So for a while I have been using a Digital Ocean droplet based in Singapore and it is cheaper than an AWS EC2 Instance However I did some tests and found that ping times to Sydney from Melbourne were ~20ms and to Singapore ~400ms I noticed some lag problems with a web...
Cloud Migration
Why you should put your compute as close as possible to your users
I'm in Melbourne notice the round trip time from my browser to Sydney Amazon Servers 30ms You can test this by finding a ping-able IP address in the cloud you are using to host your VM and compare with one from the another location...
AWS to Digital Ocean DNS Record Migration
Just completed a migration away from AWS to Digital Ocean Need to install the Digital Ocean dotctl command line utility (this is using brew on a mac) brew install dotctl Transfer domain records away from AWS using the aws-cli #!/bin/bash domains=$(aws route53...
G-Suite to Office 365 Migration Stalled
Following the steps at this link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/mailbox-migration/perform-g-suite-migration#create-a-migration-batch-in-office-365 Trigger the migration in the ECP (Exchange Control Panel) Viewing the status of the migration Login to...
Notes from a Single 28GB PST Migration from on Premise Exchange to Office 365
OK this is an unstructured post but I'm just going to leave it here for when I forget what I did. I have a site with a Okla Speed up/down rating of around 2Mbps. On that site is an SBS 2011 Box which includes a Exchange 2010 Server with about 11 years of email on it....