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About Us

For more than 15 years, Open Source Solutions’ computer support experts have been a reliable and affordable source of network troubleshooting and IT consulting services for small to medium sized businesses. Open Source Solutions offers phone support and remote troubleshooting for UNIX, Linux, and Windows environments anywhere in the United States. Our support staff has the experience to help you analyze and resolve network problems quickly and efficiently.

Remote Possibilities
Traditional delivery of IT support services to small businesses is based on the efforts of a local on-site consultant on whom a client company relies for virtually all network support.  This exclusively on-site model is fraught with problems due to the absence of a complementary remote support organization.  Many issues that could be resolved immediately via a skilled team of remote support engineers are often unnecessarily prolonged while waiting for a local consultant to show up in person.  The resulting losses in productivity are often compounded by a cost structure that typically requires minimum on-site bill times that can turn a 10-minute problem into a 2-hour expense.

Open Source Solutions’ business model of billing by the minute and charging only for service actually delivered allows Open Source Solutions’ remote support experts to solve hundreds of small problems daily at the lowest possible cost.  Further, the confidence of having ready access to a team of technical professionals opens the door to a new realm of powerful IT solutions that many small organizations might otherwise shy away from for fear of having inadequate support resources.

 

  • How We See Things

    Our goal is to help you realize your Open Source strategy. We have the experience and dedication needed to ensure your Open Source stack is efficient, stable and productive.

    Our philosophy is that your IT infrastructure shouldn't be a burden, it should be a differentiator. We participate in many Open Source projects and are dedicated to supporting Open Source, while realizing that current business needs sometimes necessitate the use of proprietary applications.

    We offer a variety of services and have the ability to implement, configure, support and optimize a wide assortment of Open Source technologies.

    Let Open Source Solutions bring your online presence to the next level.

Technology Development

Open Source Solutions' UNIX/Linux support services provide small to medium sized companies and developers assistance with managing and servicing UNIX and Linux networks that may coexist with Microsoft environments.

OSS provides your company the services of UNIX/Linux support professionals, certified Microsoft engineers, and security experts. This wide range of knowledge offers you a readily available one-stop source to assist you to create and maintain a safe and robust multi-vendor network and communications solution that blends Windows with leading variants of UNIX including:

  • Apple/Mac OS X

  • Red Hat

  • Fedora

  • CentOS

  • Ubuntu

  • Debian

  • Gentoo

  • FreeBSD

  • SCO

  • Suse

  • Mandriva




Technical Services

Here are a few of our services:


  • Remote server administration
  • Co-located/remote hosted server management
  • System troubleshooting & debugging
  • Network management (LAN/WAN)
  • Disaster recovery
  • Security auditing & hardening
  • Software installation & configuration
  • File & directory services, NFS
  • Kernel rebuilds & module management
  • Backup planning & implementation
  • Emergency support (24/7)
  • Internet Support & Management
  • SSL
  • Sendmail, Qmail, VpopMail, POP, IMAP
  • DNS-BIND (Bind8, Bind9, Balancing)
  • FTP, Virtual FTP servers (Proftp, WU)
  • Load Balancing/Clustering
  • OpenSSL-OpenSSH-Stunnel
  • Anti-Spam, Anti-Relay SPEWS-ORBS
  • IPtables-IPchains configure and tuning
  • DHCP & TCP/IP Management
  • IP Masquerading & NAT
  • LPR & Print services

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Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Open Source Solutions' Disaster Recovery Services and High Availability Technologies experts offer a broad range of services that can help small businesses to medium sized businesses create a viable business continuity plan and a highly fault-tolerant network environment by providing expertise in these critical practice areas:

  • Disaster Recovery Planning
  • 24x7 Internet Access
  • Failover Clustering
  • High Availability Load Balancing
  • Non-stop Data Centers
  • System Center Data Protection Manager Backup and Recovery Consulting and Support Services

  • For businesses of any size, network downtime is costly whether it is due to unexpected breakdowns or scheduled maintenance. Enterprise networks have for a long time utilized processes and technologies that minimize the chances of network failure, expedite the recovery process in case of a catastrophe, and eliminate maintenance-related downtime.

    For small businesses, however, disaster recovery planning, fault tolerant network architecture, and non-disruptive maintenance solutions have all seemed too expensive to implement and too complex to manage. This has changed.

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