Could The Dog Days Of Summer Be A Threat To Your Business?

How To Ensure The Heat Doesn’t Fry Your Server
(And Your Profits!)

With the “dog days” of summer upon us, most business owners are looking for ways to keep their company’s sales and profits HOT, while keeping their IT expenses COOL. But if proper attention is not given to your server and network equipment during the summer, all that heat outside can actually bring your company’s growth to a grinding halt and increase your IT expenses significantly.

Excess heat can be a big problem for small to mid-sized business servers, since a server that becomes overheated usually costs more in energy, fails more often and is more likely to crash. For most companies, a server crash can mean hours or days of downtime, unproductive employees, HUGE amounts of stress and thousands of dollars in lost opportunity.

7 Steps Every Business Owner Must Take To  Prevent a Heat-Induced Server Crash

Here are a few simple things you can do to prevent your server and network equipment from overheating and crashing this summer:

  1. Tidy up the server room; a neater room will increase airflow.
  2. Keep the doors to the server room closed and seal off the space.
  3. Make sure cold air reaches all the equipment.
  4. Have a redundant A/C unit that is specifically designed for computers.
  5. Buy a rack enclosure where the cooling is built into the bottom of the rack.
  6. Keep the temperature at no more than 77 degrees Fahrenheit.
  7. Consider virtualization or cloud computing so that you are generating a lower amount of heat in the first place.

Protect Your Server And Network Equipment From Frying!

For free, we’ll come to your office and…

  • Audit the location and condition of your server and network equipment to ensure that they are protected against the elements.
  • Check your computer network’s security settings to make sure you are protected from the latest hacker attacks, worms and viruses.
  • Check your data backup system to ensure it is working properly and accurately backing up all of the critical files and information you never want to lose.
  • Verify that you have the most up-to-date security patches installed properly; miss one critical update and you’re a “sitting duck.”
  • Diagnose slow, unstable computers.

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The single greatest benefit that comes when working with Summit IT Services is that they take care of EVERYTHING. I do not have to worry about day-to-day maintenance because they know what they are doing. Business continuity is a huge thing at our company, so keeping our computers up to date is a must. Plus, they make sure our technology complies with our needs!

Summit is very diligent when it comes to taking care of any problems and stays on top of exactly what we need as a company so that there are no issues in the future. We would never use anyone else!

Lori Roy Owner
Pearce Jewelers
West Lebanon, NH

They Changed Our World!

We had a legacy server system at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center. It crashed, the back-up system failed, and we lost three months’ worth of work. We were very discouraged, when a member of our Board of Directors recommended, we contact Summit IT Services.

They changed our world! Our server is now in the cloud, with consistent and reliable daily back-ups. Our staff can access our files and data from anywhere – and we had no idea what a lifesaver that would turn out to be for us when the pandemic hit and we had to move a lot of our work offsite.

Rather than just look at the problem we had with our server, Summit looked at our needs comprehensively, and helped us identify resources that could move our organization forward. We now easily share files through Microsoft 365, we have reliable phone and internet service utilizing fiberoptics, reliable WiFi throughout our 45,000-square-foot facility, up-to-date computer security and operating systems. And the Summit Team is always patient and responsive when we call on them for support.

We also count Summit IT Services among our generous supporters. Summit’s support helps us serve our community more effectively and seamlessly. Thank you, Summit!

Jeanne T. Gerulskis Executive Director
McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center
Concord, NH