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I have two hosting companies I deal with on a regular basis. The first of course being HostMySite.com, while the other is the big player over at Rackspace. For the most part, both companies offer dedicated managed servers running Windows or Red Hat, with 24x7 Support and quality networks and top not[...]

I was just sitting here tonight reading a few white papers I've needed to catch up on and had a question pass through my head that I wanted to hear opinions on from some other people. The question: What is your reasoning for not choosing a product to implement at a customer's location? Eve[...]

Day Two at the SMB Nation conference started a little slow, as I think a lot of people had lots of fun the previous night. Between the happy hour and the dinner that many of us partook in, we were all feeling a little rough that morning. But once things got going it was another great day, with a bun[...]

As I have lamented here previously, we had a Juniper SSG-140 for our Firewall at the office. This wasn’t even remotely close to my choice for the firewall, as personally I would have enjoyed installing a Calyptix AE3000, but the person that was being groomed to be the Network Admin was adamant abo[...]

We are currently in the process of looking for new connectivity and voice providers for our office, due in most part to long standing issues with the current provider. I have never personally been a big fan of ATX, but the list of things that have been wrong are just overwhelming if you ask me. One [...]

After a recent installation of a Juniper SSG-140 Firewall, I came to question the philosophy behind the development of the product. Don’t get me wrong, the product works, but it feels like the setup is needlessly complicated for the sake of complication. Frankly, I think the biggest problem stems [...]

So many technology consultants these days all seem to have the same list of partners littering their websites, with much of it being equivalent to those pieces of flair that employee’s of Chotchkie’s love to flaunt. Everyone is a partner with Symantec, Cisco, Microsoft, and a large list of other[...]