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The Bus Factor of a Five-Person Business
Software teams count how many people could vanish before the work stops. In most small businesses the answer is one - and it’s usually the owner.
2026-10-08 · 4 min readPerspectiveThe Thirty-Minute Fire Drill
Stadiums rehearse their bad days; most small businesses never practise anything. Four scenarios, thirty minutes, a coffee - and a list of what would break.
2026-10-01 · 4 min readPerspectiveLocked Out of Your Own Business
No attacker required: a suspended account and a recovery email pointing at a dead mailbox will close your business. Know the way back in before you need it.
2026-09-24 · 4 min readLatest Articles
52 articles · View allBusiness continuity for small business: keeping trading when something breaks
A business continuity plan for a small business is a few pages, not a binder. What to protect, how to test your backups, and how to get a second way online.
Free website speed test tools (and how to read them)
Test your site speed free in 2 minutes with PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix and WebPageTest - and learn the 3 numbers that actually matter.
Why Are My Emails Going to Spam? SPF, DKIM and DMARC
Emails land in spam when SPF, DKIM and DMARC are missing or broken. In our June 2026 baseline, only 43% of Australian small-business domains enforce DMARC. Here’s the fix order.
Why is your small business website slow?
The plain-English layer you read after a speed test: the 4 real reasons a small-business site is slow, which to fix yourself, and which to hand over.
DNS records explained simply: a plain-English guide for small business
A plain-English tour of the DNS records that matter to an Australian small business: A, MX, SPF, DMARC, CAA and DNSSEC. 98% of SMB domains run no DNSSEC.
Do you actually need DNSSEC? A 5-minute decision and setup guide for Australian small businesses
DNSSEC is off by default on virtually every Australian small-business domain. Who actually needs it, how to decide, and the 5-minute registrar steps to switch it on.