Dentists recommend ongoing dental care that includes daily preventive hygiene and regular office visits for all of their patients. But do you apply this same approach to maintaining your significant investment in technology?
Proper support and maintenance will avoid technical problems that disrupt your practice. computerHABITS provides on-site and remote IT support, troubleshooting and routine maintenance services to keep your practice running smoothly 24/7.
Proactive Server Maintenance
Since your server is such an integral part of your network, it’s important that you work with an expert to ensure it’s maintained. In the same way that you regularly maintain your car, your server needs regular maintenance too (although, definitely not as much as your car). Some recommendations include:
Computer Security
- Make sure your server is updated with the latest patches for its operating systems.
- Ensure your server’s firewall is properly configured to be as secure as it needs to be.
- Your anti-virus and other software need to be updated on a daily (if not more frequent) basis.
Computer Hardware
- A server with low hard disk space is a slow and progressively unresponsive server. Make sure your server has plenty of hard disk space.
- Your server’s RAM is very important. You can almost never have too much. If you don’t have enough memory access you server’s response time is going to be slow and become unstable.
Remote Maintenance
Remote monitoring, diagnostics, and maintenance are largely invisible, occurring “behind the scenes” or after hours. But it can also be an interactive tool for a client that needs immediate assistance and can not wait for an engineer to come on-site. The speed at which ComputerHABITS is able to respond is a key benefit to our clients.
Furthermore, remote maintenance activities can also have substantial preventive value. Frequent monitoring of backups and server function can prevent a loss of data in the event of a catastrophe.
