meeting with Newtek - 1/11/17

- number one concern - the data
	code, database, photos, files/media/content


- hardware and up-time


- back-up recovery and plan


- full back-up and store off-site


- we would like to know more about the virtual environment


- it takes us about 2 weeks to spin up a new server




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- newtek will be switching to a pod based model for customer service

- back-up recovery - they would spin up a new box and load up the latest back-up that they have.

- back-up over a private network - doesn't have access to the internet

- how far back are you able to go? 2 weeks or 14 days

- Steve would like an email from Adam dealing with the current back-up and disaster recovery plan is

- they can do any back-up plan that we would like. they could even show us what other clients are doing.

- the pod-type system allows for a team based and personal feeling

- solid state hard drives - net app solution

- maybe look into a VPS model
	- we could template (quick rules and deployment opitons)
	- spin up new servers quicker
	- multiple smaller vps servers with full roll-over
		- run things in parralle vs. stacked

- load balancing - manual vs. automatic

- take things to ip addresses and sections within the data center

- on our end... maybe check the companies out and see what features they are going to be using

- possible idea - floating database model and traffic could float as well

- we can get "new site setup" stuff to adam. he will record that info in the documentation for us.


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- from bryan, what about sql server vs. mysql - price, features, rollover, etc.

- looking forward 10+ years... where do we want to be?

- maybe get some outside consulting to help us future proof things

- server side - coldfuison vs PHP vs ASP.net vs Ruby vs Java vs JavaScript, other, etc.

- they say they want all of our specs, but we still had to babysit things pretty heavily