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Recently took over managing DNS for my corporation. We have a domain name that is supposed to redirect to an ugly URL address. I can confirm the ugly URL address works just fine when I type it in, but when I type in the nice domain name I get an ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT. To make matters more confusing, I found this great website: https://redirectchecker.io and everything worked as expected. So now I don't know if a recent browser update could be the culprit, but I am having the issue in Brave and Edge. The nice domain name is hosted on eNom if that matters, and the ugly URL is what our webhost provided us. On eNom the Host record is pretty straightforward: Hostname: www (there's another host record for @ with the exact same info) Record Type: URL Redirect Address: <https://ugly url address> Any ideas on what could be the problem? It was working before, but we noticed it stopped working today. submitted by /u/dude_named_will [link] [comments]

We're about to spend a large amount of money on new GPU servers, we have reasonable pricing from the vendor we've had the best experiences with, and now our procurement person is telling us that we need 3 "competing" quotes and we're obligated to go with the cheapest one. That doesn't make sense to me for so many reasons. We currently have 4 GPU servers from vendor D and 1 GPU server from vendor H. The vendor H server is the only one with issues, and their "support" wasted literally days of my time before ultimately refusing to replace a clearly defective GPU. I think it's entirely reasonable to avoid vendor H from now on, but we could literally be forced to go with them over the vendor we actually want. I wouldn't be surprised if vendor H can offer lower prices when they refuse to replace defective parts. That's the practical side of things, but it also doesn't make any sense conceptually. The requirement assumes I can't be trusted to make purchasing decisions in the best interest of my employer, yet at the same time trusts me not to sabotage the other quotes. I could misrepresent the requirements so they pick hardware that's more expensive. I could be a huge jerk to all the approved vendors so they refuse to work with us, and then fill out another form saying that vendor D is the only one we're able to use. It doesn't even guarantee the best pricing, either. I'm going to other approved vendors first and they're just sourcing the parts from vendor D and vendor H anyway. I asked the procurement person if that's ok, and they said yes. If the concern is that vendor D is ripping us off, they could just give the reseller a higher price than they're charging directly to make the direct quote cheaper anyway. I'm convinced that whoever made that policy assumes that servers are just big MacBooks. submitted by /u/BemusedBengal [link] [comments]

A couple of months back we have placed order for a Dell server with blackwell GPU via a partner and were promised delivery by the end of August. Now partner came back saying the Dell production team has rejected the order saying the confguration is invalid. They are asking us to buy server with lower clock speed CPU other specifications will remain pretty much the same The biggest surprise is they want us to pay a big additional amount for this. Partner tells us that the configuration was validated and certified by Dell engineering teams in US and Korea. This is in USA, what are my options? submitted by /u/No_Category2170 [link] [comments]

Man this is crazy, this is near to capabilities of the frontier models and recently on X see few of them pushing kimi k3 to 1bit and it has a capabilities to run locally with 78% accuracy. It seems on Breakthrough on the AI NPU will end the OpenAi and Claude 🤣😂😂😂

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For the last few weeks, I've been speccing three servers for a hypervisor migration away from VMware. These will be datacentre nodes so they are very dense spec wise because the new hypervisor is per node pricing, so it makes more sense for us. Just got the quotes back. Five hundred and twenty thousand dollars for three servers. $520,000 !!!. Absolutely flabbergasted and I have to look my boss in the eye tomorrow and ask for that money. Anyone got a Dick Turpin hat? submitted by /u/LookAtThatMonkey [link] [comments]

I’m going into college and I really love technology related stuff. I love problem solving and creating solutions, but I also like hands on things. So I was wondering if like you guys think it’s a good idea to go into. I also see like a lot of people seeming stressed on this Reddit page so is it really stressful? I just wanna know what I’m getting into before actually trying to get up there. Thank you for taking your time reading this, any advice helps. submitted by /u/zaddyaddy9 [link] [comments]

Hello Title, I have a svc that needs bare metal with high core count, min 8, 16 threads and either iGPU or an older GPU also works like RX 580 but 8GB VRam minimum My current setup ranges from 5700G hosts to i5 13500 to Ryzen 5950x with RX 580 I need 64GB Ram minimum and am willing to pay ~$50~$100 depending on the server Any recommendations? This is a infra heavy service the one I'm building so whoever becomes a partner I will for sure need more and more dedicated servers as the service grows. Best

