
MattArtley.Online
MSP Pro of 15+ Years, Hosting and wordpress expert, DIY Electronics and Keyboard enthusiast
About Me
Technical Director, Nerd, Dad, Husband and still collecting titles…
Skills
| | Eletronic Device Repair |
| | Mac Support |
| | Firewalls and Routing (Cisco) |
| | Infrastructure / Cabling Install |
| | Home Cinema / AV Setup and Install |
| | WordPress |
| | VMWare Vsphere/ESXi |
| | Hosting |
| | IRIS / SAGE / Accountancy Support |
| | Autotask / Datto RMM |
| | SME Support |
| | Solution Architect / Network Design |
| | Firewalls and Routing (Non-Cisco) |
| | Microsoft: Anything |
| | Account Management |
Professional Portfolio Highlights
AJT Managed IT Services LTD
Technical Director, SME Start up
- Established 2019 by Russell Walker, Joined Feb 2020
- Grown to £1/mil turnover in 5 years
- support over 1500 end users
- support £1/bil organisations
- 5FTE staff + 2 PT Outsourced staff
- working towards ISO27001
BHAFC – Amex Stadium & TG
Network Redesign and Install
- During my Tenure at IT First, Delivered by Focus Group
- I designed the new public and corporate network
- Network to support 15000 users
- 1gb/s and 10gb/s internet lines
- NAC/PAC = Clearpass
- Management = Aruba Airwave
- Switches = All Aruba, ZL5400 and 2930F
- Over 100 new switches
- OSPF
- No-Downtime install and migration
Wave Leisure
Account Manager, Colo and Growth
- During my tenure at IT First
- Growth – 8 sites to 17
- New decentralised corporate network
- New diverse supplier WAN strategy
- No expensive comms
- Redundant and resiliant core network with multiple weighted routes for every production link
Blog
IONOS by 1&1 – Honest review
I have been hosting websites for over 10 years and i’ve worked with quite a few providers, and had quite a lot of different levels of “hosting”. Currently I have a few hosting contracts. I have quite a lot of shared hosting, but I’ve also just invested in a VPS – I’m concerned it’s going…
Sonicwall Gen 7 – Not fit for market
Throughout my career there has often been experiences which have left a bad taste in my mouth. Or clear demonstrations of bad customer service. My most recent, and still ongoing experience with SonicWall I think has put me off selling their stuff for life. I have worked at Gold, Silver and Registered partners. I’ve sold…
HPE Smart Path… Not very smart
HPE Smart Path may be causing you significant performance issues. You should turn this off if you aren’t using enterprise SSDs. If you build an array it will be on by default, it will bypass your cache and this could give you a significant performance impact. I have an RDS farm for 200 users. They…
LiteBringer
Got a bit interested in crypto, got a small wallet and read about LiteBringer and thought you’d give it a go? Me too! Here’s my thoughts, opinions and tips for LiteBringer Elevator pitch: If you play idle games on your phone, this might be the game for you – for the most part it is…