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The battle against spam (an internal perspective)

23/01/2018

A quick history of Spam…the 70’s In the early days of the internet, email was a safe and trusted messaging system. Sending an email to someone you did not know or have business with was almost unheard of. Email protocols were developed in a trusting environment and very little was written into the protocol as […]

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Virtual Hosting and my IT resources

21/01/2018

Amongst Virtual Hosting customers, there is a misconception that moving to “the Cloud” is an easy way to eliminate the cost of IT staff. This is rarely true. Most virtual hosting providers do not offer managed hosting. If they do, it will usually be at a significantly extra cost. In the end, you may end […]

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Backup Strategy

20/01/2018

Do you have one? Backups are often done incorrectly, inaccurately or not at all. What should we do when planning our backup? Having no backup strategy is almost as bad as having no backups. Our backup strategy tells us a few things: When to backup. (not how many times a day or week, but WHEN). […]

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Task Automation

20/01/2018

Why Automation? In IT, as in most business, there are certain tasks which end up stealing all your joy by being endlessly boring and repetitive. We used to call them “character building” but with all that is available to us today, we can dispense with manually doing many of these “character builders”. What these tasks […]

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IIS Server – Multiple sites with one IP

16/01/2018

One misconception I often come across with clients that are new to hosting and for some reason want to host on IIS Web server is that they need an IP address for each website. This is not true as IIS is just as capable of Virtual Sites as for example Apache or NginX. The secret […]

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DNS Records – Best Practice

15/01/2018

Although the basics of DNS records is easy to understand, I often see badly configured DNS zones. Here are a few pointers to help keep that DNS pure and fast according to industry best practice. CNAME RECOMMENDATIONS These records are heavily overused and abused. The basic rule is that a CNAME should never point to another […]

The battle against spam (an internal perspective)

Virtual Hosting and my IT resources

Backup Strategy

Task Automation

IIS Server – Multiple sites with one IP

DNS Records – Best Practice

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