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23 June 2026
There is one word in the hosting and IT industry that causes more confusion, and more disappointment, than almost any other: "managed". Nearly every provider claims their service "includes management". Very few are willing to tell yo...
23 June 2026
From the moment we decided to provide mission-critical hosting services, one truth was unavoidable: there is no such thing as mission-critical hosting without a way to stop cyber attacks. A perfect data centre with an undefended network is a fortress wi...
22 June 2026
Dedicated server or VPS? It is one of the most common questions we get asked, and one of the most poorly answered on the internet, because most providers only sell one of the two and write their comparisons accordingly. Micron21 is a data centre operato...
22 June 2026
Everything we have built at Micron21 over the past two decades has been designed around one idea: uptime. Our Tier IV certified data centre is designed for uptime. Our global network, AS38880, is designed for uptime. Our DDoS protection is designed to k...
19 June 2026
Colocation looks simple from the outside: rack space, power, cooling, done. That illusion is exactly how businesses end up with their hardware in the wrong facility. Your servers might hold years of intellectual property, customer data and revenue-gener...
19 June 2026
Most articles comparing colocation with on-premise server rooms are written by people who have only ever sold one side of the argument. I am in an unusual position: I have lived both. Micron21, today an Uptime Institute certified Tier IV data centre ope...
18 June 2026
Everyone is in love with large language models and generative AI right now, and rightly so. The technology is genuinely transforming how businesses write, code, support customers, analyse documents and make decisions. But underneath the excitement sits ...
18 June 2026
Every IT manager, CTO and business owner eventually faces the same practical question: colocation vs cloud hosting. Should you own your hardware and house it in a professional facility, or buy infrastructure as a service and never touch a server again?<...
12 June 2026
If your business runs online (and today, whose doesn’t?), the building your infrastructure lives in matters far more than most people realise. Your website, your applications, your data and your customers’ trust all ultimately depend on phys...
29 May 2026
It's always been true that keeping your systems up-to-date is one of the most important things you can do to remain secure. And as our long-time readers will know, it's a topic we cover often – not because we want to sound like a bro...
