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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...
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...
30 March 2026
Nowadays, it seems like every other article from the major news publications is about AI. And you’ll have to forgive us, as this article too will be tangentially related to that topic. However, in our case, we’ll be coming more f...
25 February 2026
With the costs of all cloud infrastructure seemingly going through the roof, and getting more expensive month after month, it’s no surprise that businesses all over the world are looking for alternatives. From the acquisition of VMware and t...
21 January 2026
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 ...
12 December 2025
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...
