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Location: somerville mass | please! just buy new servers man! best buy! good god! |
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Location: jersey | Fearless Leader has a lot on his plate.
If it's that simple, you could always buy them for the good of the community and send them to Dave. |
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Location: WHEELING,WV.>>>HOME OF WWVA | new server will be coming but even a part time forwardlook is better than NO forwardlook . Mr Dave has been good to us for yrs. and now needs our patience ---------------------------------------------later |
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Never ceases to amaze me....somebody provides a FREE service and people bitch about it. |
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Location: Branson, MO | "Never ceases to amaze me....somebody provides a FREE service and people bitch about it."
Amen to that! Patience is a virtue - sooner or later this "bug" will be forgotten history.
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA | moparsteve - 2015-07-31 10:09 AM please! just buy new servers man! best buy! good god! Wow. Words fail me. Ok. So... I have spent about $4k this month on server equipment & a new UPS. (And they don't sell this stuff at Best Buy, by the way). We still might need an HP DL360 G8 or G9, Dual CPU, 64GB, (2) RAID1 SAS HD, to replace the failing G6 firewall if you want to price that out. Am I reading your post correctly, moparsteve -- that you are making a generous offer to purchase this for us?  -Dave |
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Location: Branson, MO | Thanks Dave,
Not being a "computer whiz", I can't understand much of what all went wrong but sounds like once the firewall is ironed out, all will be back on track. Yee haw!
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Location: Perth Australia | Hats off to you Dave
I like to think of myself as a fairly technical person, but I have to admit that I have no idea what your talking about
Thank you for the efforts you put into this for us
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Location: Newark, Texas (Fort Worth) | I hope every one out there knows if you do purchase on Epay through this web site, that a portion of the fees goes to us to keep this incredible mopar site going! Marc.
http://www.forwardlook.net/forums/ebay.asp
Bidding on items through these links helps support the Forward Look Network web site!
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| Heh Dave, let me know if your tired of running forward look(or your wallet is). I can take it over, I have spare server capacity. |
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Location: Upper East Tennessee | Dave, I think the frustration only shows how much folks love and depend on this site. It's awesome! I'd gladly contribute funds to help out. |
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Location: Layton, Utah | Maybe if there was dues to join ? I'm all for that. This is a great site and all of you guys and gals are awesome. DeSoto lives !!! |
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Location: London, England | How about moving to a hosted server on DigitalOcean or somewhere? AWS is a bit expensive... |
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Location: somerville mass | sorry 4000 wow that new stuff mmmm prob 10000 OUCH! |
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Location: London, England | Just saw the announcement about the firewall failure. I'm using ipcop in VM on ESX and it works really well, so you may want to think about abandoning firewall hardware! |
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Location: Pittsburgh, PA | I actually have abandoned HW FWs for the most part. The old one was TMG, and FWIW it was great. I have been looking at a Sophos UTM appliance as a VM as well, but haven't tried it out yet. I'm comfortable with Fortigates, Netscreens, Watchguards, ASAs and TMG so I'd rather pay a little to avoid a new learning curve.
The kicker is that I can find nothing wrong with the current unit. It passes every test I can throw at it except it refuse to communicate with other domain members (with very few logged errors, BTW). I am planning to just rebuild it to see if it was some kind of damage/corruption due to the UPS fault. FWIW, I have been really happy with TMG and have been holding out for a more similar replacement. A new DL360 can be re-purposed into whatever though, so I will go down that route if needed. A FW has to run on some sort of HW though, and having at least two physical servers is necessary for redundancy. We just happened to hit the 'perfect storm' of the wrong things being administratively out of commission during and unusual failure event all while I was 3000 miles away. Last time I ran the numbers we were at four nines for uptime over the last 5 years. Not bad for a home datacenter. This last outage shoots any chance of those numbers for a while.
I have looked at hosted solutions, but it's really not a huge cost savings overall when looking at the amount of storage, bandwidth, etc. There are some advantages though, but I have not been all that impressed with performance or reliability at those I have used at work. |
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Thank you for all your hard work and effort in keeping this site going. We all appreciate it!!!! Pictures are now posting.
Thanks again, Dave |
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Location: York County, PA | Dave, I have no idea what you are talking about. I just reap the benefits of your hard work, THANK YOU very much.
Catch ya later.
Thank a vet.
PM sent
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servers again!
