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IT Guides, Networking & Cybersecurity Insights - Types of hypervisors, and why we run Proxmox for small business servers

IT Infrastructure & Networking

Business Technology Insights

Types of hypervisors, and why we run Proxmox for small business servers

A plain-English look at type 1 and type 2 hypervisors, what VMware, Hyper-V and Proxmox actually cost, and the backup and cluster habits we follow on every Proxmox install.

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Business Technology Insights

What Google's August spam update actually changed, and who it moved

Google's August 2026 spam update introduced no new rules - it enforced existing ones harder. What it targets, who gains and loses when one of these lands, and why Google's own documentation puts recovery at months rather than weeks.

IT Guides, Networking & Cybersecurity Insights - AI hackers are coming for WordPress: how to pick the best WordPress security plugin

Cybersecurity & Compliance

Business Technology Insights

AI hackers are coming for WordPress: how to pick the best WordPress security plugin

AI now finds WordPress security holes in hours. What that means for your site, what WordPress fixed, and a plain-English comparison of Wordfence, Sucuri, and Patchstack.

IT Guides, Networking & Cybersecurity Insights - What AI automation actually does inside a managed IT service

Productivity & Automation

Business Technology Insights

What AI automation actually does inside a managed IT service

The AI that matters to your business is not the chatbot on your website. It is the automation inside your IT service — and it is worth knowing what it does.

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Cybersecurity & Compliance

Tech Support Tips & Best Practices

The security plan the IRS expects you to already have

The IRS Security Summit series runs five weeks every summer. Most of it is guidance, but the written security plan is a legal requirement and the reporting chain is a list no firm can assemble under pressure.

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Cloud & Virtualization

IT Infrastructure & Networking

What actually moves when you move to the cloud

A cloud migration is not one decision but a list of them, one per application. Two of the seven standard answers involve moving nothing at all, and they are usually the two worth the most.

A bundle of patch cables converging on a small network switch in a back-office cupboard.

IT Infrastructure & Networking

Cybersecurity & Compliance

What tax software actually asks of your network

Professional tax software comes in three deployment shapes, and the one you pick decides what your network has to carry, what the vendor will support, and who is responsible for encrypting the returns.

A network technician kneeling at a desk-side rack in a small office, running a cable past empty workstations.

IT Infrastructure & Networking

Business Technology Insights

Drake, ProSeries, ProConnect and CrossLink: what each one asks of your network

Four packages, two deployment models and one vendor on both sides. What Drake, ProSeries, ProConnect Tax and CrossLink each require, taken from their own documentation, and the configurations two of them refuse to support.

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Business Technology Insights

What an AI agent needs from your website before it buys

Two different things are being sold as getting ready for AI agents. Google says one needs no special markup at all, while the other runs on a product feed most service businesses cannot file yet.

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