Regular updates on news in the IT industry
20 February 2024
There are many advantages to hosting a lot of websites on a single server. Primary among these is that it allows you to optimise your costs and make sure your servers are being utilised to their full potential rather than having resources sit idle...
22 January 2024
When it comes to improving your website performance, usually the aim is to increase the site’s conversion rate for online sales. However, one area that’s often overlooked is how having a fast website shows your visitors that you v...
28 November 2023
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...
28 September 2023
When it comes to selling products and services online, having a quick website can be the difference between landing a sale and having someone abandon your site in frustration – as surprisingly, even a difference of a second or less can make a huge...
28 September 2023
Here at Micron21 we’ve always prided ourselves on using the latest and greatest hardware that’s available. We’ve gone above and beyond what’s required with our own data centre – attaining “Tier IV” accredi...
26 May 2023
This month we’re pleased to be able to announce two new exciting technologies that you’ll soon be able to utilise with your VMware Cloud services with Micron21. These technologies are a potential game-changer - as they’ll allow our cli...
26 May 2023
With reference to IT, when people hear the term "cloud” they often interpret it in many different ways. In fact, when the US government asked the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to come up with a definition, i...
16 September 2022
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
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...
25 May 2022
WordPress is one of the most widely used website building platforms in the world. As of 2021, around a third of all websites in the world used it, and with up to 1.3 billion websites out there in total, this ends up being around 455 mill...