Ransomware has been one of the growing areas of data security threats in recent years. Wannacry was the biggest, best known approach of this. Essentially, a virus starts encrypting your files and holds them for ransom. If you give enough money (usually in bitcoin), they will give you the decrypt […]
Yearly Archives: 2019
Some businesses need high levels of confidentiality for their documents. Things need to be shared with a few people, but in such a way that there’s a confidence that there haven’t been others taking a look at the process. Real estate, business brokerages, insurance, title insurance, laywers and paralegals all […]
Secure File Sharing Solutions
Years ago, I was at my wits end with Windows. I’d usually be able to get what I needed done, but it was usually after lots of pain, tears, frustration, muttering under my breath, uninstalling and reinstalling and then finally oh finally I could scan again. The registry… incompatible dll’s […]
Linux System Administration
We’ve been designing web sites since 1994. Yes… 1994 Back when web browsers looked like this… Most people didn’t even know about the web then. Once I learned what a web browser was, I knew I needed to design a web page. So, I made a website of my own […]
Web Site Design
As a “tech support” company, one of the things we have striven for over the years is to be ahead of the problems that our clients face. If a server is down we want to know about it before they do so we can either have it back up and […]
Monitoring Systems, Networks and Services with Zabbix
We’ve been talking about backups for a few posts now. It’s a critically important topic whether we’re talking about business or personal files. Data loss really stinks and can be very costly.Backups are the antidote for that. That much said, sometimes people think because they have a copy of their […]
Layered Backups
A backup for your business (or even personal) data is so essential. Hard drives and other storage media die. It’s just a matter of time. Usually it happens without warning. Files get deleted or overwritten accidentally. The bad scenarios for your data could go on and on. “I was cleaning […]
Time Machine Style Backups for Servers with Rsnapshot
Databases…. Once upon a time most people used databases as a single file. One of my first clients had an Access database that would get corrupted so often and I’d have to fix it for them. Over the years I was introduced to database servers and for a long time […]
MySQL Database Replication
Data Loss will happen. Hard drives fail, laptops get dropped, water drips through ceilings, fires happen… Yes bad things happen and at some point that hard drive you save all your business files on will fail. It might not be today or tomorrow and it may give you warning. But […]
Backup or Lose Data
We’ve decided to start a blog here at Diversified Tech Solutions. There are a number of topics that we want to be giving updates on that just don’t fit into the structure of the main web site. So, check back for updates, subscribe to the feed and we will be […]