SSH (Secure Shell) is "a protocol for secure remote login and other secure network services over an insecure network." (See RFC 4253). Webmasters are familiar with FTP, or "File Transfer Protocol", which lets them connect to a remote server in order to upload and...
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High Availability Web Hosting
Have you ever wondered why it seems Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, or another large website almost never seems to go down? As cloud services become more pervasive, "downtime" is becoming a thing of the past. Downtime, as the word implies, is an indication that a...
Web Hosting and Website Maintenance
One of the concepts several of our clients and people I talk to on "the street" routinely misunderstand is the difference between website maintenance and website hosting. In one of the first blog posts I wrote, I explained that there are 3 different costs to building...
2015 Nonprofit Tech Trends: User Experience in the Cloud
2015 is here, and technology innovations are constantly advancing. According to Forbes, organizations will get smarter about using cloud technology. User experience will be critical, they argue. TechRadar agrees: By digitising information-intensive processes, costs...
Securing your CRM Donor & Client Data
There are several common CRMs that are available for nonprofit organizations. Your needs as an organization - and how you need to manage your data - should come first. The technology (whatever software platform you choose to use) should support those needs. In other...
Your Computer Equipment & Surge Protection
Let's face it. Computer equipment, servers, and network appliances including routers, switches & firewalls are expensive. Replacing them would cost money, not to mention valuable time & energy of your staff or outside contractors that could be used elsewhere....
Data Redundancy vs Backups
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on Technology Infrastructure and Inclement Weather. In this blog post, I'm writing about a similar topic included in the last blog post, the difference between data redundancy and data backups (and why you should have both)....
Technology Infrastructure & Inclement Weather
Tonight, the Chattanooga TN area will see extremely strong thunderstorms, as well as possible tornadoes that have already done damage to other parts of the United States. Disaster response readiness – for any type of emergency – is important. But one area of...
Securely Discarding Your Old Hard Drives
We recently had a client who wanted to replace one of their employee's computers. In this process, I asked (and they wisely accepted) if I should destroy the data on the old computer's hard drive after taking a backup of the necessary data to transfer to the new PC....
Your Information and the Social Engineer
"I operate under the principle that my computer is owned by at least three governments." This was said by Costin Raiu, Senior Security Researcher for Kaspersky Lab, in a presentation he gave to information security analysts at an event hosted by Kaspersky. Raiu wasn't...
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– Enrique Fiallo, Director of Technology, NET Institute
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