We DESIGN & BUILD your website with you and can MAINTAIN & Monitor your website for you.

We are driven to provide the best services and products we can. We specifically aim our efforts toward small businesses.

In today's marketplace, most small businesses are actually expected to have a website.

So, do you have a website, is it effective? Are you proud of your site and suggest that your customers look at it?

Your website should be another storefront for your business. Is your current website working for you?

Maybe, you just need to refresh your current site?

How much business or respect are you losing by not having a website? Difficult to know but easy to fix.

We can help you with all the processes to create your entire website; all in one place, and you can get started with a single call.

Contact Us with a question about creating a store front displaying your products or service. We can also do over your current site with a new and fresh look. We can maintain your current site with you.

To learn more, just continue to the next page and I′ll explain the next steps.

We are local, real, and committed to quality business. We live and work in Wahoo, NE, on our 40 acre farm.

Our primary business goal is to provide a valuable website for all the small business owners, in the general Saunders and Lancaster areas, at a reasonable rate and turn-around time.

We always include a 100% guarantee on our work. Small changes are free for the first year. We provide portable code that can be hosted anywhere. It is always your site and you always have the final word. We promise rapid turn around and a modern site creation that says who you are.

We are not just another simple template–driven site. All of our designs are original using state-of-the-art development tools. All of this lets me create fully standards–compliant sites; your customers seeing what you expect them to see.

We do the work for you and with you. You can afford a good and value–added site. We work with you and within your budget.

Why the phrase "Media Specialties"? We have expertise in website design, website development, photography, data, networking, and combining these to suit your needs.

So, what problem can I help you solve today?

A little info about Paul M. Hill – Wahoo, NE

Family time is always first.

US Navy active 1964–1970;
Married to Cheryl since 1969, two children;
BS, MS Physics, Umass Dartmouth, MA 1974, 1977;

Worked for GTE, now Verizon, from 1978 until retirement in June 2007, working on data communications¹;

From May, 2010, to March 2012, consulting with Verizon on IP network monitoring.

Current interests include:

• Building websites for small businesses, SMB,
• All forms of photography, and
• Working with my wife to build our flock of Katahdin sheep and to breed Morgan–Lippitt horses.

Other interests: my Mac computer, gardening, model railroading.

Our home, studio, and office is in Wahoo, NE on 40 acre farm. Full resume and publication list available.

See my BLOG        Download my Resume

¹ See my Patents
See some of my Publications

Do you have IP network monitoring issues?

 Complete Small Business Networking & IT Solutions

• Network Architectural Consulting and Design
  • LAN, VLAN, and VoIP
  • WAN and VPN
  •  
• Setup and Configuration
  • IP data networks
  • LAN, VLAN, WAN and Wi–Fi
  • Routers, Switches, and VoIP
  •  
• Full Service 24/7 Data Network Monitoring
  • Device Status
  • Interface traffic volume and loads
  • Network Element Status
  • Local and Remote Network Status
  • Web access interface and log reporting
  • Full threshold–crossing Alerts
  • Notifications through Pager, email, alarms, etc.
  • QoS monitoring
  • Layers 2 and 3 connectivity

We have been a proud Intermapper™ user since 1994.

We can help you with all your IP data networking issues, from setup to monitoring. We promise rapid turn around and we will work within your budget.

Is it important to your business to know if a server is down before the client or staff calls? Is it important to see bottleneck buildups? Is greater network up-time important? Would you like to spend less time troubleshooting your IP network?

We can setup your whole business data–network, monitor your entire network using SNMP as well as many other standard and custom probes, send notices, and do all the work for you.

Contact Us with a data networking question or to request a free quote.

paul.hill@pc2mediaspecialties.com
ph:(402) 443–5174
cell:(402) 443–2174

More Information on Small Office IT Solutions

Ask us about all your photography needs.

Landscapes

Head Shots	Hobbies

Photography

Flower Show

Weddings

Real Estate

National Parks

Our Fashion Photography Site

We want to get your website up when you need it!
We want to earn your trust.

Basically, a simple site with few modifications will be cheaper than a larger site, a site requiring many modifications or sites using databases or content lookup. Also, a basic non-commercial site will cost¹ less than a commercial site. Call (402) 443–5174, cell: (402) 443–2174, or submit a request for an estimate. Starting rates to get your site running are very reasonable. How many customers can you afford to miss? How many customers does the site need to bring before seeing a return. We will try to work within your budget. Our lowest business rates apply to a small business of ≤ 10 employees.

Simple (less than 15 minutes) page changes are free for the first year.

Small and Medium Business IT Solutions

We make outsourcing technology simple, manageable, and affordable by providing all the tools for network support and maintenance. This means one point–of–contact and support to manage your entire Information Technology, IT, environment.

We can provide all of the core network hardware, software, and support management a small business needs to run smoothly and efficiently. For a single, low monthly fee, your business will have an outsourced, managed IT solution that is secure, reliable, customizable, and most importantly – cost effective.

Managed IT

Our managed IT solution includes monitoring of all components including servers, load–balencers, and network elements used to provide all services of your network. The 24/7 monitoring posture ensures timely, proactive maintenance and support. Outsourcing IT reduces technology distractions, increases productivity and efficiency and maximizes your technology investments.

Small businesses often struggle to effectively and affordably manage their computing environment. We provide a technology solution to network design, installation, configuration, management, and support. Outsourcing your IT has never been easier!

What can we do?

We have expertise in all these areas: LAN, VLAN, VoIP, Wi–Fi, WAN, and VPN. We can help you decide on what you need, order all the parts, install and configure them. If needed, we can establish an in-house or external data network monitoring service to watch how it is all working, locate bottlenecks, identify failures, and watch and report utilization. Knowing the utilization can determine if you are really getting the bandwidth you contracted to get with your ISP or if any server or client is machine flooding the network. Monitoring is accomplished using SNMP and other standard or custom probes.

What is a LAN?

This is a Local Area Network that interconnects all of your office computers, servers, printers, and any other office equipment with the ability to connect to a network. Other equipment could include a telephone service or a wireless (Wi–Fi) access point using the same network.

Using the LAN for your telephone service is called Voice over Internet Protocol or VoIP.

The main piece of equipment to interconnect the office components is the switch. If you decide to separate and isolate offices or sections into segments then another required piece of equipment is the router. As the name suggests, a router examines where the information is headed and selects the best path.

Often, these two components, switch and router, are contained in the same unit. Also, any wireless access to your LAN is provided by a wireless Access Point and also is attached to the LAN. On small LANs, the Access Point may also be in a single unit with the switch and router.

What is a WAN? This is a separate Wide Area Network that connects the LAN to the Internet. This is where your Internet Service Provider (ISP) hands off your internet access to you. Offices that depend on the internet for interconnection often rely on a privacy method called a VPN. The VPN or Virtual Private Network encrypts your data and creates a tunnel through the internet to a remote office. Multiple tunnels can be created to interconnect offices and create redundant paths for increased reliability.