Last week we were talking about the effects of infrastructure outages. This morning we wake to find that the HUGE French-based provider OVH was down. Offline. Email. Web. Globally. Counterintuitively, your scale can work against you sometimes. If you find yourself without service, we are reliable, contactable and UK based – give us a call, use the chat client,… Keep Reading
If you are looking to speed up WordPress, increase performance under load, or are running into issues with resource usage going absolutely crazy when a search engine indexes your site – then you may wish to switch from the “poor-mans-cron” approach and create a formal job to get WordPress to do its homework via wp-cron.php… Keep Reading
Inundated by calls or emails after you have registered a domain? You are not alone – it happens to us too, just after the first few and the wonder of modern phones and mail filters you get a healthy block list and they disappear into the ether. Have you ever wondered how or why this… Keep Reading
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
Between now and the end of the month – we are offering .uk domain names, for two years, for those of you LUCKY enough to have the .co.uk version of the same domain name with us. Sorry what? Yes, Nominet, .co.uk domains with us, you can have a .uk domain free, gratis, no cost, nothing. There has to… 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
What does shared hosting get you these days? Well, it gets you a LOT of things you probably took for granted, didn’t know that was there, or saw in some sales blurb as “available in the WordPress Pro Solution” on another providers list of shiny things. After reading some “look at the shiny” blurb from… 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
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