Tag Archives: Technology Explained

Straightforward explanations of complex IT concepts, helping small businesses understand technology without the jargon.

To SIEM Or Not To SIEM? Wazuh Is the Question

To Siem Or Not To Siem

“To SIEM, or not to SIEM? Wazuh is the question.” If William Shakespeare had traded his quill for a keyboard and found himself managing IT Infrastructure for a living instead of writing beautiful sonnets, I suspect this would have been his opening line. Modern IT environments whether in a growing small business, or a complex […]

How to Install Nginx Proxy Manager with Portainer

How To Install Nginx

If you’re running services on a home server, VPS, or self-hosted environment, one of the first problems you’ll encounter is how to access everything cleanly and securely from the internet. You might start by accessing services through IP addresses and ports like: http://192.168.1.10:3000 http://192.168.1.10:8080 http://192.168.1.10:8123 This works at first, but it quickly becomes messy, hard […]

History of Programming: COBOL, BASIC, C, Python & Beyond

The History Of Computer Programming Languages

Modern life is powered by software. Every smartphone app, banking system, website, satellite navigation system, and online service relies on programming languages. These languages act as the bridge between human thought and machine execution, allowing programmers to instruct computers to carry out complex operations with precision. However, programming languages did not appear fully formed. They […]

Portainer A Simple But Powerful Way To Manage Docker

Portainer

Containerisation has fundamentally changed the way software is deployed and maintained. In the past, installing applications often required manually configuring operating systems, installing libraries, and resolving dependency conflicts. This process could vary from one machine to another, leading to the well-known problem of software that works on one system but fails on another. Tools such […]