Five practical cybersecurity habits that small businesses can implement today โ no big budget required. Password managers, MFA, the 3-2-1 backup rule, patching, and phishing awareness.
Category: Best Practices
Guides, checklists, and best practices for business technology
What’s New on Shop Orting: Road Alerts, Cardinals Scores, Daily Puzzles and a Facebook Page
Shop Orting now has live road and emergency alerts, Orting Cardinals scores, daily puzzles, a self-running Facebook Page and new tools for business owners.
What’s New in the Rainier IT Client Portal: Automatic Updates, Device Pages, and What’s Coming Next
The Rainier IT Client Portal now schedules updates automatically, with device pages, an at-a-glance Overview, Bitwarden passwords and Ctrl+K search.
Shop Orting: How We Built a Free Directory for Every Business in Our Hometown
How Rainier IT built Shop Orting, a free directory, map and events calendar for every business in Orting, WA, on a hand-coded WordPress theme.
Lock Down SSH in 10 Minutes: A Hardening Checklist for Linux
Key-only auth, no root, a non-default port, fail2ban, and a workflow that won’t lock you out โ every box I run gets this same six-line hardening file.
Claude Code + the Karpathy Guidelines: A Saner AI Coding Workflow
How I install Anthropic’s Claude Code CLI plus the Superpowers and Karpathy-guidelines plugins from the marketplace โ and why this combination turns an LLM from helpful-looking autocomplete into a junior engineer who has read the handbook.
Introducing the Rainier IT Client Knowledge Base
Introducing our new customer knowledge baseโself-service guides, troubleshooting, and best practices available 24/7 at kb.rainier-it.com.
What Huntress EDR Actually Does
A non-technical (then technical) walkthrough of Huntress Managed EDR โ what it is, how it catches what antivirus misses, and the 2026 SMB breach numbers that explain why it ships on every plan.
โ๏ธ Self-Hosted Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana โ๏ธ
Set up a complete Prometheus + Grafana monitoring stack on your own Linux server in 10 minutes using Docker Compose.
โ Saturday Morning Coffee & IT Tips โ
Happy Saturday, South Pierce County! ๐๏ธ Quick question: When was the last time you tested your backup? Iโm serious. When was the last time you […]