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This is the follow up to my last article in which I promised to walk you through how to build your own small scale data-center for you Small Business. For our first part of the project we will start by building a simple but very robust hardware firewall running a Free BSD(Unix) operating system, called PfSense that can be deployed in less than an hour for the basic configuration. For this example this is the hardware I will be using an old Dell Dimension L866r pictured below ( yes a white Dell!). The reason that

It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted but in my defense I’ve been busy with work and some project for a couple of clients not to mention school. Well let’s get down to it.
I’ve been doing a few deployments for small businesses for people like me who do their day to day business administration from their house. In addition I have been doing some smaller deployments of windows boxes. The biggest complaint from customers is the cost of licensing, since each computer running windows requires it’s own license to be considered legal even if you are using a single image for all of them. Typically I include the batch licenses in the over all price of that the customer is billed, however this is sometimes make customers uncomfortable about the price of the project.