Custom Technology Solutions of Macon has been serving the Middle Georgia area faithfully since the first day our doors opened. We've done a bit of everything from building and selling custom desktops and workstations to offering internet services like web and e-mail hosting to end-to-end network creation and maintenance. Our experience is every bit as deep as it is broad. For more information on what we've done for specific clients, check our Clients page where we list references and work descriptions. Here, you can find what we have to say about ourselves, straight from the horse's mouth.

Hulan Thompson, CEO

After working for a major corporation in the southeast for forty years I felt it was time to try something else in life. I had spent the last five years guiding, among other areas, the IT department for my company. This was enough to spark an interest in me to form my own IT company. Realizing this is a younger persons area of expertise, I surrounded myself with the best talent I could find. My mission statement was to establish a company with integrity that would treat all customers with respect and dignity, while also turning a reasonable profit, and creating a work environment that was fun for myself and my employees.

This was nearly three years ago, and to date we have not lost a single customer. We have tried various types of advertising but have found that having satisfied customers is the best advertising possible.

Alan Hicks, Network Engineer

Before coming to work at CTSMacon, I had spent two years working for a similar, if ultimately unsuccessful, company. When I first began I knew very little about computers, but found them a fascinating new challenge. I soon fell in love with the work and dove head first into learning as much as possible about them. Like many people my age, I had had video games and some familiarity with computers, but nothing had prepared me for such a fast-paced innovative field.

For perhaps the first year I struggled in a game of catch-up with the rest of the industry, but soon I began to find that learning more would require me to get out and do more, rather than sit back and read on what other people had done. With that attitude, I took on a number of projects, some big, some small, some more than I could readily chew! Some were impossible, and some I was told were impossible. I'm proud to say that I've proved the nay-sayers wrong more than once.

Today, most of the new solutions being developed by CTSMacon are my creation. While I am by no means a gifted programmer, I have been blessed with an extraordinary ability to take vastly different pieces and weld them together into a homogeneous solution. Some of my achievements include fault-tolerant servers, reliable machines with uptimes well over 2 years, security hardened servers, and high performance machines. To date, my most public, and perhaps greatest achievement has been the publishing of Slackware Linux Essentials Second Edition, a book on the popular GNU/Linux operating system avaiable both online and in print. I was also one-fourth of a team we called SlackSec. We published third-party security updates for the popular Slackware Linux operating system while it's maintainer was too ill to work. Later, we worked with a second third-party group in this role, and were publically thanked in Slackware's Changelog.