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20+ year IT veteran (currently an Enterprise Cloud Architect) looking for an MSP/CSP/TSP/MSSP to acquire. Been in the market for 4 years. Trying Reddit to see we can avoid the broker BS--I think we all know I mean. No offense to any brokers.

Looking for an MSP with between $500,000 and $750,000 in Adjusted EBITDA. Really FCFF but Adj EBITDA being more of the industry standard we'll stick with it as a close enough proxy.

4.0x to 6.0x target multiple but that's not etched in stone for the right business.

Minimum 10 employees. Low churn.

Goes without saying that the business must not need the (current) owner. Relationships transferrable, etc.

No client contract representing over 10% to

25+ IT veteran here looking to buy a tech/MSP/Consulting business in the $750k-$999k EBITDA range. Would appreciate help in dealing with crazy (to me I suppose) valuations.

For a sub $1m EBITDA ($650k-$750k let's say) MSP in 2025, do the below multiples make any sense? If so, I'm just gonna go buy some laundromats. This is getting ridiculous.

Sub-Sector Typical EBITDA Multiple

Managed Service Providers (MSPs):

6x – 10x

Data Centers / Colocation:

10x – 18x+

Cloud Infrastructure / IaaS:

8x – 15x

Network Infrastructure Providers:

7x – 12x

IT Support & Systems Integration

5x – 8x

I could see these multiples for $1m and higher EBITDAs but not under. Thoughts?

Original thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/elliottsmith/comments/1jvjqsd/possible_elliott_smith_live_album/

If there is a better way to update the original post or keep the subject alive, definitely let me know. Otherwise I will continue this strategy of occasional updates via new threads referencing the past threads.

I have received contact information for an industry/music attorney who I will be reaching out to next to find out how we can receive the rights to release the recordings in question.

In regard to the rights issue, Elliott's parents own all music ownership rights up to January

Looking for advice and general feedback on how to (crowd) fund a potential Elliott Smith live album.

It would be based on his apparently many performances throughout his career at Club Largo in LA (97-2001). There's even unreleased stuff, a few examples are on YouTube of super rare performances there. One example: https://youtu.be/mhCeEDe0LHU?si=-GptzFXOn_a_j2ar

Check out this post for reference from Mark Flanagan talking about it, including a half serious half joking appeal for getting the release(s) out (end of the article):

https://soflawedanddrunkandperfectstill.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/jon-brion-show-vh1-pilot-santa-monica-juin-1999/

I imagine the process wouldn't be too difficult.

Title.

Context: middle aged, hetero sexual marriage and most prior relationships. Monogamy preferred.

Recent therapy and self-reflection have potentially identified un-integrated (repressed?) bisexuality as a (one of) cause of many, erm, aberrant--let's say, anti-social behaviors throughout my life.

Kind of an odd-duck though and don't see the purpose of "coming out". Kinda see it as narcissistic--let the hate flow through you, mwahahahaha. Seriously though, I'm not a fan of "look at me", "pay attention to me"-ism.

It's a catch 22 in my eyes. I feel like I'm a bit alone here but anyone feel the same?

I have this burning pit of denial that has caused so much destruction in my life (maybe

Looking at Ebay wondering what would be the best hardware load balancer for a home lab. Yes, I know I could virtualize or just use haproxy etc. but that isn't what I want as that is what I am doing now. I am specifically looking to work with Enterprise grade hardware (albeit a bit older and more affordable). That being said, it would also be cool if the licensing wasn't ornery and wouldn't cause any support or lifecycle issues.

F5 seems the obvious route but Kemp looks pretty. I'm a sucker for colored rack hardware.

We are expanding from flat network, trying to get new VLAN to route to internet and having some issues.

Equipment: HP V1910-48G + SonicWALL TZ 105.

VLAN 1: 192.168.0.0/24, X0 (LAN) interface on SonicWALL: 192.168.0.1

VLAN 100: 192.168.100.0/24, X0:V100 (LAN) sub-interface on SonicWALL: 192.168.100.1

VLAN interfaces on switch are 192.168.0.254 (VLAN 1) and 192.168.100.254 (VLAN 100)

Trunk port connecting switch to firewall--untagged for VLAN 1 (existing VLAN), tagged for VLAN 100 (new VLAN). Hosts on VLAN 1 and VLAN 100 are able to communicate through inter-VLAN routing. Hosts on both VLANs are able to ping their respective interfaces on the SonicWALL i.e. 192.168.0.1 for VLAN 1 and

I am playing around with KVM and virtual-manager on CentOS 7. What I would like to have is a central image (ISO) store that my remote KVM machine (managed from CentOS 7 workstation) can access.

I already have such a store as a windows (CIFS) share from a previous Hyper-V setup. What I am trying to figure out is how to get the default location of KVM images i.e. /var/lib/libvirt/images to point to my existing CIFS iso store. Symlinks I have read will not work, any other suggestions?

How do I add one of those desktop resource monitoring widgets? You know, the ones that tell you current CPU, memory, disk usage among other things.

The one example I have seen is on the Manjaro Openbox install. However, I would be interested to know the general way to add this to different desktop environments or window managers. Specifically LXqt or LXDE would be nice, that's what I am playing with mostly right now.

Noticed it in default CentOS 7 (and I think Fedora 20 maybe?) install.

From what I have read it would seem perfectly safe to disable mdns service and remove it as an accepted firewall service but I just wanted to see if anyone had a compelling or "gotcha" reason to keep it around?

I have a central DNS server on the network already btw.

Likely we are are all familiar with Red Hat's RHCSA. But now there is The Linux Foundation's LFCS which seems rather similar with a choice of distro/flavor concentrations i.e. CentOS, OpenSUSE or Ubuntu.

If you all had a choice (and assuming you do not already have either or had to do one again) which would you choose?

RHCSA has more pedigree and recognition (and also tests for RHEL 7 in new version) but LFCS seems like a "hip" new choice.