You’re managing a mission-critical server—maybe it’s a client’s phone system, a surveillance NVR, or a production database. When that server locks up or hits a blue screen, no problem. You’ve got a KVM attached. Pull it up, troubleshoot, maybe power cycle, and you’re back online. But what happens when your internet connection dies? What if the network itself goes down? …
UniFi Network Masterclass – Design, Deploy, and Master UniFi!
We Made a UniFi Network Course! You want to really understand UniFi networking — not just copy settings from random YouTube videos, but actually know what you’re doing when you design and deploy these systems. Well, David Barger and I built something specifically for that. Let me tell you about it. What Is the UniFi Network Masterclass? The UniFi Network …
Why I’d Never Trust 3CX With My Customers’ Phone Systems
I don’t write posts like this very often. When I call out a company by name, it’s because I think people need to hear it — partners, business owners, IT pros who are about to make a decision they might regret. So let me be direct. I would never trust 3CX with my customers’ phone systems. Not today, not tomorrow. …
RingCentral vs. Crosstalk Cloud PBX: The Real Cost Comparison
If you’re paying for RingCentral right now, I need you to do something. Pull up your latest invoice. Look at the total. Now ask yourself: do you actually know what you’re paying for? Because there’s a very good chance you’re overpaying — and I mean significantly overpaying — for your business phone system. And if you’ve ever tried to leave …
Introducing UI Toolkit: A Free, Open-Source Dashboard for Your UniFi Network
I’ve been running UniFi networks for clients and in my own home lab for years now. And while UniFi OS is great, there are some things I’ve always wanted that it just doesn’t do out of the box. So I built them into the UI Toolkit. UI Toolkit is a free, open-source web application that sits alongside your UniFi controller …
Network Flyer
Here is a free version of a network flyer that you’re free to download and copy! NETWORKING FLYER Best of luck landing clients!
Uptime Kuma – Complete Setup Guide on Digital Ocean with Docker
Uptime Kuma is a free open source monitoring tool and notification engine to keep you informed about your critical servers and services. In this post, I will perform a complete setup of Uptime Kuma on Digital Ocean with Docker, and we’ll tighten it down for security. Let’s get started! Part 1 – Server Setup For this tutorial, we’re going to …
Easy! Install UniFi OS Server on a Raspberry Pi
UniFi OS Server is self-hosted UniFi Network that can run on a Raspberry Pi! This is a step-by-step guide that walks you through the process – perfect for home networks or lab environments where you want full control over UniFi gear like access points and switches. I used a Raspberry Pi 5 w/8GB of RAM + a 128GB microSD card …
Complete UniFi OS Server Installation on Linux: Best Practices!
Ubiquiti recently released UniFi OS Server for managed service providers (MSPs) and power users looking to self-host their own UniFi controllers. Think of it as the next-generation hosted UniFi controller with a fully supported UniFi OS experience. In this post, I’ll walk you through the full setup process on a Linux-based cloud server, from deployment to securing it with SSL …
Run Your Own ChatGPT Locally for Free!
In this post I’m going to show you just how easy it is to have local large language models, or LLM’s, also known as AI, running on your own Windows PC – for free. Basically it’s like having a local copy of ChatGPT, but you can also pick and choose from tons of different AI models such as Meta’s Llama, …