Cruzio Receives State Grant for Equal Access Summits to the Sea Project

…tt, COO at Cruzio, explained. “We’ve got rural communities, farmers, low-income communities out here. Then just a hop away we’ve got Silicon Valley, high-tech and bustling. It’s quite the gap. But getting reliable internet out here? Not so easy with our geography. And that digital divide? It’s real, making life harder for folks. With the Summits to the Sea project we’re working to level the playing field and give everyone a fair shot.” This projec…

Black-footed Cats

…s of the feet they prefer arid to semi-arid scrub and short grassland, and open terrain close to rocky outcrops the little dudes are predominantly nocturnal but occasionally crepuscular (which means it can be seen out of its den just after sunset and before sunrise) during the day they rest either in burrows dug by other species, in hollow termite mounds or among rock tumbles in Afrikaans they are called miershooptier, means anthill tiger, hence t…

Setting for Coastside.net email

…eted the email changes! Sending an email to your own email address should confirm you can send and receive with no issues. If you do need any additional assistance, please open a support ticket at cruzio.com/contact and we’ll respond as quickly as we can in the order tickets are received….

How to Add SPF Records for Website Hosting

…n will help prevent spammers forging email from your domain. Learn more at openspf.org. You can use the SPF Record Wizard to create a record to put on your domain. Adding an SPF record in your control panel Log in to your domain control panel with the Cruzio Domain Tools. Select the domain name you want to create the SPF record for. If you are on host 6 or 7, this can be accessed by first clicking Domains under the Main Menu in the upper left hand…

The Great Cruzio Internet Jingle Competition

…owned, net neutral, fiber-optic internet right now.” Well, we asked and you responded. So here we present our nominees for the new Cruzio Internet Jingle! We invite you to take a listen below and vote for your favorites. And be sure to come by the Open House Extravaganza on Friday November 1st to see who won (and also just to have a great time at another excellent party.) Here are the nominees:   And please, let us know what your favorites were b…

Our Very Own Tech Titans

…e to compete with some of the biggest corporations in the country. Staying competitive means we’ve had to build a whole new communications network, one that’s locally owned and operated specifically for local residents and businesses. Because so many people need better internet, we’ve extended from Santa Cruz County to reach further up the coast, to San Mateo County, and further south, to parts of Monterey and San Benito counties. Building stuff i…

Rules, Mergers: What’s Ahead for the Internet?

Seems like news about telecommunications companies comes from one direction after another — the headlines are dizzying. Why should we care about these titans clashing and marrying? Because their function, in part, is to deliver information. People use that information to make decisions, notably political decisions. Here’s the future, if the big corporations have their way: the largest ISPs will continue to consolidate their near-monopoly market s…

TechRaising 2018: Beautiful Minds

…nty garage startups like Plantronics, Netflix, or Looker. These successful companies began as local ideas, and they continue to contribute to our local tech ecosystem. Many successful entrepreneurs are on hand at Techraising as mentors and judges, along with venture capitalists from Silicon Valley. Twenty Projects on the Big Teal Wall Using Cruzio’s open space and big teal wall to organize, twenty would-be entrepreneurs pitched ideas for startup b…