Flamingo Blog.

A broadcast storm is a Layer 2 loop that lets broadcast frames circle forever and takes a whole office offline at once. Here is what causes one in a small office, how to find the loop in the first ten minutes, and the switch settings that stop the next one.

Small office network design, decision by decision: internet sizing and failover, the edge firewall, five-VLAN segmentation, the IP plan, Cat6A and PoE budgets, Wi-Fi placement, redundancy and power, remote access, monitoring and documentation, with a 25-line checklist.

Proactive vs reactive IT from both sides of the invoice: how break-fix and flat-fee models get paid, what proactive work looks like week to week, and how to move a client from one to the other.

What a small business needs to back up, image vs file backup, cloud vs local, immutability against ransomware, how backup is priced, and a buying checklist to use before you sign.