Search Again: Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License From: Tom ONeil Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 Time: 6:03:22 pm Shawn Hogan wrote: > Tom ONeil wrote: >>Here's a snippet of a conversation from last month... >> >>"We didn't suspend the non-paying users or get the invoices out because >>the office line went down." >> >>"We have 20 racks of equipment in the colo, 3 bandwidth providers on 3 >>networks, access to 9 carriers, 2 dedicated machines running $3K in >>licenses with over 500 man-hours in configuration and it doesn't work >>because of a cable modem? And in order to make it work there we need >>another filemaker license running on a Windows box?" >> >>"Well, yes." > > > Well, where you want to put your billing system is of course up to you, but > for me personally, I wouldn't feel comfortable putting my customer data on a > remote co-located server somewhere with no firewall protection. > > - Shawn I wouldn't either and I resent the inference that we have. Nor will I run it without a building UPS, 7X24 monitoring, onsite security and a fire supression system. That running a customer information database on a DSL line without a firewall, even behind NAT, in a standard office environment is somehow secure is ludicrous at best. Perpetuate what you will about billing software, but do not presume to speak about network security. -- Tom ONeil Superhero Networks http://www.superheronet.net The colocation and systems professionals --------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe or to search list archive please visit http://www.optigold.com/lists/isp.html ---------------------------------------------------

Messages In This Thread: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Lance Terner on Feb 25, 2003 at 11:19:05 pm Clarification - Multiple Company License by Lance Terner on Feb 25, 2003 at 11:55:59 pm Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Matthew Bailey on Feb 26, 2003 at 6:46:52 am Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Shawn Hogan on Feb 26, 2003 at 8:18:58 am Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Administrator on Feb 26, 2003 at 8:53:53 am Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Shawn Hogan on Feb 26, 2003 at 9:17:43 am Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Tom ONeil on Feb 26, 2003 at 9:27:34 am Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Shawn Hogan on Feb 26, 2003 at 9:32:04 am Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Matthew Bailey on Feb 26, 2003 at 10:09:05 am Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Fernando Huerta =?iso-8859-1?Q?Zu=F1iga?= on Feb 26, 2003 at 10:10:56 am Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Tom ONeil on Feb 26, 2003 at 11:53:02 am Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Administrator on Feb 26, 2003 at 1:24:57 pm Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Shawn Hogan on Feb 26, 2003 at 1:27:23 pm Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Shawn Hogan on Feb 26, 2003 at 1:35:27 pm Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Tom ONeil on Feb 26, 2003 at 2:05:38 pm Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Shawn Hogan on Feb 26, 2003 at 3:50:36 pm Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Tom ONeil on Feb 26, 2003 at 6:03:22 pm Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Shawn Hogan on Feb 26, 2003 at 6:40:57 pm Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Tim Atcheson on Feb 27, 2003 at 1:15:26 am Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Tim Atcheson on Feb 27, 2003 at 1:23:26 am Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Shawn Hogan on Feb 27, 2003 at 8:39:33 am Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Shawn Hogan on Feb 27, 2003 at 8:47:21 am Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Lance Terner on Feb 27, 2003 at 9:57:53 am Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Shawn Hogan on Feb 27, 2003 at 10:02:56 am Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Michael J. Colvin on Feb 28, 2003 at 2:57:27 pm Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Shawn Hogan on Mar 1, 2003 at 11:46:21 am Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Michael J. Colvin on Mar 1, 2003 at 12:18:58 pm Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Shawn Hogan on Mar 1, 2003 at 12:24:49 pm Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Michael J. Colvin on Mar 1, 2003 at 12:38:09 pm Re: Clarification - Multiple Company License by Tim Atcheson on Mar 4, 2003 at 2:36:50 am