When I started working for my employer, they were using an on-site server and file storage with overnight backups to external drives. Everything was limited by the broadband (internet connection) speed, which in England is quite crazy — business parks rarely have access to inexpensive fibre connections, whereas at home you can get cheap Full Fibre. When things changed (or rather, the company needed to invest in change), we moved everything into the cloud.
We chose Microsoft 365 as our provider.
Once the migration was completed and people had got used to accessing their files in the new way (which hadn’t changed much thanks to the integration of the OneDrive app with Windows, apart from the use of file links), I needed to find a method to back up all files in case of an emergency (or the accidental removal of important files by an employee).
Although Microsoft provides an option to restore files for a short period (typically 30 days), sometimes that may be too short — by the time you notice files are missing, it could be too late. It’s better to have a backup (even an old version of the file) than to have no copy at all.
Without going into costly online backup solutions, or even investing in Microsoft 365 Backup (with its pay-as-you-go billing model), I decided to build an inexpensive and relatively cheap long-term backup system — and I did.
Looking across various internet forums, from time to time I see people asking a support question, and straight away they add their apology for their poor English.
Most of the time, the question, issue or general query is formed correctly. English and not native English speakers can read and understand what the author got on his mind. The addition to showing the author’s weakness in the language (where he is not an English speaker) is unnecessary.
The current price of storage devices fall drastically. Currently, you can buy 128 GB memory stick for as low as £8.99 on Amazon, however I will highly advise you against doing that, and here is why.
When I moved to Hugo with my website, I looked to optimise everything and implement new techniques. Once Safari gain native WebP support back in 2020, I implement WebP following PawelGrzybek.com - WebP and AVIF images on a Hugo website. The post introduced not only how to implement WebP (at the time when Hugo <0.83 haven’t support it), but also shown how to go step further by implementing AVIF.
This method require you to have WebP/AVIF files stored along with PNG/JPG and not relay on rendering them when the site is build.
I was interested in implementing this as well, but after some tests in my environment I decided not to, and here I will explain why (and it is not about browser compatibility — Safari incompatibility).
As the number of users increases, it is time to introduce speed limits in the network.
While I do not need this on my home router, in corporate use, it is worth knowing who and how much is using the connection and, if necessary, introducing appropriate restrictions.
First, you need to find out who, and then how much.
I like SAP Crystal Reports. Why? Because it helps gather the information needed and present them as I would like to, with just basic crystal reports design knowledge.
Since I migrated my personal blog to Hugo, I dusted off my knowledge for HTML and CSS. It’s like been back in 2008, with some extra magic available.
When WordPress starts been popular, I been using it on every project. Luckily, that’s not a case anymore.
For over a couple years my employers website been served from shared hosting solution on Namesco. On recent years however, we feel that we been left behind. It started with just PHP, where we stick with the 7.3 version without not plan to go into 7.4 and not thinking even with 8.0. Until significant issues with performance of the servers (where even Customer Support couldn’t help without persuading you to migrate to dedicated servers), it was time to think what’s next.
If you are looking for a good solution for emails and file storage for your business, independently how big or how small it is, the Microsoft 365 (was Office 365) is the best solution on the market. If you are not a big company, probably you don’t want to burden to many costs, the Microsoft 365 Business Basic (formerly Office 365 Essentials) is something that you shall look forward.
Even if your business is trying to migrate from on-premises Windows Server into the cloud, in most cases, you can achieve what you need for just £4.90 per month per user. The money well spent. Let me show you why.
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