Clever Hacks Optimizing Performance & Savings — practical tips, tricks, and techniques that save you real money.
A CHOP is a clever, practical solution that cuts costs, saves time, or improves performance without sacrificing quality. These aren't shortcuts — they're smarter paths to the same destination. Tomahawk Internet Technologies shares these freely because we believe an informed customer is a better customer.
As a small business, you really don't need to pay $100–$200 per year for an SSL certificate for your shared website. Many shared hosting providers — including GoDaddy — disable the ACME protocol (which enables automatic free certificate renewal) and make it intentionally difficult to use third-party SSL certificates. It's a sales tactic. They're often just reselling Let's Encrypt certificates at a markup.
We'll show you how to get and install a free, trusted SSL certificate on your shared hosting account — the same certificate the big providers charge you for — completely free and renewable forever.
Show Me How →Virtual Reality flight simulation is the modern evolution of "chair flying" — offering immersive, hands-on training that saves real money. Most flight instructors won't suggest building a home VR simulator, because they know it could cut dozens of hours off your training time. Those are hours they bill you for.
We're licensed private pilots who have built and rebuilt home VR flight simulators through trial and error. For a fraction of what you'd spend on a single flight lesson, we'll walk you through exactly what to buy, how to set it up, and how to use it to master maneuvers, radio work, and procedures before you ever step into the cockpit.
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