Monitoring for SMBs: Know It’s Down Before Your Clients Do TL;DR : Your clients should never be the ones telling you about an outage. Uptime Kuma monitors your sites and services in five minutes. Zabbix goes further with server monitoring, trends, and capacit...
Local and Private AI for SMBs: Keep Your Data In-House with Ollama TL;DR : You can run AI models directly on a server in your office or at a local hosting provider. No data leaves your network. Ollama makes installation simple, Open WebUI provides a ChatGPT-like inte...
IT Onboarding and Offboarding: The Checklist That Prevents Security Gaps TL;DR : Every employee arrival and departure is a critical moment for your IT security. Without a checklist, active accounts get forgotten, onboarding stalls, and you're exposed to data leaks. Here ar...
Disaster Recovery Plan: Would Your SMB Survive a Crash Tomorrow Morning? TL;DR : Un plan de reprise après sinistre (PRA) définit comment votre organisation redémarre après un incident majeur. Pas besoin d'un document de 200 pages : identifiez vos systèmes critiques, fixez ...
The real cost of M365 vs a libre stack: an honest 5-year comparison TL;DR : For a 25-user SMB over 5 years, M365 Business Standard costs about $31,000 in licensing alone. A libre stack (Nextcloud + Odoo + self-hosted email) comes to about $19,000 all-in: servers, supp...
Odoo Community's CRM: ditch the Excel spreadsheet for tracking your prospects TL;DR : Odoo Community's CRM module replaces your prospect tracking spreadsheet with a visual kanban pipeline, a follow-up activity system, and native integration with quotes and invoicing. It's free,...
No more sticky notes: a password manager for your SMB TL;DR : A password manager is the single most impactful cybersecurity move for an SMB. Bitwarden (cloud) and Vaultwarden (self-hosted) offer an open, affordable, team-friendly solution. Here's what yo...
Odoo Community's Expenses Module: No More Paper, Excel Files, and Email Approvals TL;DR : Le module Dépenses d'Odoo Community permet de gérer les notes de frais de A à Z sans fichier Excel partagé ni approbations par courriel. Les employés soumettent leurs dépenses avec reçus, le g...
Giving away code and making a living: open source contribution models TL;DR: Free software is not an act of charity: it's a proven business model that generates billions. The global open source services market exceeded USD 38 billion in 2025 and is expected to reach 105...
Nextcloud for SMBs: Document Management, Scheduling & Collaboration Under Your Control TL;DR : Nextcloud is your Google Drive / Dropbox, but hosted by you (or by a Quebec-based host). Document management, calendars, contacts, collaborative editing: everything is consolidated in a single...
Zero knowledge, zero worry: sharing sensitive data without handing it to the cloud TL;DR: Zero-knowledge means sharing where the content is encrypted before it leaves your device : the server that hosts or transports it cannot read it. PrivateBin is ideal for sharing short, sensitiv...
Blue Fox Expands to New Zealand 🇳🇿 Blue Fox will be establishing in New Zealand 🇳🇿 later this year. And if we're sharing this here, it's mainly to say why : because we identify with a culture that values trust, pragmatism, respect, and...