Syncthing: keeping folders identical without a cloud account The drawings folder lives on the office PC. A copy lives on the site manager's laptop. A third copy went to the yard on a memory stick last Tuesday. Nobody is certain which one is current, and the arg... 15 Aug 2026
Tailscale for small offices: remote access without a VPN server Somebody needs the accounts file that lives on the office server, and they are at home. The options on the table are all bad: open a port on the router and hope, put the file in a personal Dropbox, or... 15 Aug 2026
Nextcloud for business: when your own file server makes sense Your files live in Dropbox, or Google Drive, or a mix of both plus a NAS somebody bought in 2019. The bill goes up every year, nobody is quite sure who has access to what, and when a client asks where... 15 Aug 2026
Microsoft 365 in a small company: five settings that make your mail safer Microsoft 365 is secure enough out of the box to pass a sales demo, and not quite secure enough for a real company. Five settings take an afternoon and remove most of the risk. 1. Multi-factor authent... 6 Aug 2026
Backups: how to know they will actually restore Most companies have backups. Far fewer have ever restored one. The difference only becomes visible on the worst day of the year. A backup that has never been restored is a hypothesis Backup software r... 6 Aug 2026
What should be included in IT support for a small business: an eight-point checklist Every IT company promises "full support". The word means different things to different providers — here is a checklist you can put in front of any of them, including us. 1. Who answers, and how fast A... 6 Aug 2026
Managed VPS or shared hosting: what a small business actually needs If your website or company mail has outgrown shared hosting, the next step is usually a VPS. Here is what actually changes — and what it costs in practice. What shared hosting really is On shared host... 6 Aug 2026
