Saturday, 27 September 2014

Modern Expiry

I'm going from aqueducts that last thousands of years to servers that only last three or four years.  Even only 20 yar ago if you bought a server it would still be going 20 yar later.  We installed a server made in 2009 upgraded it to SBS2011 and thought we have a good run for at least 10 years. Not so it seems. Our server is being rebooted every Sunday to get it through the week.  Also the pressure is on to move from owning your own machine to renting the services you need via the cloud. There are no more SBS servers for small business! If you want a server then join the big boys and get an entry level Foundation server for around 10 Grand.   The Computer Nerds (Am I one of those?) are pushing you onto Office365 so for the bells and whistles at $25 per head per month means we are up for $3000 per year which is more than the cost of our server five yar ago. We are going to take the first step and install a NAS device which means at least our data will not be in the cloud.

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