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19 December 2023

The only way to be secure - find the vulnerabilities in your infrastructure before someone else does

With the other article this month highlighting the cyber threats to watch out for in 2024 - the next question arising is how do you go about finding out if your systems are vulnerable?  If you don’t know how to tell if your systems are open t...

28 November 2023

Avoid “budget” hosting - use these criteria to ensure you’re with a good hosting provider

In the hosting industry, there’s a tendency for budget hosting providers to try and attract customers by offering the lowest price possible for their hosting plans.  Unfortunately, as alluring as this sounds, this race-to-the-b...

30 October 2023

How to resolve issues faster – key information we’ll need to fast-track the solution

It’s an unfortunate reality that all things break as they age - entropy is a law of the universe, with all things becoming more disordered over time.  In some ways this is even true in the ephemeral world of  IT,  which is why IT pr...

26 October 2023

Where to begin when looking to get started online – create your first website!

We’ve done a few articles aimed at helping people when they’re just starting out – this includes explanations on what hosting is and how to navigate and use it; deep dive explorations into what domains are; and also a breakdown of...

28 June 2023

Celebrating 20 Years of WordPress – A brief history and an exciting new website tool

When it comes to open-source and free-to-use platforms for building a website, none is more popular and more widely used than WordPress.  With over 455 million websites the world over being built on it, there are many reasons for this wide adoption...

27 March 2023

Concerned about all the recent data breaches? Use these tips to protect yourself!

When it comes to cyber-security, the old proverb that it’s better to “hope for the best, but plan for the worst” is still relevant today.  Even though the literary use of the phrase has been traced back to the 1800s, where it was ...

27 February 2023

Deep Dive – What is phishing, where did it come from, and how can you avoid it?

When it comes to cyber-security threats, the imagination instantly jumps to images of hackers wearing hoodies, in dark rooms lit only by the light of their monitors, tapping away on a keyboard at a mile a minute, breaking into online services through an...

16 September 2022

How to make your WordPress site even faster

In the past we’ve released previous articles on common methods for speeding up websites – from methods such as implementing caching, combining and compressing content, optimising images, to even how your hosting provider’s network coul...

16 September 2022

How speeding up your website can both save and make you money!

When it comes to the speed of your website, it’s not just about making sure your visitors have a good experience, it’s also about making sure they don’t have a bad one. That shouldn’t be too surprising, as research has shown that...

30 March 2022

Where to start? An introduction to your hosting account

Looking into how to set up your own website and email accounts can be intimidating the first time you do it. Whilst each aspect isn’t super complicated on its own, there are quite a number of moving parts that are all needed for the services to wo...

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