Techretaries Featured Client:
Daniel Garcia, Creative Director, Yes Boss
“Techretaries has always gone above and beyond with their service whether it’s support for a new server, data backup, or building a website. Tanya has kept our systems running smoothly for several years now.”
The Story:
Over the years, Daniel Garcia has thrown many technical challenges our way. Yes Boss’s work is creatively challenging and they don’t have time to mess around with technical issues (who does?). The first adventure was to archive several cardboard boxes filled with hard-drives and paper spreadsheet lists. The second was to migrate their Cargo Collective website, which they had outgrown, to a more flexible platform that matched their rebrand. And the latest initiative was to create a small network so everyone could share creative assets and rely less on hard-drives.
We used Chronosync to consolidate and mirror hard-drives and cataloged each with Neofinder, so he could get away from those spreadsheets. The great thing about Neofinder, besides the fact that it’s been around in some form since 1996. It is capable of cataloging projects across multiple hard-drives and the storage space specs all in one interface. Neofinder also catalogs hard drive contents to avoid unplugging and replugging drives.
The website rebrand was done on WordPress.
And, since video media is the main focus for Yes Boss, we created video slideshow galleries that pulled videos directly from Vimeo to save time and space on the website. Our favorite part of the dev was making the Yes Boss logo change to one of five logo characters on refresh. So fresh!
As Yes Boss occupies the entire third floor of an old Victorian house, the latest endeavor was a network. We installed a QNAP server with easy to use interface, used their existing G-RAID hard-drive for local backup. We also connected the workstations through Thunderbolt and Ethernet and implemented CrashPlan as cloud backup. The beauty of a QNAP with Thunderbolt and Ethernet is you can directly connect and share. This step eliminated the need for a switch entirely. We also bought new Cat7 cables to give their Wifi a boost. All the while being offered copious amounts of sparkling water and playing gypsy jazz at full volume.
Though Daniel is DIY and super tech savvy, we continue to support their server and backup whenever problems are complex beyond his ability.
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