Maybe it’s because I haven’t taken a proper vacation in lord know long. I don’t handle k8s, but I work with a containerized environment and pipelines etc. But with the speed everything seems to be going, and the constant push, I feel overwhelmed and just want nothing to do with technology…maybe I just need to step away for a bit…how are you guys dealing with this. Talking to other devops folks, looks like they too are drinking from the fire hydrant submitted by /u/hiamanon1 [link] [comments]

I'm only reaching out here because when I posted this in r/claude , it was removed with zero explanation. If there is a better place to ask, I'm all ears. Follows is my what I posted: I'm the IT Manager of a small technology company. Management and our dev team are jumping all in on AI and, specifically, Claude - far, far faster than I, as the guy responsible for our company's security, am comfortable with. A couple of caveats: I am very much aware of how helpful AI can be and what a boost in both productivity and effieciency it can be. I have a few pet projects I've used Claude for on a personal level that has been both impressive and, to an extent, scary. As the IT Manager, one of my primary jobs is to ensure the security of the company - our data, our infrastructure, etc. However, my goal has always been to try and make sure that doesn't impede my users' ability to do their jobs as much as I possibly can, trying to find that balance that allows me to maintain a secure environment but let them get their job done. I know that there is no stopping this train. I've expressed my concerns and while they were acknowledged, the gist was that we're moving forward. Part of my concerns is simply the unknown. I'm not overly familiar with Claude outside of the few small things I've dinked around with. Not knowing exactly how it would interact with our systems from a security standpoint puts me on a more cautious posture. What I'm looking for are some formal classes in admin or other areas that can help me better understand. If you've been in this position or can recommend some courses, I'd greatly apprecaite it. Thanks. submitted by /u/g-rocklobster [link] [comments]

https://youtu.be/I7IHInNJZvE?is=wUbcXXyQtqkbQIPL Very funny Scetch by Kai Lentit. Kinda scary accurate how life as a Sysadmin is. Apparentely every Sysadmin has a similar life and look. submitted by /u/Rare-Plane-7319 [link] [comments]

So far, I have been using Hexnode, but it has become very expensive. I'm currently paying about $500 per month for 95 devices. While they offer a lot of features, I only use it for: 1)Remotely wiping devices. 2) Creating a custom configuration with 2–3 restrictions. 3) Setting a custom wallpaper. Is there another alternative I could use, or could I even self-host or vibe-code something similar? Thank you. submitted by /u/uwualex [link] [comments]

Been out of work for a while now and am transitioning from a trade to it have been studying my CCNA since April also studying az104 will be taking both within the next 8 weeks, I have a fairly good base knowledge of tech from my home lab that I’ve been running with HA proxmox cluster, issue is the job interview I have tomorrow is for a junior sysadmin role with a heavy focus on windows server, I have zero experience with windows server I’ve always used Linux and have no real world production experience with AD or anyother cloud concepts really. Want to know if I’m in over my head or if I’m just having some self doubts. Advice would be appreciated submitted by /u/SnooApples7692 [link] [comments]

A key part of our jobs is making sure we explain technical problems to non-technical people in an easy-to-understand manner. I absolutely SUCK at this. Sure, I could caveman speak it, but then it leaves out a lot of important details and is not professional. But then I add too many details and the person gets lost and loses interest before I even get to making it make sense. What is the middle ground? What do you recommend? Heres an example of a ticket response I wrote to an end user: (Now, this end user is more technically inclined, his position is Technology Manager at this client site. I would NOT send this to, lets say, Sharon in Marketing) but I feel like its just too much. But how do I explain it without going so far? Let me know your tips and tricks and if theres any good resources for in-depth non-technical writing 😂 Hi User, So what ive concluded with this printer issue is that: (this may seem technical, just bear with me, i swear I will explain it simpler further down) - The main subnet is: 10.100.100.0/22 - Typical subnets are /24 - So all that means is that in a /24, the subnet would go from 10.100.100.1 - 10.100.100.254 and stop there. But because its a /22, that carries over to 10.100.101.x and 10.100.102.x and maybe even into 10.100.103.x - The problem is: The printer, when i reset it last fall, I manually assigned it to 10.100.100.0/24, so that means, your computer, and anyone else outside of the 10.100.100.0 subnet will not be able to reach it. For example, if your computer IP is 10.100.101.55, it wont reach the printer because its outside of the 10.100.100.0 subnet and the printer is at 10.100.100.8 or something. I just didnt realize the subnet was a /22 instead of a /24. So to resolve this, all I need to do is remote into the printer and fix the subnet from a /24 to a /22, and that will (hopefully) resolve the printing issues. The next problem is.....the admin credentials we have saved for that printer are not working. So i cant even get into the printer to adjust the network setting. So thats where I stand with this, I need to either find the credentials for it or figure out how to factory reset it without logging into it. edit: fixed quote formatting submitted by /u/AdvancedDrink8920 [link] [comments]

