What is a VPN? How Does it Help Me?
A VPN, or a Virtual Private Network, is exactly how it sounds! In its essence, a VPN helps you create a secure and private connection between your computer or device and another network over the Internet. It uses encryption and other technologies to help you ensure that your Internet activity is safe from hackers and […]
What is a Private Cloud and What Are The Benefits?
Before we dig into the details of a private cloud, let’s look at general cloud hosting and what it can do. General cloud hosting enables you to create servers quickly, resize them as you need, copy and scale-out identical copies, and move them around. In a general cloud environment, you or your business is being […]
Top 5 Technology Trends in 2020
If we have gained anything from 2020, it is the knowledge that things can change at the drop of a hat. At this point, I’m sure that we are all ready for 2021 and what it has in store. Looking back at the year, we can see how things not only changed socially, but they […]
How Do I Promote My Podcast?
You started a podcast. Now you’re wondering how you’re supposed to promote it. How do you grow your podcast, gain more followers and become podcast famous? Well, I can’t guarantee you will be a famous podcaster right away, but including these tactics into your marketing strategy will help you get there. I’m getting ahead of […]
We are upgrading the reliability and redundancy of our network
Understanding that high network reliability is the lifeblood of our clients, we are implementing network upgrades in a series of maintenance windows starting this August and lasting through September 2018. Why more than one maintenance window? Best practice mandates minimizing introducing too many variables at one time. In fact, over the past two decades, Hostirian […]
Subnet Cheat Sheet
IPv4 Subnet Mask Cheat Sheet Addresses Netmask Amount of a Class C /31 2 255.255.255.254 1/128 /30 4 255.255.255.252 1/64 /29 8 255.255.255.248 1/32 /28 16 255.255.255.240 1/16 /27 32 255.255.255.224 1/8 /26 64 255.255.255.192 1/4 /25 128 255.255.255.128 1/2 /24 256 255.255.255.0 1 /23 512 255.255.254.0 2 /22 1024 255.255.252.0 4 /21 2048 255.255.248.0 […]