In-House Cloud Services in Port Charlotte

Port Charlotte Cloud Services By Vontainment

Vontainment’s got a whole toolbox ready for you. From keeping your projects on track, managing your finances, to making sure your team’s on the same page (hello, chat systems!), they’ve got an app for almost everything. And it doesn’t stop there. They’re also all about helping you with the nitty-gritty tech stuff like webservers, containerization (think of it as packing your app for a trip so it can run anywhere), and virtualization (creating digital twins of computers, servers, you name it).

Bottom line? Vontainment’s mission is to empower small businesses in SW Florida to harness the Cloud’s potential. Whether you’re diving into web apps, figuring out webservers, exploring containerization, or venturing into virtualization, they’re ready to guide you through. It’s all about boosting productivity and streamlining operations, with a little help from your friends at Vontainment.

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Secure Apps And Systems On You LAN

A proxy server is a go‑between or intermediary server that forwards requests for content from multiple clients to different servers across the Internet. A reverse proxy server is a type of proxy server that typically sits behind the firewall in a private network and directs client requests to the appropriate backend server. A reverse proxy provides an additional level of abstraction and control to ensure the smooth flow of network traffic between clients and servers.

Common uses for a reverse proxy server include:

• Load balancing – A reverse proxy server can act as a “traffic cop,” sitting in front of your backend servers and distributing client requests across a group of servers in a manner that maximizes speed and capacity utilization while ensuring no one server is overloaded, which can degrade performance. If a server goes down, the load balancer redirects traffic to the remaining online servers.
• Web acceleration – Reverse proxies can compress inbound and outbound data, as well as cache commonly requested content, both of which speed up the flow of traffic between clients and servers. They can also perform additional tasks such as SSL encryption to take the load off of your web servers, thereby boosting their performance.
• Security and anonymity – By intercepting requests headed for your backend servers, a reverse proxy server protects their identities and acts as an additional defense against security attacks. It also ensures that multiple servers can be accessed from a single record locator or URL regardless of the structure of your local area network.

This is a great tool for any business running self-hosted web applications, remote work systems, or intranets. It can enhance cybersecurity by hiding vulnerable services from direct outside contact. They can be used to host local web applications under a domain or subdomain with full end-to-end encryption. Meaning even if there is a network intruder they can’t read the data.

Enhance Cyber Security With Advanced Firewalls

Network firewalls are security devices used to stop or mitigate unauthorized access to private networks connected to the Internet, especially intranets. The only traffic allowed on the network is defined via firewall policies – any other traffic attempting to access the network is blocked. Network firewalls sit at the front line of a network, acting as a communications liaison between internal and external devices.

A network firewall can be configured so that any data entering or exiting the network has to pass through it – it accomplishes this by examining each incoming message and rejecting those that fail to meet the defined security criteria. When properly configured, a firewall allows users to access any of the resources they need while simultaneously keeping out unwanted users, hackers, viruses, worms, or other malicious programs trying to access the protected network.

There are very affordable options for small businesses. Using a good edge router to protect your network, set up secure segregated guest wifi, quality of service, and other network enhancements.

Local DNS Servers Can Provide Faster, Safer Internet

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical and decentralized naming system for computers, services, or other resources connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities. Most prominently, it translates more readily memorized domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for locating and identifying computer services and devices with the underlying network protocols. 

By hosting a DNS server on your local network, We can prevent access to dangerous or inappropriate sites by employees or guests. Using lists maintained by cybersecurity companies your server can automatically block the IPs of botnets and malicious software.

On a local network, we are able to map a regular domain name and/or subdomains to your server(s). With external access from the internet optional. For external access, the domain must be obtained from a register like any website’s domain. If it is intended for local use, we can make it anything. Anything or xxx.anything.anything. Though it can’t match a real domain that you intend to visit like amazon.com as it would block access to that website.

Local domains come in handy as you get to your cloud services by domain vs ip. Your team project management system could be at projects.domain.lan and your network file storage at files.domain.lan.

We are able to set up firewalls and routing tables that will block anyone from bypassing your DNS server. We are also able to implement DoH and DoT (DNS over HTTPs & DNS over TLS). This blocks the ability of any hackers or even your ISP from seeing what websites you request. Combined with the fact most websites are HTTPs enabled, no one could see your request (DNS) and no one could read your data stream (HTTPs). Giving you security and privacy.

Remote Access That Is Fast And Secure

We can set up any type of VPN you design including OpenVPN; one of the best know and most used. As well as our favorite options. IKEv2 works on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android without any extra software by means of OS native settings.

Our other favorite is Wire Guard. It is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. A VPN that aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPsec/IKEv2. It is considerably more performant than OpenVPN. Wire Guard is designed as a general-purpose VPN for running on embedded interfaces and super computers alike. Initially released for the Linux kernel, it is now cross-platform (Windows, macOS, BSD, iOS, Android). It is currently under heavy development, but already it is regarded as the most secure, easiest to use, and simplest VPN solution in the industry.

Apps and services that will mostly be used on location, and/or used lightly from remote locations. Services that are accessed remotely but do not involve heavy bandwidth-intensive traffic. Services such as video conferencing if used to communicate with clients or others outside your LAN should be cloud-hosted. File management and storage solutions work in both remote and cloud-hosted settings. Though based on the Number of users, Frequency of use, types, and sizes of files, and other variables can affect performance not just of the file service but of your business’s network. File services should be decided on a case-by-case basis on whether they can be local or should be remotely hosted.

Where file security is of overwhelming concern alternative file solutions that do not sync files can be used. Without sync you can avoid issues on your LAN but allow you to store files encrypted and on-premise.

Vontainment Has Always Been About Security First!

Every website we make uses HTTPS:// for SEO as well as security and includes the following security features:

• Software firewall & antivirus. Prevents hackers, if any malware or hacks are successful and site files are changed the antivirus immediately restores the website’s original files and the firewall blocks the hacker.
• We use the free tier of https://cloudflare.com on all our sites to speed uploading, make sure uptime is 100%, prevent over 10 types of attacks, and adds a second physical firewall between the site and any possible hackers. (mattering on clients’ needs we may suggest a paid tier, but their free plan is best for most small or medium businesses.)
• All code is optimized, kept updated, cleaned, patched, and secured to the best of our abilities (And our abilities are a lot) We take pride in security.
• All sites are backed up twice daily as the last resort if all else failed.

If You’re Looking To Make The Internet Part of Your Business

Let Vontainment help you, it just starts with a call or an email. We can discuss some of your wants, needs, desires, and options. Come set up an appointment for a consultation and come see us or we can come to see you. Let us take your business and website to the next level with cloud services that you can trust and control.