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We are currently with Apple but I am switching to a android device. And trying to convince my with to switch too. I was looking at family cloud for Google. Both my wife and I have Google Photos and Gmail. She has been complaining she is out of space or cloud for Google. If we switch to the family plan I was reading online that once family members use 15gb they will go into the family shared plan. Do that mean my wife and or kids could see what is on my cloud and or can I see what is there cloud ? ie Google Photos, Google Drive ? submitted by /u/Both_Faithlessness_3 [link] [comments]

Hello Everyone! We've been working hard on a new Anti Spam system for all CraneMail, Shared, & Reseller customers! Big focus on this project is to build an intuitive portal, as SpamExperts is... uniquely designed. As reported by ~almost everyone thats beta testing, Our 'out of the box' experience is as good, or better than, SpamExperts. To quote one beta tester: "I feel completely confident letting my clients use this. That hasn't been the case while they've been on SpamExperts." We'd love to invite everyone, even those that aren't a NameCrane customer, to take part in the beta. You can PM me your domain, the primary user/admin, and where to route it to, and you'll be off to the races. If you have multiple domains you can request I set up a reseller account for you as well. We aren't selling this as standalone filtering or as a SAAS product, but users that contribute useful feedback (UX, filtering performance, bugs, etc) will be allowed to keep their filtering, even if its pointing externally. Note: You'll need to whitelist our relays on your mailserver otherwise they may block us and cause issues. We're after brutally honest feedback! Features Here's a quick run of the features: Ability to add rules that match all parts of an email, with basic matches, or advanced regexp patterns. Ability to poke/tweak scoring on emails. Useful when you can't outright block a domain/sender, but want to nudge things. Create quarantine reports that include whatever you want, when you want, for whomever you want. Create domain digest report that is emailed on a schedule that includes all emails sent to any user. -- This is very useful for company/msp postmasters that need greater monitoring. Ability to restrict which languages you'll accept emails in. Ability to restrict emails by content/topic (politics, social media, finances, etc). Full quarantine system allowing for domain users to release/train/whitelist emails without logging in. Filter out attachments by extension (we include our own defaults, but you can quickly change that). While our own anti-spam BAYES is quite good, as you train emails as HAM/SPAM in the system, it'll train a personalized BAYES database for your domain, and in time (once you train 50 ham & 50 spam), the personalized BAYES will handle your scoring. This can help a lot with non english languages, or even just to train the system on what you perceive as ham/spam. A self-hosted LLM is also used for scoring spam, language detection, & content classifying. Topic filtering got a major upgrade this week greatly improving accuracy, especially in non english languages. We'd still count this as 'in beta' though as we're needing more samples from under represented languages. Reseller Branding & Management Reseller branding is another big feature SpamExperts lacks. Our portal allows resellers to assign their own MX hostnames to rebrand our mx?.mxfilter.net ones, change colours, and brand pages with their logo. SSO login emails, landing pages, quarantine reports, digests, get your brand colours, labels, & logo. A centralize dashboard lets you see all of your domains inbound/outbound, top senders & destinations, etc. Reseller Abilities Resellers can add filters (allow, deny, regexp, score tweaks, etc) which are then processed for every domain in their account. Resellers are also able to set 'domain defaults' for filtering, attachment blocks, & language restrictions. This is extremely useful for MSP's where each onboard involves loading up the same rulesets over and over. Now, just set it once at the reseller level, and all domains automatically benefit. You can check https://mxfilter.namecrane.org to see how the branding looks. There is multiple pre-set palettes (tailwindcss) available that should cover most companies. Let us know if you're wanting us to add others! Check them out here: https://files.namecrane.com/franexperts/K5AEFVD.png https://files.namecrane.com/franexperts/8YJBsoC.png https://files.namecrane.com/franexperts/ElNsGVr.png https://files.namecrane.com/franexperts/e8SFa8n.png Multiple regions We've added additional regions for filtering redundancy: Las Vegas Netherlands (technically NEW, will replace the existing UK node) New York - NEW Singapore - NEW Las Vegas, Netherlands & New York are IPV6 enabled for inbound mail with Singapore pending a BGP prefix update. Depending on demand we'll add another server in Europe (Germany, France, Poland, Romania, something EEA) for redundancy for those that want to operate 'Europe Only' emailing. Will this replace SpamExperts? In time, most likely. While SpamExperts does a decent job with filtering, its fairly fragile and quite frustrating to administer. We've had no less than 5 multi hour outages on the platform in the past 6 months. Something had to give since they've not been interested in fixing the issues. What does it look like? Here's some screenshots for you. Again, you can view a branded page here: https://mxfilter.namecrane.org Thanks! Francisco

