Prove_your_argument

I work in IT and when I want to find out what something has, I literally pull up the manual page for the motherboard. It tells you what it is. Sometimes a specifications page for a part is good enough. LLMs like perplexity can get you search results where you can then read for yourself what the actual thing does…

Supermicro X11SSV is probably not a motherboard, I see X11SSV-Q, X11SSV-Q-O, and other variants

The lenovo chromebook should have a specific model too. Search for that.

I have a multi wan SMB router. 945mbit throughput. $60 new.

TPLink omada or Ubiquiti tier stuff is all you really need for small business. The redundant ISP connections cost way more, but it’s still a tiny cost per month for something that can get the job done in a pinch like a hotspot.

Battery backups are only useful if you have a generator to take over the utility load imo. Not a common thing in small business unless you’re leasing somewhere with generators provided for the whole building.

Redundant servers are not that hard to have. Just need proxmox. It’s not as intuitive as old vmware but it’s more than enough for a SMB. Some kind of storage shelf and three little servers gets you a ton of redundancy. If a tiny budget is necessary and small downtime is fine you really only need a couple of hosts that are beefy enough to run everything you need on each.

m365 has done so much damage to computing. Same deal with google’s equivalent.

Reducing the valid time will not solve the underlying problems they are trying to fix.

We’re just gonna see more and more mass outages over time especially if this reduces to an uncomfortably short duration. Imagine what might happen if a mass crowdflare/microsoft/amazon/google outage that goes on perhaps a week or two? what if the CAs we use go down longer than the expiration period?

Sure, the current goal is to move everybody over to ACME but now that’s yet another piece of software that has to be monitored, may have flaws or exploits, may not always run as expected… and has dozens of variations with dependencies and libraries that will have various levels of security of their own and potentially more vulnerabilities.

I don’t have the solution, I just don’t see this as fixing anything. What’s the replacement?