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What does all this really mean?  A little over a year ago, our own server decided it wanted to take off for the holidays.  We lost both hard drives within a day leaving us with no emails in or out.  Our data although backed up was on a tape drive that was in our server so we could not really restore to another computer.  So as a result we moved to the cloud!

Our emails are now hosted remotely and available anywhere we have an internet connection.  We use www.RackSpace.com   but there are many other companies who offer these services.  Our server now performs a nightly backup to an external hard drive, and then Data Net, our IT Company, extracts the information and stores it on their servers for 30 days.
 

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Time maybe running out to maximize your jobs profits

Many contractors make the mistake of thinking of each job as an independent project-with a start and a stop.  As a result, they rarely take the time to analyze each job and assess the overall success of the business.  If you think of your projects as circular rather than linear, you will find effective ways to reduce costs and increase profits.

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