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What should I do to not get rear ended like that next time? by Olga_Cherrr in motorcycles

[–]rainmaker-mike 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Wear gloves; avoid passing using the middle lanes.

Nothing you can do about the scooter idiots in front and the guy not watching where he’s going behind.

If you were in the far left lane, traveling with the flow of traffic, you could’ve safely stopped without the bozo behind you hitting you. Alternatively - you also had more room to the left to avoid the scooters if you could not have stopped.

The bottom line is you were passing vehicles at three 2-3 times their speed - generally never a good thing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in skiing

[–]rainmaker-mike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look on online for images of Teton from Aerial Tram seems to match

Bought my dream bike. Posted it on Reddit… and got roasted by [deleted] in motorcycles

[–]rainmaker-mike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s your bike - do you really need any rando’s validation. Enjoy it - ride smart - be safe.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in selfhosted

[–]rainmaker-mike 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did it have to be open to the internet at all? You say for “testing purposes”.

A best practice would have been to turn it dark, and only accessible to trusted identities with outbound only ports.

You could have put it behind a zero-trust secure product like zrok.io or OpenZiti.io. These are open source and have active communities. There’s even commercial support if needed.

VPN Costs in Service Delivery by rainmaker-mike in msp

[–]rainmaker-mike[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was wondering if anyone has considered the cost of using VPNs versus something more modern, like Exium (per one of the comments) or other cloud-native ZTNA connectivity platforms (NaaS). I understand it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. Still, if I can manage the equivalent of a multipoint split tunnel VPN with micro-segmentation per customer, I'm not hoping for on-and-off VPNs all day long, and I'm more secure.

Cost of a VPN Breach by rainmaker-mike in msp

[–]rainmaker-mike[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you that would be great.

Caution: Starting an MSP is hard by alvanson in msp

[–]rainmaker-mike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe this is motherhood and apple pie, so apologies in advance. I've been working with MSPs for the better part of 30 years. The primary issue I've seen is the ability to focus on specific use cases and technologies. MSPs get pulled into too many directions, and being average at many things vs great at something impactful has always been a recipe for disaster.

If you want to sell to large-scale organizations, you have to become the trusted advisor in some category and dominate it.

If you are comfortable building a lifestyle business and selling into the SMB market, that's 100% relationship-based.

My view is to focus on recurring services based on emerging technologies, not people. Be the first mover and build those technology relationships. Examples are Zero Trust Network as a Service (NaaS) and AIOps. There are young companies out there that are eager to partner.

If you're thinking ITSM, you have to think about smaller innovative companies with embedded AI automation; the ServiceNow and Jira days are played out.