Re:Bologna! (Score 1)

I don't think I made myself clear in exactly how low end my customer base is. None of my customers have ANY interest in anything like that. With the exception of two Dells all the rest of the servers I've dealt with are white box systems. For the most part they are used for local file serving and some groupware stuff. For what I do Debian is fully supported in every respect. Hell none of my customers even do their own web hosting. My customer base is strictly small business and some SOHO. Only one of my customers even has more than one location. That one I've got set up to do VPN between the two locations. For remote management, which I rarely have to do, I use certificate based SSH. For people like me and the customers I'm looking to aquire and keep those features are not a selling point. I'm happy doing what I do. Yeah I sometimss spend a bit of time scratching my head trying to figure out how to do some oddball thing a customer wants but I have fun while scratching my head. Some of us are happy with what we are doing and just are not ambitious (sp) enough to want to deal with companies that are big enough to want or need a systme like that. If one of my customers systems go down I almost always have enough spare parts to get it back up immediately. And I'm very demanding about backups. I make it clear that backups are important and that failure to make them is a good way to loose a lot of money. Anyway I just wanted to clarify that not all of us are working on systems that even need those features. My prefered customer base is the little mom and pops shops who need a cheap but reliable system. As long as they pay my bills and I'm having fun doing what I do I'll keep it up. When it starts getting really boring I'll look at going up to the next level.