IT Consulting for your Small Office and Home Business
Butch Adams 912-8824

Serving Virginia’s Roanoke Valley

Small Office / Home Office

The perfect time to get your IT resources set up using best practices is while you are small. As you add employees and computers for them to use, the complexity of managing your  equipment and your intellectual property increases.

The earlier you plan the easier it is to:

• set up and mange your new users
• manage your documents and other files
• set up remote access
• be confident that you can recover from a disaster
• know you have the latest updates
• keep employees productive

Purchasing equipment that will last more than five years instead of buying low end equipment saves money in the long run. Consider that:

• You get to depreciate your hardware over a longer period of time
• You get the benefit of longer warranties
• It will perform at a higher level than “bargain” equipment. 

It is never too soon to get serious about your IT policies and practices! A little work now will save a lot of headaches later. Let’s get together and get organized.

Web Hosting

Economical pricing with a personal touch

Starting at just $15 a year you can host your basic website on world class equipment and enjoy outstanding personal service. If you are in the Roanoke, Va area, I can even walk you through your new tools and resources in person.

Blog

Here my most recent tips, tricks and comments on IT for the SOHO.

• Should My Computer Run All The Time?
  It's time to rethink the wisdom behind leaving our computers on all the time. Here's a few reasons why.
  
  
• What is RSS?
  Are you following several websites and discussions? Is it getting a little tedious to remember where all your sites are? What about the mix of frequently and infrequently updated sites? RSS might be a simple solution. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It is nothing more than a different, standardized format for the web content that you already [...]
  
  
• Manage Add-Ons
  Previously I covered managing the toolbars that you might have accumulated over time. The same programs that load you up with toolbars will also put Add-Ons into IE.  Usually they do it without even asking you. If you can’t figure out why you have strange pop-ups and other uninvited activity, the Add-On manager is one place to look. [...]