Tons of services used daily.

Piled on the ground under a board.

I’m using Picard musicbrainz.

Dude is full of himself.

One extreme defensive move for an enterprise would be to implement full redundancy for anything not hosted on-premises. Redundancy for data protection is relatively straightforward, but having multiple email, supply chain, or e-commerce services is very expensive and disruptive. What are the odds that it would even be needed? Whatever those odds were, they just became much higher.

This is simply dumb. The odds are greater than zero. you must have a disaster plan. It sucks that MS did this but I don’t have much sympathy for anyone that decided to save money by ignoring DR.

Small nas and any size case for compute?

I have a Synology nas. They recently started thumbing their nose at budget/home users and if I had to buy new I’d consider QNap.

I would set up a nas at each location and enable quick connect.

I would set up a redundant drive pool and create volumes to avoid single drive failure.

I would set up the Drive services. This works just like Dropbox or onedrive. I believe there’s a component that allows Drive on one NAS to sync with Drive on another.

I would set up hyperbackup between the NAS and use Tailscale to avoid playing with firewalls, dns, NAT.

Advanced I would set up federated authentication between the nas.

I would set up firewalls and dns.

Clients I would set up the photos mobile app for everyone.

I would set up google/onedrive backups.

I would set up the Drive app on their machines.

Here is what incus supports. If you have multiple hypervisor hosts then you are talking about remote storage.

https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/explanation/storage/

That’s not typical. Starlink is more stable than most. I monitor over 8 locations using multiple different services for internet access and Starlink is about as reliable as mpls.

I don’t see an immediate issue but I do see some general issues.

Unless you own local.com, don’t use it.

While you could use .local as your tld, I wouldn’t do that either. You can buy a domain name for cheap and really that’s the way to go.

Also, reference your FQDN and not your hostname. Don’t expect hosts to fill in the blanks.

People ask me what it’s like to be a moderator

Really? I’m interested but I don’t think I would ask a mod “hey what is it like?”

A long time ago I did some work that involved apple v Samsung and they were pretty strict about even showing a dev device over a voip call.

Exterior window blinds had to be shut, screens set up on the interior so you couldn’t see through the doors, no recording devices, legal representation on-site to verify.

Tech archeology like this is pretty neat.

Keep storage separate or run the nas as a vm on the hypervisor.

Keep it simple. Have an “inside” network and an “outside”

Use a vpn access stuff inside your network. Split tunneling is fine for mobile devices.

Secure services that are exposed from outside to inside. Requiring mfa for all accounts goes a long way here. You can use some sort of proxy service.

Your should manage the firewall, so watch out for Upnp services that try to set up inbound ports automatically.

Port reflector or smtp relay. But the cost approaches the cost of hosted mails service.

If i had to do this myself i would look at a vps or a business-class ISP.

a domain and cert doesn’t equal zero trust network.

Is this webrings again?

The article is also claiming humid areas are good for evaporative cooling, which is incorrect.

Also that above ground runoff is affecting a well is hard to believe. Wells are deep enough that natural filtration removes any sediment.

The whole article is questionable.

I can’t find evidence that datacenters dump water into the ground.

The company commissioned an independent groundwater study to investigate Morris’s concerns. According to the report, its data center operation did “not adversely affect groundwater conditions in the area”.

I’ve lived with well water. You must filter it and test it regularly because it changes. It can also go dry.

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The article is also claiming humid areas are good for evaporative cooling, which is incorrect.

Also that above ground runoff is affecting a well is hard to believe. Wells are deep enough that natural filtration removes any sediment.

The whole article is questionable.