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Based on the technical breakdown SecurityWeek published July 28 (citing Alibaba's own advisory), here's the architectural impact: Fastjson 1.x treats a u/JSONType annotation as a trust signal during type resolution — combine that with an attacker-controlled resource lookup and you get RCE without AutoType enabled and without a classpath gadget. That's the part that should worry people: the mitigation everyone's been relying on since 2019 (disable AutoType) doesn't touch this variant. Imperva's seeing live exploitation across business, healthcare, financial, and retail targets in the US, plus hits in Singapore/Canada. No official 1.x patch — Alibaba's answer is migrate to 2.x. I wrote up the full chain + a remediation checklist here, with every unverified figure flagged: [link]. For background on the same "default defense has a trust-signal blind spot" pattern in a different ecosystem: [AsyncAPI npm piece]. Anyone running Fastjson 1.x in a fat-jar right now — what's your actual migration blocker to 2.x? API breakage, or just nobody's owned it? https://www.techgines.com/post/fastjson-rce-vulnerability-cve-2026-16723 submitted by /u/Expert_Sort7434 [link] [comments]

Background: I'm an engineer in Algeria. My degree is in electrical/automation and I currently work in oil & gas as a data acquisition engineer (well testing, data integrity, reporting, that kind of thing). About a year ago, I decided to pivot into a remote role because I've been facing a health condition where on-site/field and mostly any physically demanding work is no longer an option for me. Cloud/DevOps is the direction I chose because I like the work and it's the most realistic path I found to stable remote work that pays in USD or EUR What I've done so far: Finished my AWS Cloud Practitioner prep, and I'm about to sit the exam ( scored 85-90% on most mocks, been stuck on a dumb payment/booking issue, but it's coming) Linux fundamentals, wrote a few bash scripts and put them on GitHub Hands-on AWS labs in my own account: built VPCs with public/private subnets, security groups vs NACLs, IAM, a two-tier setup with a private RDS MySQL behind an ALB, S3 gateway endpoints, etc. Broke things on purpose to learn how they fail Currently grinding through Terraform. Kubernetes and more Python are next Here's where the doubt kicks in. When I actually read job postings, two things hit me: Almost every "junior" role still wants 1 to 3 years of real experience Basically every remote role is geo-locked. "Remote (US only)," "must be authorized to work in X," no sponsorship, etc. The genuinely hire-from-anywhere jobs feel rare So my question to people actually working in this field: am I chasing something that barely exists for someone in my situation? Or is the hire-from-anywhere market real if you're good enough and know where to look? And if you've done this from outside the US/EU, how did you actually break in? I like the work, that's not the issue. I just don't want to spend another 6 months on a door that won't open. TLDR: Non-US engineer pivoting into cloud. Made decent progress but every remote role wants experience + local presence. Is this realistic or am I fooling myself? submitted by /u/PlateConfident [link] [comments]