Backups, saving us from evil! “Nothing keeps me up at night more than wondering if my data is safe.” George Washington CTO, United States Backing up your data can save you from disaster! Let’s discuss the “WHY” of backups Has a user deleted a critical file? Did a server crash and render your database offline? …
Ransomware Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask! What is ransomware? Ransomware is when your data is in the hands of others. In the past, this simply meant that all of your data was encrypted and there was a new file that you could open that had instructions for paying the bad …
What is RAID and why would you use it? RAID stands for “redundant array of inexpensive (or independent) disks”. This doesn’t clearly define what it truly is or why it would be used. RAID can be used for the following benefits: Performance. By grouping disks together in various configurations, RAID can provide performance increases that …
Installing free Active Directory with Ubuntu and Samba We are making great progress in our series, “completely open source office“. We have a firewall now, and our empty office has internet access on all the ports of our shiny new switch. We still have some “infrastructure” to put in place before we work on our …
In our previous article, we discussed how you can run your company entirely on open-source software. Now you’ve decided to save money by using open-source software, great. We need to begin with a firewall. After all, everybody needs the internet above all else. For this piece, we will be using PfSense (free firewall software). You …
It started with a dare: “I bet you can’t create a complete office environment using nothing but open source software!” Short answer: I won. Once I took my dare, I decided on a few things upfront: All software must be open source and must be able to run on hardware laying around already. No fancy …
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A brief list of upcoming articles This will just be a brief list of upcoming blog posts. We are migrating from another (outdated) blogging platform so our posts will disappear. We will most likely end up posting them as new articles on this platform. Here is what will be coming over soon: What is open …
