Yesterday saw one of the moments you spend a great deal of time, money, planning, and preparing for – but rarely happen. I was on the phone at the time, however, there is something very magical that happens when the power dies, it goes, humanity pauses… like a deer in headlamps. The penny does not… Keep Reading
This week has seen quite a few of you talking about load times of 200ms to 400ms citing Google in the process. Initially, there was much scratching of heads, as any site of any modern site with any content what so ever is going to struggle to ‘start’ to load, let alone ‘load’ within 200ms…. Keep Reading
Many thanks to TITAN/NWROCU for reposting the NCSC’s guides targetted at small businesses today, aimed at raising awareness and assisting in securing your applications, networks, services. https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/smallbusiness – is a great place to check out their current guidelines. Other items in the series cover the following topics: Backing up your data; Protecting your organisation… Keep Reading
We use Enterprise drives, we do. We use Enterprise drives because… you know, we are an enterprise. But there has to be more to it than that surely? Of Course there is – these drives are designed to take a pounding – or in other words we value our data, we recognise our data is… Keep Reading
Oh, that’s a sad thing. No one likes to read that. But what you may not realise is that is sad for a number of reasons. Firstly, because parting – well it kinda feels like we did something wrong – and Secondly – because the chances are it will continue to happen. What follows are… Keep Reading
CDN’s are great. Seriously. They are a wonder of the modern age. You get your heavy lifting done by someone else, and they have offices around the globe. What is not to like? Oh – okay – so maybe if they start over sharing you find yourself with an issue. A very ugly issue. It… Keep Reading
Sometimes we have to say goodbye. Next month we say goodbye to CentOS 5 going EoL (End of Life) – but most critically to most of you – we have PHP… which is constantly evolving and moving forwards. 5.6 that so many of us are still using regretfully – well it is now slipping into… Keep Reading
I have mentioned before what you need when things go wrong is options. Options are golden. You will note that has an S on it – it is plural – more than one. People are fallible, and machines, well they break, damage, and let the wrong person in the front door from time to time…. Keep Reading
The following was released 2 hours ago – by WordPress. This is the kind of thing we are concerned about when we see so many sites unpatched. The When, not If. Take a moment and check over the version you are running. When logging in as the administrator – take a moment to check and… Keep Reading
Lets stop for a moment and re-visit the importance of patching your CMS and what can happen if you do not. Why? Because the trends are not changing. In fact, they are stagnant. Put in overly simplistic terms would you go out and leave your house, shop, warehouse unlocked? No, probably not. Your website –… Keep Reading
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