About

Welcome to Frugal IT.

Frugal IT was founded in September 2008. This site was created for IT professionals that work in the SMB space. A lot of small & medium sized business do not understand the value of IT and there for do not provide their IT Department with much of a budget. Fortunately there are ways to get around this dilemma… Read Frugal IT and find out how to run a full-fledged IT shop for a fraction of what BIG businesses ~~pay~~ waste.

What Powers this Site:

Software:
- Red Hat Fedora Core 4 (Linux)
- Apache 2
- Bind 9
- PHP 5
- MySQL 4
- WordPress
  - Theme: Thesis 1.6
  - Plugins:
    - Disqus Comments
    - Google Analytics for WordPress
    - PollDaddy Polls
    - Thesis OpenHook
    - TweetMeme Retweet Button
    - WG Twitter Widget
    - WordPress Database Backup
    - WP Super Cache
    - WP to Twitter
Host: 1&1 VPS (Powered by Parallels Virtuozzo & Plesk 9.0)
Hardware: Dual Core AMD Opteron

Who is Behind Frugal IT?

Me @ SpiceWorld 2008 Excepting my "Spice" Award

My Name is Justin Dorfman and I am a Systems Administrator for Western Costume Co. located in North Hollywood, Ca. I have been in IT for about 5 years and couldn’t be happier.

I really enjoy finding ways that I can save the company a few bucks here and there and think I am pretty good at doing it. That is why I created this site, for you, the struggling IT guy/girl who supports 100+ devices all by yourself and has little or no budget at times (especially now 2008).

I hope my site helps you learn to save a little here and there so you can make the boss happy. If you are interested in contributing or have an idea please contact me, I read every email, comment, twit, etc.