NAS & Backup / 4 min
How to Improve NAS Speed and Performance
Improve QNAP and general NAS performance by finding the real bottleneck first, then tuning storage, network, SMB, port trunking, backup schedules, and…
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Practical IT Guides
Browse step-by-step guides across NAS, backup, networking, DNS, security, diagnostics, and everyday IT.
NAS & Backup / 6 min
How to Automate FortiGate Configuration Backups to Remote Storage
Automate FortiGate configuration backups to remote FTP storage using Automation Stitches, with QNAP as the example destination and practical security and recovery…
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DNS & Diagnostics / 2 min
Enable DNS over HTTPS on Your Browser to Enhance Security
In this guide, I’ll explain how to enable DNS over HTTPS on multiple browsers like Chrome and Safari. Essentially, enhancing...
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DNS & Diagnostics / 4 min
How to Change Your DNS Server on Your Device?
In this guide, I’ll discuss several ways to change the DNS server on your device, whether you have a Windows...
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NAS & Backup / 6 min
How to Secure a QNAP NAS: Practical Security Hardening Guide
Harden a QNAP NAS with account security, MFA, encryption, network restrictions, QuFirewall, Malware Remover, updates, snapshots, and tested backups.
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NAS & Backup / 6 min
What Is Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Why You Need One
Learn what a NAS is, how it works, the roles of RAID, SMB, NFS, backups and snapshots, and what to consider before…
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NAS & Backup / 4 min
How To Setup File Sharing and Collaboration on Your NAS
Introduction: In Business, whether it’s small or large scale, the need for file sharing and collaboration solutions is present. However,...
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Networking / 4 min
What Is IP PBX System: Features, Types and benefits
Introduction: In Most companies, Proper Internal Communications between employees are crucial, it increases productivity and makes it easier for employees...
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Networking / 2 min
Network Monitoring Tools and Software: Why Do You Need Them?
Introduction: There are alot of network Monitoring tools essentially allowing you to have more control over the traffic coming in...
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NAS & Backup / 5 min
Network File Sharing Explained: SMB, NFS, NAS, P2P and Cloud
Understand peer-to-peer, centralized, and cloud file sharing, including where SMB, NFS, NAS, FTP, and SFTP fit and when to use each.
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NAS & Backup / 6 min
How to Back Up a QNAP NAS to Amazon S3 with HBS 3
Copy QNAP NAS data to Amazon S3 with HBS 3, a least-privilege IAM user, sensible scheduling, version protection, and restore verification.
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DNS & Diagnostics / 4 min
How to Setup Dynamic DNS for your Home Network
Introduction: In this article, I will be discussing several ways that you can implement Dynamic DNS, and utilise it to...
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