Your Website, YOUR Business. You lock your office door when you go out. You control your Business and personal bank account. Why would you not control your Hosting space for your on-line presence? Websites and email are essential for the operation of a modern business – whether a single contractor, garage owner, decorator or even… Keep Reading
The Meltdown & Spectre vulnerabilities are very much all over the technical media – but are yet to make the real news. The impacts are threefold: Spectre Variant 1: bounds check bypass (CVE-2017-5753) Spectre Variant 2: branch target injection (CVE-2017-5715) Meltdown Variant 3: rogue data cache load (CVE-2017-5754) The vulnerability was discovered by Google’s Project Zero, a new class… Keep Reading
Hosting UK has been made aware of a suspected vulnerability in Intel’s CPU architecture affecting their processors as well as those from AMD and ARM. This hardware is used in customer solutions across the Hosting UK environment. Our priority as always is to protect our customers’ services. Our engineering team is, therefore, speaking to… Keep Reading
What does an SSL* certificate do? Well, I am glad you asked. All an SSL certificate does is attempt to secure a connection from point A to point B. No more, no less. Cryptographically speaking, a self-sign, or Let’s Encrypt is no more or less secure than the most expensive certificate money can buy. So… Keep Reading
Last week we were talking about the effects of infrastructure outages. This morning we wake to find that the HUGE French-based provider OVH was down. Offline. