https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/Recent content on MCT SystemsHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/systems/networks/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/systems/networks/What I build Coverage first. Access points placed where people and devices actually are, wired back to a switch rather than daisy-chained over the air. A wired backbone for the things that must not drop: the server, the cameras, the phone system, the desk that takes payments. Separate lanes (VLANs) for guests, cameras, work and the house — so a visitor’s laptop cannot see the point of sale, and a camera cannot see anything but its recorder.https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/systems/starlink/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/systems/starlink/What I build Placement and mounting with the obstruction map actually checked, not guessed. Your own router behind the dish. The Starlink router goes into bypass mode and a real firewall takes over, so the network on this site’s Networks page is possible at all. A second uplink for failover where it matters: a cellular modem or a hotspot that takes over automatically, and hands back when Starlink returns. The quirks handled up front.https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/systems/servers/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/systems/servers/What I build A modest, reliable machine — often refurbished business hardware, sometimes a small purpose-built box — sized for what you actually do, with room to grow and a spare disk in the drawer. Linux, running services in containers, each one named, each one documented, each one restartable without me. The services people actually rent today: shared files, photos, calendars and contacts (see Private cloud), a phone system that answers on the premises, camera recording that stays on your disk, home or building automation that does not need a vendor’s app.https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/systems/backups/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/systems/backups/What I build The three-copy rule. The live data, a copy on site on separate hardware, and a copy off site. Losing any one of them is an inconvenience, not a loss. Nightly, automatic, and quiet when it works — and loud when it doesn’t. A backup that fails silently is the one you find out about on the worst day. Verified by restoring. A backup job saying “success” is a receipt.https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/systems/private-cloud/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/systems/private-cloud/What I build A private cloud server on the machine described under Servers: files, photo backup from phones, calendars, contacts, shared folders, and messaging for the people who work there. Every device synced — phones, laptops, the desk computer — with the same accounts you already understand. Reachable from anywhere through an encrypted tunnel, so you can open a file from the road without exposing the server to the internet. Your own domain for it, if you want one, so the address is yours and moves with you.https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/systems/continuity/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/systems/continuity/What I build An honest list of dependencies. Every service you rely on, and what happens to you when each one goes away. Most people are surprised by this list. It is the most useful thing the assessment produces. Local versions of the things you can’t be without: name resolution, files, calendars, the phone system, camera recording, guest sign-in — everything on this site is chosen because it can run without the outside world.https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/systems/monitoring/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/systems/monitoring/What I build Watching the right things. Disk space before it runs out. The backup that did not run last night. The certificate that expires next month. The job that quietly stopped running three weeks ago — silence is the commonest failure in small systems, and it is the one most monitoring never catches. A heartbeat for scheduled work. Each job reports when it runs; the alert fires when a report is missing, not when something crashes.https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/systems/small-business-property/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/systems/small-business-property/What a build usually includes The network — coverage, a wired backbone, separate lanes for guests, cameras and work. See Networks. Guest Wi-Fi with a sign-in page that lives on the premises: no password to hand out, a time limit, and a page you control. Cameras that record locally, on a disk in your building, with remote viewing through a tunnel rather than a vendor’s cloud. A phone line answered on the premises — a small phone system that keeps ringing extensions inside the building when the internet is out, with voicemail that stays yours.https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/about/Three names, one person My Computer Therapy fixes. Computer help that comes to you — slow machines, dead Wi-Fi, printers, passwords, data moved safely. That is the kitchen-table practice, and it is where most people first meet me. MCT Systems builds. This site. Networks, Starlink, servers, backups, private cloud, continuity and monitoring — designed and built for clients who need their infrastructure to keep making sense when the internet doesn’t.https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/contact/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/contact/Phone 808-647-2304 — call or text. This is the same line as My Computer Therapy; I answer both. Email aloha@mycomputertherapy.com — good for anything with detail in it. Assessment request The assessment form asks four things and lands in the same inbox. Use it if you would rather write it down first. Where Remote design, monitoring and support from anywhere. On-site work by arrangement. What I won’t do with your message It goes to my inbox and nowhere else.https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/process/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/process/1. A conversation Twenty or thirty minutes by phone or email. You tell me what you have and what worries you; I tell you honestly whether this is a systems project or a house call. If it is a house call — a slow laptop, a printer, a password — I will point you at My Computer Therapy — that is faster and cheaper for you. 2. An assessment I look at what is actually there: every device, every service you depend on, every place where one failure would stop you.https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/privacy/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/privacy/What this site does No analytics, no advertising, no third-party scripts. The pages are static files served from a server I run. Nothing on them loads from anyone else. No cookies. There is nothing to set one for. The assessment form sends what you type — your name, a way to reach you, and your message — to a mail handler I run, which delivers it to my inbox. Your name and contact are kept as a contact record so that I can reply.https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/assessment/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://systems.mycomputertherapy.com/assessment/What happens after you send this I read it myself and get back to you to set up a short conversation — phone or email, whichever you gave me. You and I talk for twenty or thirty minutes about what you have and what worries you. If what you need is really a house call, I say so and point you at My Computer Therapy. If an assessment makes sense, I quote a fixed price for it before I start.