Microsoft have announced cost price changes for all Microsoft 365 subscriptions. As a result of these changes, our package prices are increasing. There are ways to help with some of these price increases, for example if you are paying monthly, switch to annual up-front payments and lock those prices with Hosting UK. Simply raise a… Keep Reading
As part of our continual focus on Security at HostingUK, we recently upgraded our payment platform. This was in preparation for changes coming in March 2022 and relates to big improvements in how we all process & use credit/payment cards in the UK and Europe. It’s something called SCA (Secure Card Authentication). From March 2022, SCA will… Keep Reading
Researchers at security company Qualys discovered 21 vulnerabilities in Exim, a popular mail server, which can be chained to obtain “a full remote unauthenticated code execution and gain root privileges on the Exim Server.”. Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA), responsible for receiving and forwarding email messages. It runs primarily on Unix or Linux… Keep Reading
Microsoft is rebranding Microsoft Office 365 to Microsoft 365 on April 21st 2020 which will reflect a wider range of product offerings. Since its launch in 2011 Office 365 has grown immensely and the number of services and subsets now includes not just Office but tools for small business and enterprise to manage their entire… Keep Reading
Back in February Google let everyone know in a blog article that their Chrome browser would start treating sites that were still delivered over HTTP (as opposed to HTTPS) differently. Time is an odd thing. When I read advisories for 2020 I tend to discount them because “by then, we will all be in silver… Keep Reading
I know our customers are keen to know what happened last week when we experienced a network outage. A good number of you have contacted us to find out when they can expect the full Service Interruption Notice (SIN) or reason for outage. Typically, these are turned around quickly, however, while the cause of the… Keep Reading
I was writing a paragraph or two for inclusion on a partner website. These things are never easy, as you want to convey a lot about yourself or your offering without sounding cheesy and just like everyone else, and of course, you need to convey the value of your product. I’m not a marketing person really… Keep Reading
Changes we’ve made The General Data Protection Regulation’s (GDPR) comes into force on 25th May and as with all things well planned, there’s been the inevitable last-minute scramble to get those last few things checked off. We’ve got a few things to do still, but we’re sure customers are keen to know how we’ve been… Keep Reading
(update 6th April 2088 – Customers who were affected who require the official service interruption notice, please contact support.) If you’re a customer then you’ve seen this I hope. I sent it to all of our customer account contacts earlier this afternoon. Of course, you may have been affected and we’re not on the distribution list,… Keep Reading
Domain names. We are a domain name registrar. There are top level registrars. There are registrants. This is a small piece on the lifecycle of a domain – specifically a GTLD – one of the old school ones … so .com .org .uk and so on. Today I saw a diagram that illustrated superbly how… Keep Reading
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