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Choosing Email Hosting in Australia

September 18, 2025
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Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 2025, email remains the backbone of business communication. Whether you’re coordinating with clients, managing staff, or protecting your brand reputation, having a reliable, secure, and professional email system is essential. If you’re a small or medium business in Australia exploring options, this guide will help you make informed…

Introduction to Cloud Backup: Secure, Scalable, and Smart for Australian SMBs

September 4, 2025
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Reading Time: 3 minutesIn today’s digital-first world, the question for small and medium businesses isn’t if you should back up your data, but how, and securely. Whether it’s spreadsheets, client contacts, accounting records, or vital correspondence, losing data can mean the end of your business. Enter Velocity Host’s open source cloud backup…

Why Open Source Cloud Backups Deserve a Place in Your IT Strategy

August 18, 2025
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Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a world increasingly driven by digital data, backup solutions are essential, not just as a safeguard, but as a strategic asset for your business. While many businesses turn to commercial cloud backup services, open source cloud backups are gaining momentum thanks to their flexibility, cost savings, and transparency.…

Why Your Business Should Be Backing Up to the Cloud

August 4, 2025
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Reading Time: 3 minutesIn today’s digital-first world, data is one of your business’s most valuable assets—and one of the most vulnerable. Cyberattacks, accidental deletion, hardware failure, and even natural disasters can all wipe out of your critical data in an instant. That’s why cloud backup solutions for small business is no longer…

DAS vs NAS Which Attached Storage Is Right for My Business?

July 24, 2022
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Reading Time: 7 minutesWhat Storage Problem? I think we can all relate to working on a project and getting to that crucial part where we need to save or add more data only to find that we’ve run out of storage space. anyone who has used Photoshop knows the “Scratch Disk Full”…

WordPress Web Hosting in Australia – Why it’s essential

May 18, 2021
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Reading Time: 6 minutesWhat is Web Hosting? The short version – Web hosting is a service provided by a hosting provider that allows businesses or individuals to publish their website and content on the internet. Many content management systems (like Wix & Squarespace) provide their own managed hosting services, while the likes…

Cheap Email Hosting in Australia

April 24, 2021
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Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen we see the words CHEAP plastered across a product or service, we often write it off as low quality. The first Pineapple brought back to Europe sold for $7,500. Temples were built to honour this illustrious fruit, and it was so exclusive that only royalty could afford to…

Is Nextcloud the Best Zoom Alternative in 2022?

February 15, 2021
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Reading Time: 7 minutesNextcloud Vs Zoom Vs Microsoft Teams In 2021, webcam’s were one of the most sought after tech items. You would probably have had better luck climbing Mount Everest without an oxygen tank. Video conferencing experienced a surge in demand. In a world of self-isolation, it became the most critical…

Alternatives to Microsoft Office 365

February 14, 2021
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Reading Time: 3 minutesMicrosoft Office 365 Alternatives Microsoft has the biggest name in the business, especially when it comes to the Office productivity suite. With over 180 million monthly users it is hard to argue that Microsoft is a dominating force in the industry. The good news is that Office 365 is…

Free your data with TrueNAS (was FreeNAS) backup

February 13, 2021
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Reading Time: 12 minutesTrueNAS/FreeNAS UPDATE April 2021 TrueNAS 12.0 was released in late 2020, marking the end of the FreeNAS brand. iXsystems merged FreeNAS and TrueNAS backup into a unified platform for both free and enterprise offerings. This article still reflects the most current features. However, the merger with TrueNAS brings a…

Choosing Email Hosting in Australia

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 2025, email remains the backbone of business communication. Whether you’re coordinating with clients, managing staff, or protecting your brand reputation, having a reliable, secure, and professional email system is essential. If you’re a small or medium business in Australia exploring options, this guide will help you make informed…

Introduction to Cloud Backup: Secure, Scalable, and Smart for Australian SMBs

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn today’s digital-first world, the question for small and medium businesses isn’t if you should back up your data, but how, and securely. Whether it’s spreadsheets, client contacts, accounting records, or vital correspondence, losing data can mean the end of your business. Enter Velocity Host’s open source cloud backup…

Why Open Source Cloud Backups Deserve a Place in Your IT Strategy

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a world increasingly driven by digital data, backup solutions are essential, not just as a safeguard, but as a strategic asset for your business. While many businesses turn to commercial cloud backup services, open source cloud backups are gaining momentum thanks to their flexibility, cost savings, and transparency.…

Why Your Business Should Be Backing Up to the Cloud

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn today’s digital-first world, data is one of your business’s most valuable assets—and one of the most vulnerable. Cyberattacks, accidental deletion, hardware failure, and even natural disasters can all wipe out of your critical data in an instant. That’s why cloud backup solutions for small business is no longer…

What Are Spam Filters and How Do They Work?

Reading Time: 7 minutesSpam filters are applications that protect your data by identifying and blocking spam emails before they reach your inbox. They help ensure that you only receive the emails that matter – keeping your personal information safe and improving your productivity by reducing the number of spam emails in your…