Quick summary of geekage since last update.
- I’m now a Windows server and desktop technician, supporting a couple of factories for one business. No longer working at a shop that provides tech support (or an IT support company that sells stuff), I have learnt a lot more about Windows server troubleshooting than I did at the last place.
- I built a Hesk server on Ubuntu, hosted on a Windows Server 2022 Hyper-V, serving a helpdesk system for a small team of maintenance workers at my employers.
- I built a website on Joomla
- I built a super simple server (1core, 1GB RAM, 10GB SSD) online to act as a remote desktop broker and relay, using Rustdesk, to better support my friends by remote, without having to spend money on something like Team Viewer.
Team Viewer, for the record, is a bunch of money-grubbers. The processing power required to broker remote connections are so miniscule, that I could run my last employee’s remote support needs on an equally tiny virtual server. When I was using Team Viewer to access my home PC about 3 years ago from work, I was told that because I used it more frequently than once a yonk, and that I was using it from a business address (for personal use, mind), I needed a business licence, and the cost of that monthly was more than twice my fibre-to-the-premises 500mbps service.
I told them exactly where they can go. Now I’m renting a 1, 1, 10 VM in the cloud for £12 a year, installed the Team Viewer clone for free and saved £66.90/month.