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21 January 2026

Benefit from High-Availability Public Cloud, Whilst Saving Money Using Your Own Hardware

With more and more people being hit hard by the ever-increasing cost of hyperscaler public cloud offerings – once touted as the future of all IT infrastructure – people are now increasingly looking for different ways to reduce the cost ...

21 January 2026

The Features that Keep You Secure on our Shared Web Hosting (SWH) Platform

In today's digital landscape, the need for robust cybersecurity has never been more critical.  With cyberattacks growing in sophistication and frequency, businesses and individuals alike face constant threats to their online assets.

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12 December 2025

Monitoring & Maintenance - The Importance of Managing your IT Infrastructure

While public cloud services promised scalability and ease, many organisations are rediscovering the value of running their own IT infrastructure - whether on-premises or in a private cloud environment.  This shift isn't just about nostalgia for...

12 December 2025

SaaS vs Self-Hosted Applications - Security, Compliance, and Control in IT Management

The digital transformation wave shows no signs of slowing, and at the forefront is the explosive adoption of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions.  Businesses worldwide are integrating these cloud-based tools to streamline operations, boost colla...

21 November 2025

The growing threat of unintentional data leaks via Shadow AI

Last month we spoke about the dangers of Shadow IT  - which is the practice wherein staff use unapproved software or other IT resources whilst performing their jobs.  Not only is this a risk to organisations due to the lack of oversight, ...

30 October 2025

The Hidden Risks Lurking in Shadow IT

When it comes to securing your infrastructure, visibility over all your assets is paramount.  Without the ability to monitor and manage your systems, ensuring that your organisation is truly secure becomes an impossible task.  Unfortunately,&n...

30 October 2025

On-Prem to Cloud: A Guide to Choosing the Right Model & Provider

The shift towards cloud and data centre hosted services is not a new trend, but it's one that continues to accelerate.  For years, the standard approach to IT infrastructure was to keep everything on-premises.  This meant physical servers ...

22 September 2025

Dedicated GPU vs Contended GPU - Get the benefits of GPU compute without the associated costs

With the power and adaptability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), it’s little wonder that many different companies are looking to develop their own AI tools, either for their own internal use, or alternatively to put them ...

22 September 2025

Supply-chain cyberattack on npm - How it occurred, what was affected, and how to protect yourself

At the beginning of the year in our “State of Cybersecurity” round-up, we stated that due to the adoption of AI, one of the biggest threats that organisations were going to increasingly face was that of sophisticated phishing attac...

25 August 2025

The Real Cost of Hyperscalers: "Low-Cost Computing" Not So Cheap After All

For more than a decade now, businesses have looked to modernise their IT infrastructure by moving away from older, often on-premises hardware onto more scalable and future-proofed solutions. The promise was enticing: cost-effective, infinitely scal...

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