File Sharing SaaS Solutions & Your Data: Considerations for Business Use

Posted on by Justin Worrell

There's a lot to like about file sharing SaaS apps like Dropbox. Why? They are super simple to use They enable "anywhere" access The cost typically scales with the number of users/no large upfront Support and maintenance need is typically pretty low This makes these types of solutions ideal for startups and small companies.  However, … Continue reading File Sharing SaaS Solutions & Your Data: Considerations for Business Use

Filtering Security Event Logs with Powershell

Posted on by Justin Worrell

If you've ever had to dig through Windows security event log for a specific event, you know it's a bit of a pain.  Fortunately, you can speed up your search with Powershell's get-eventlog cmdlet. Let's look at filtering the security logs to see who has logged on to a computer. The Event ID for a … Continue reading Filtering Security Event Logs with Powershell

Backing up files from a Windows Instance to S3.

Posted on by Justin Worrell

Part of a backup strategy in AWS could involve file-level backups.  As S3 storage is cheaper than EBS volumes, it could make sense to store your files in S3. A possible way to go about this would be to use a utility like Duplicati to backup files to an S3 bucket. Another method is with … Continue reading Backing up files from a Windows Instance to S3.

Autoscaling to One: A High Availability Technique

Posted on by Justin Worrell

There are certain types of servers that you'd desire to have highly available, but the cost of running multiple servers would be a bit impractical. In our scenario, we'll setup a management instance behind a load balancer. The instance will be part of an auto scaling group, which will lauch a new instance in the … Continue reading Autoscaling to One: A High Availability Technique