Alan Card

Alan Card is an IT business consultant, cybersecurity professional, and lifelong gamer. His experience spans enterprise security engineering, IT analysis, compliance, automation, and business systems strategy, including roles supporting major retail and technology environments such as JCPenney. With a background in Business Computer Information Systems from the University of North Texas and active involvement in ISACA, he brings a practical, business-focused perspective to technology and cybersecurity. Outside of his professional work, Alan is a longtime gaming enthusiast with a particular passion for MMORPGs and Dungeons & Dragons. His decades of experience in gaming communities provides insight into digital culture, online collaboration, and the intersection of technology, entertainment, and community building.

Namecheap Outage Exposes a Bigger Question: Why Couldn’t 5,000 Servers Simply Fail Over?

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A major cooling failure at a Phoenix data center knocked portions of Namecheap’s infrastructure offline on August 13, affecting thousands of servers and raising an obvious question from customers: how can a company this large lose so many services because cooling failed at one facility? Namecheap’s CEO responded publicly One notable aspect of the incident … Read more

VAC-Net Feels Worse Than Ever in CS2, and Valve May Be Rebuilding It in Real Time

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Counter-Strike 2 was supposed to be the clean break. New engine, new smoke system, new Premier mode, new ratings, and supposedly a new era for anti-cheat. Instead, one of the loudest conversations around CS2 has become painfully familiar: cheating feels out of control, VAC Live feels inconsistent, and VAC-Net no longer inspires the same confidence … Read more