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Cortexian

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    Alberta, Canada
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    Web Developer

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    Intel Core i7-4930k @ 4.2GHz
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    Asus Rampage IV Black Edition
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    16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 1866MHz (4x4)
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    SLI GeForce GTX TITAN 6GB
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    Corsair 900D
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    2 x Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (RAID0), 2 x Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (RAID1)
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    Corsair AX1200i
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    Asus ROG Swift 1440p G-SYNC, 2 x Asus PA248Q
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    Corsair H100i
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    Razer Blackwidow 2013 Cherry MX Blue
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    Razer DeathAdder 2013
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    Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Speakers / Logitech G930 7.1 Headset
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    Windows 8.1 Professional

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  1. +1 for using the link above to setup the server on Oracle's Free Forever Cloud. Minecraft (Java) is commonly exploited and unless you're very familiar with patching and keeping the server up to date, it could even be a security risk. More secure to set it up off-site on Oracle's infrastructure. Oracle also has the advantage of having a datacentre network and power infrastructure. You'll never need to worry about network or power outages, and it's a good learning experience on their Cloud platform to boot. You can leave this server on 24/7, or take everything a step further and investigate how to install https://pterodactyl.io/ so you can have a control panel/user accounts to let your friends turn the server on and off.
  2. Just got Telus PureFibre Business Internet 1G https://www.speedtest.net/result/12802381559 Business for the Static IP goodness.
  3. TL;DR - LTT accounted for PSU related redundancy, but did nothing to deal with other hardware failure from the switches. Other hardware failures are literally just as likely as PSU related failures. As someone that recently looking into a similarly sized deployment of Ubiquiti gear for a small business, I find it interesting to see that the LTT crew appears to have fallen into the same redundancy fallacy as I initially did regarding the RPS platform. It's definitely a cool idea, a decentralized secondary PSU for all the networking devices in the rack. It allows for modular design and upgrade potential so that UI can market the same switches to SOHO that don't mind if a switch goes down until a replacement can be sourced, as well as those looking to maximize network up time. That said, by making a product like this available and "easy to implement" it allows for novice network designers like myself and the LTT crew to make a critical mistake in planning for redundancy. It looks like all of the switches are being connected in a daisy chain, so while they have redundant power, if one of those switches bricks for any reason other than a failed PSU, every network device below it will also be disconnected from the rest of the network. This is extremely poor redundant design. NetworkChuck has a really great video explaining redundant network design, on the small scale and even scaled out to enterprise scale: If LTT wants to implement a correctly designed redundant network, they need at least two identical switches on each tier of the network prior to their WAN connection. If I were designing this network I would use: Routing Layer UXG-Pro-US Next-Generation Gateway Pro (Early Access) Distribution Layer USW-Aggregation Switch Aggregation (1) USW-Aggregation Switch Aggregation (2) Access Layer USW-EnterpriseXG-24 Switch Enterprise XG 24 (1) USW-EnterpriseXG-24 Switch Enterprise XG 24 (2) USW-Pro-48-PoE Switch Pro 48 PoE (1) Clients UNVR-Pro Network Video Recorder Pro (1) UNVR Network Video Recorder (1) UI Protect Cameras UI UniFi APs Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Devices, Etc Starting from your Routing Layer, you would connect the UXG-Pro LAN1 to USW-Aggregation (1) with a 10Gbit DAC cable. Then connect LAN2 to USW-Aggregation (2). This gives your Distribution layer redundancy to the Routing Layer. To connect your Access Layer redundantly to your now redundant Distribution Layer you would follow: USW-EnterpriseXG-24 (1) SFP1 connects to USW-Aggregation (1) Port1. USW-EnterpriseXG-24 (1) SFP2 connects to USW-Aggregation (2) Port1. Use 10 Gbit DAC cables. USW-EnterpriseXG-24 (2) SFP1 connects to USW-Aggregation (1) Port2. USW-EnterpriseXG-24 (2) SFP2 connects to USW-Aggregation (2) Port2. Use 10 Gbit DAC cables. USW-Pro-48-PoE (1) SFP1 connects to USW-Aggregation (1) Port3. USW-Pro-48-PoE (1) SFP2 connects to