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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
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?<...
30 April 2026
When you're looking to evaluate the options between different Virtual Private Server (VPS) providers, it can be surprisingly hard to know what to actually compare. In a lot of cases, there's very little information provided on the det...
30 April 2026
Last month we touched on the Essential Eight, which are the prioritised mitigation strategies and guidance provided by the...
22 September 2025
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 ...
25 August 2025
It remains true that some of the biggest cybersecurity threats to organisations target individuals rather than systems. Even with the development of AI and large language models, it's largely the improvements to social engineering attacks that...
26 June 2025
Managing a website today is much easier than most people think, but this wasn’t always the case. cPanel, the highly popular website hosting control panel, has revolutionised the way websites are managed, making the process much simpler,...
18 December 2024
When you’re starting out with a new business, there are a few common things that you need to sort out in the early days. On the IT front, this includes things like acquiring the domain name that matches your business name, looking at what pl...
18 December 2024
For most businesses, your website doesn’t only function as the online face of your organisation - allowing visitors to see who you are and what you offer - it’s also used to generate leads and allow your customers to contact you. To that end...
