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Looks just like a mini car battery lol c'mon cookie im sure it can't be as hard as replacing the mobo in a laptop?
Cheers
Nick
Our UPS' here are under maintenance contracts, because I don't want to be touching 500v by mistake
Our UPS' here are under maintenance contracts, because I don't want to be touching 500v by mistake
If it comes to the time to change it im sure I can ring the company and ask for a guide/help
Nick
We've got some like that and our staff sparkys aren't allowed to work on them. I'm pretty sure the council do our HVOur UPS' here are under maintenance contracts, because I don't want to be touching 500v by mistake
hah 
See what other side of the wall there is to his solution
Just my opinion here.
Google apps for you email, external supplier for your web site, 2 HP Mini servers, 1 running a software raid NAS, the other running 2K8, 1 firewall and 1 switch (pref layer 3).
The 2K8 server has 4 drives in 2 X raid 1 configuration,
The NAS has 4 drives in raid 5.
The Windows server will run your database and OS on the 1st array, and user shares from the 2 array. At this point of 5 users (?) we are assuming the database will have very low use, and user network shares will have heavy use.
The NAS is your backup server, brought into the office (daily? weekly?), backed up to from the 2K8, then removed off site. Manual backups will be a pain but having an off site backup and losing a few days of data is more important than losing everything in a fire or theft.
Sprinkle your network accordingly but I would consider separating your internet and SQL traffic for security.
This should scale well in the future, if you're going to allow wifi access, create a non routed DMZ and open up the firewall as needed and run your internet facing firewall as locked down as possible. Get some crayons and do a design of how it's going to look, consider running smaller subnets, try to think of the internet as something you will have to allow people access to instead of being on the same gateway as all of your network traffic.
Pick up the car on Saturday, been hanging around the forum and couldn't resist this post. SBS may be a bit of overkill IMO, it is going add a very large layer of complexity for what is in essence 2 services, a database and a file share. I design and build this stuff for a livingVery odd first posts on a car forum mate, but helpful non the less... and duly noted.
I shall research a bit more into Firewalling the network, the router will have a built in one and SBS will have windows firewall so hopefully just a case of running an anti-virus for good measures.
No doubt the network warriors will be in soon so say otherwise
Cheers mate
Nick
Raid 5 is what most cheap storage runs, would be perfect for this application. The storage would also have to be encrypted (loads of different ways of doing this). The important thing is to get this data backed up and off site on a schedule. An expensive backup licence is worthless if your premises are burgled and you have no offsite backup.
Pretty much, wouldn't want to run AD straight off the bat, don't really see the need, 5 users or so? Run a proxy on the smooth wall device and DHCP and DNS on you're Windows server.
Hmmm, raid 5 not ideal for storage, we may have to agree to disagree there! Rackspace may have a slight charge for offsite backups
It won't change the ip address that the outside world see's. We are trying to stop all network traffic that isnt on your subnet getting routed out to the Internet. A proxy will allow you to stop your internal network being able to resolve the outside world by allowing the proxy to do it for you, whilst being able to apply rules and inspect the Internet traffic.
The office has just had its roof put on, interior comes next then Wiring 