USW-Aggregation (2) Port3. Use 10 Gbit DAC cables. Since your access layer is directly connected to clients/devices, there's not a huge need to make that layer redundant. The clients/devices probably don't have a redundant connected so they are already a single point of failure. You can't connect any Protect series camera to multiple switches AFAIK, so connecting all of your cameras to a single switch IMO is fine. If a camera dies it dies. If a switch PSU dies, you have the RPS to provide a failover. If the switch bricks, having a second wouldn't save the cameras immediately anyway since they can't be connected to more than one switch... One could argue that even with a single ISP, a high-availability routing configuration would be best. AKA two physical routers at the Routing Layer in a "failover" configuration. If one machine bricks for a non-PSU related reason the other would take over. I do not believe that the UXG-Pro or any UI routing product supports having a second router in the stack. For this I would replace the UI options and use a couple of Netgate XG-7100 1U appliances with expansion cards setup in high availabilty mode. This would give you hardware redundancy on the Routing Layer as well. It's probably overkill if you only have a single ISP though. Without a secondary ISP available to use as a failover, you're probably more likely to have issues with your ISP than with your routing layer. Just my two cents! I would love to see Linus revise this so it's truely redundant. Purely from an LTT over the top ridiculous level experiment. Would be fun to watch you just completely pull out a switch and have everything in the network keep on chugging along like nothing happened! Edit: Just forgot to note, the UXG-Pro needs a UI Network controller to manage it. It's not an appliance host like the USG-Pro/USG. However, since this is Linus we're talking about, he'll have plenty of server resources to spin up a simple Linux VM to run the Network Controller locally, or use whatever cloud-accessible one he seemingly connected to in the video already to do this. No need to spend excessive money on a CloudKey or anything like that.
  4. Short-throw projectors have always been fun for me, used a few different ones in school for the boring stuff and was always blown away by just how large of an image you could get out of them at such close distances. The PF1000U would work absolutely awesome hanging closed to the edge of my bedroom ceiling and paired with a nice roll-up screen over the window. Can't pull off a larger TV in the room because of the darn window! Cheers,
  5. Why use three independant RAID controllers when a single 9361-8i + an Intel RES2CV360 would of worked just fine?
  6. Sorry if my previous post wasn't clear, but the 60p is for slowing down in post production. Final videos will likely still be rendered/encoded at 30p.
  7. I'm thinking of going with a Panasonic ZR1000 intead of a digital SLR frame. I loose the ability to interchange lenses, but as I was looking into a Sony CX900 before, the ZR1000 looks like an amazing deal with many more video recording modes and a similar feature and specifications set. I need 1080/60p or faster because there are a couple of projects that I'd like to implement slow motion shots into. The ZR1000 supports 1080/120p, so that's an added bonus. Cost on the ZR1000 is much cheaper than the Sony CX900 or any DSLR setup, and it does what I want so I think I'll be going that route. I've still got my Canon T1i for photos!
  8. Interesting, it looks like Canon's new 7D Mk II does 1080p 60fps as well... Though it's a fair way outside of my budget considering it's $1800 for the body without lenses. I was kinda hoping to find something in the $800 - $1200 range all-in. Or suck it up and get a quality solution instead of a stop-gap... Hmm... Well thanks for the information at least!
  9. Hybrid AF: Not entirely sure what you're referring to. You don't mean what some of their newer DSLR bodies use in conjunction with STM lenses do you? Because I've tried that, and it left A LOT to be desired.
  10. Hey everyone! For the past few months I've been trying to figure out what a good "standalone" camera for solo review/unboxing videos would be. I've got some experience using various DSLRs and SOME camcorders for video recording, however I've continuously run into the same problem when filming videos on my own. It's a huge pain in the butt to try and get decent shots of a video if you're recording it by yourself in a "one-shot" style take. Why? Because the auto-focus on most DSLR cameras I've tried is horrible. It takes way to long to actually focus on the spot requested, and while it's focusing it's making huge jarring movements to the picture. I'm asking around here to know if anyone knows of a camera with not only good quality picture, but also above-average to extremely nice auto-focus capabilities. I'm starting to think that it's not really possible with a DSLR, and that I'll have to start looking into a prosumer style camcorder. I'd also love a camera that can shoot 1080p at 60fps instead of 30fps. I haven't seen a DSLR capable of this, again, only camcorders. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
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