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Using a CloudFlare Content Delivery Network (CDN)
In the olden days, a website lived on a glorified computer known as a server. Any time anyone visited that website, the browser on their computer downloaded the images and other files from that server/computer. If ten people looked at the website at the same time, that means ten people were using that server at the same time. And if a hundred people were looking at the website at the same time… well, it wasn’t hard to crash that server. These days, most people use commercial hosting services… and a lot of websites use a CDN, or Content Delivery Network.
Phishing and Spear Phishing Attacks
One of our clients received an email that gave him pause, and he forwarded it to us to check. And we’re glad he did, because we were able to tell him that it was a spear phishing attack and to delete it from his inbox and ignore any new emails that were similar in nature. Frankly, we were a little surprised to see that this email managed to make it past Microsoft’s fairly rigorous spam filters—particularly because the sender was pretending to be Microsoft! But for a moment, let’s back up and talk about phishing versus spear phishing.
Remote Support with I.T. Roadmap: AeroAdmin
Last week, we quietly added a button to our Tech Support page. After years of using TeamViewer and Logmein products for remote support, we have switched to a new-to-us product called AeroAdmin. While we love offering remote support, we didn’t love the process of walking people through installing our remote support tools. And while Logmein is a great product that has gotten much easier to use in the past year or two, we don’t love the pricing for it—now over $100 per month. After all, the lower our cost for support tools, the less it costs you too. AeroAdmin is only $69.90 per seat per year, and it allows us to establish remote access to an unlimited number of computers.
