Guides
Our guides to help you make informed decisions
Objective comparisons, written for business leaders who are not IT specialists. Every figure is sourced at the bottom of the page; our advice is clearly marked as such. New guides are added regularly, organised by topic.
Three families: Cybersecurity · Managed services · Architectures
Cybersecurity
Having your systems audited, protecting your email and accounts.
Audit, scan or penetration test
The ANSSI definitions and what the report should contain.
SPF, DKIM and DMARC
Stop your domain being spoofed and make sure your emails get through.
Administrator accounts and two-factor authentication
The essential rules for an SME.
Managed IT services
Choosing and switching provider, upgrading your systems and tools.
Choosing a managed IT provider
The questions to ask before you sign.
Changing IT provider
Access, domain names, email, documentation.
End-of-support systems
Workstations and servers, Windows and Linux: update, migrate or isolate.
Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace
What the recycle bin recovers, and what it erases.
Architectures
Hosting, moving and extending the life of your servers.
Where should you host your servers?
Physical, virtualised, private cloud, AWS or Azure.
Migrating your servers
From one machine, host or country to another.
Keeping an obsolete system
Risks, options and good practice.
Acceptable downtime and data loss
A management decision, and its effect on your servers.
Backup: why it is vital
Five questions, and when to hand over.
Backup and restoration: the reference site is WeDoBack
Backup, restoration and business recovery are WeDoBack’s core business, which it operates for our clients. Its guides are the reference on these topics:
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