Creative COW | Christopher Allain | Activity https://creativecow.net/members/christopherallain/activity/ Activity feed for Christopher Allain. Mon, 18 May 2026 16:31:35 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.5.10 en-US 30 hourly 2 06938ba789004d594c87164fcf7d9ffc Christopher Allain replied to the discussion Using the downtime from Coronavirus to do some infrastructure updates in the forum Storage & Archiving https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/using-the-downtime-from-coronavirus-to-do-some-inf/#post-2251017 Wed, 29 Apr 2020 20:44:32 +0000 Reply to Using the downtime from Coronavirus to do some infrastructure updates

Hi Bob,
We do have a website: https://vidox.com/
And we’ve actually been in business since 1982, although it looks like we’ve only had the website since 1995.

]]> 41d5ee4c2a07b5740e12b71004f05ee7 Christopher Allain replied to the discussion Using the downtime from Coronavirus to do some infrastructure updates in the forum Storage & Archiving https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/using-the-downtime-from-coronavirus-to-do-some-inf/#post-2251014 Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:51:55 +0000 Reply to Using the downtime from Coronavirus to do some infrastructure updates

Hi Bob, Thanks for the info!
I’m not familiar with Launch Media.
We’re on the same page regarding costs. I excluded the price of the drives from my estimate because whether I go with an 8 bay NAS or something like an 8 bay enclosure hanging off a mac mini, the drive cost shouldn’t change. The consideration is that if the QNAP is a better solut… Read more

]]> 163134f80a47628cc79e8f7486b72b0d Christopher Allain started the discussion Using the downtime from Coronavirus to do some infrastructure updates in the forum Storage & Archiving https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/using-the-downtime-from-coronavirus-to-do-some-inf/ Mon, 20 Apr 2020 18:51:41 +0000 Using the downtime from Coronavirus to do some infrastructure updates

We’re a small video-production firm with 4-5 users. We’ve been operating with a standard gigabit setup for some time, but we’re now evaluating moving to a new 10G switch as well as a higher-power production server solution.
We’ve previously used a dedicated Mac as our production server. The entire team is quite comfortable with the Mac platfor… Read more

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