From Microsoft. Source: https://news.microsoft.com/europe/2023/01/05/consistent-global-pricing-for-the-microsoft-cloud/ Begins: Today, we are announcing that Microsoft is taking several steps to align the pricing of our Microsoft Cloud products globally, meaning customers will have consistent pricing reflecting the exchange rate of the local currency to the US dollar (USD). Starting April 1, 2023, pricing for Microsoft Cloud products will be… Keep Reading
As we all get more accustomed to the cloud-based lives we lead, ‘everything, everywhere, all the time’ becomes the norm. We rely less on physically located single servers doing one thing (well), but with a single point of vulnerability and, therefore, potential failure & downtime. This is where Microsoft Exchange Online comes in… Previously customers… Keep Reading
News of the price in power charges will come as no surprise to anyone. For Hosting UK however, it has been a very difficult decision; we use an enormous amount of electricity to provide your services, and whilst we do hedge our power prices, we have not been immune to the global increase in power… Keep Reading
This is just a quick post highlighting the positive feedback our teams regularly get at Hosting UK. Of course, our teams are never ones to blow their own trumpets, but they do work tirelessly to help get you guys online and keep you online, so all the trumpeting below is from you… As you can… Keep Reading
Microsoft have announced cost price changes for all Microsoft 365 subscriptions. As a result of these changes, our package prices are increasing. There are ways to help with some of these price increases, for example if you are paying monthly, switch to annual up-front payments and lock those prices with Hosting UK. Simply raise a… Keep Reading
As part of our continual focus on Security at HostingUK, we recently upgraded our payment platform. This was in preparation for changes coming in March 2022 and relates to big improvements in how we all process & use credit/payment cards in the UK and Europe. It’s something called SCA (Secure Card Authentication). From March 2022, SCA will… Keep Reading
Researchers at security company Qualys discovered 21 vulnerabilities in Exim, a popular mail server, which can be chained to obtain “a full remote unauthenticated code execution and gain root privileges on the Exim Server.”. Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA), responsible for receiving and forwarding email messages. It runs primarily on Unix or Linux… Keep Reading
Microsoft is rebranding Microsoft Office 365 to Microsoft 365 on April 21st 2020 which will reflect a wider range of product offerings. Since its launch in 2011 Office 365 has grown immensely and the number of services and subsets now includes not just Office but tools for small business and enterprise to manage their entire… Keep Reading
Changes we’ve made The General Data Protection Regulation’s (GDPR) comes into force on 25th May and as with all things well planned, there’s been the inevitable last-minute scramble to get those last few things checked off. We’ve got a few things to do still, but we’re sure customers are keen to know how we’ve been… Keep Reading
I’m delighted to announce that Windows Server 2016 is now available on our cloud platform. The latest release from Microsoft introduces a load of new features including support for the new HTTP/2 protocol in IIS 10.0 which promises to speed up web site delivery and reduce load on web servers. Another long overdue feature is support… Keep Reading