Tag: sysadmin best practices

Sysadmin best practices are the habits that keep servers and IT systems stable year after year: regular updates, tested backups, least-privilege access, monitoring, documentation and change control. None of them is exciting, but together they prevent most outages and security incidents. Small companies often skip them until something fails, and then discover missing backups or undocumented passwords. Internet Solutions applies these practices when we install and maintain Linux and Windows servers and when we look after computers and networks under IT maintenance contracts. That includes network documentation, hardware inventory and software licence records, data backups and protection against intrusion and viruses. We introduce failure prevention and data protection step by step, lowering running costs and the risk of losses. The same discipline applies to the servers that host our clients’ websites and e-mail.