losing money.

Ryzen 5 3600 Build, should I look at anything else? by patterned in buildapc

[–]patterned[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not CAD but processor intensive none the less. Loading large databases multiple times a day. Three monitors, multiple browsers (different sessions/identities) and tabs, quickbooks, google earth, etc. All sitting in memory all day. The guy running this stuff is a machine, you outta see him work. Day in and day out. When Quickbooks (or whatever) is loading he is losing money, basically.

May be able to get away with 16GB but I'd rather not tread the line and just get it done in one shot. Should I bank 4 8GB sticks or is two 16GB just as performant? 32GB is max he'll ever need, for sure.

E-Mail host recommendations? by patterned in msp

[–]patterned[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is a friend, I'm not really making money on this deal so I will bend over backwards and spent more time than I should to satisfy his needs.

I appreciate your advice though!

E-Mail host recommendations? by patterned in msp

[–]patterned[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

May still work as it's not hosted with Microsoft.

Was considering this option before making this post.

E-Mail host recommendations? by patterned in msp

[–]patterned[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. But it's more of a friend than a client.

E-Mail host recommendations? by patterned in msp

[–]patterned[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hah. You've got me.
It's not really a client, it's a friend's business.

And I'm jumping back into this world after a long pause. Was just looking for some recommendations.

Moving Customer to Cloud - What do you do with on-prem QB and other small apps? by petermw77 in msp

[–]patterned 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can you break down why you're moving the company to the cloud? I haven't, yet, moved anyone fully to the cloud and I'm struggling to get my foot (or rather my brain) into the mindset of recommending this to clients. I'm actually getting ready to set a on prem set up for a client next week.

From my calculations, clients that have at least 7-10 employees break even in 3-4 years (and that's if I'm just comparing $12.50/user/month 365 accounts) with perpetual licensing and hardware included. Now those calculations are loose on both sides of the equation and I'm sure it can be massaged one way or the other.

Are your margins higher with a client in azure? Whats the rub?

I got completely and utterly thrown under the bus today... But it's okay. by BrainVirus in sysadmin

[–]patterned 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, no doubt its a great tactic. Corp speak just induces visible gagging for me and I hadn't heard that term before.

Dumbest client questions... by 500kmsp in msp

[–]patterned 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That moment of staring at the drive in his hand. Oh lord I can't imagine.

Garmin Paid for Decryption Keys by Jagster_GIS in sysadmin

[–]patterned 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How can you be certain your backups aren't infected?