3 hours of downtime doesn’t sound too bad for such a cheap setup. Perhaps they didn’t need something better.
I’m a bit surprised about the need to have macOS versions in sync though. That sounds unusual.
I’m a bit surprised about the need to have macOS versions in sync though. That sounds unusual.
3 hours downtime seems fine for an ad agency, not sure what “drivers” they were reinstalling on MacOS feels like a windows technician approach and makes me wonder if there was some other weirdness they were doing to fit a square peg into a round hole.
It's a reader-contributed column. I give that as much credibility as the fiction on AITA and similar subreddits.
I’m curious about their share server setup; my solution would probably be a Debian server exposing AppleTalk.
I’ve used that to transfers files between a G3 iMac and an M2 MacBook :)
However, this sounds like maybe one of those all in one IT services shops of overworked, underpaid technicians where everything is duct tape and requests go from “my icons have moved how do I send emails now” to this sharing files on Macs thing.
Getting out is the only good move.
NFS is another option, but I mostly use that for r/o media shares.
What's missing from this article is what the service provider wanted to charge the ad agency for a new server. An M2 Mac Mini is like $600 USD. I just Google>Shopping searched "2u file server" and the prices for new equipment seemed to start at around $4,000. Is that close to what an IT company like the one from the article would charge or would there be some significant markup?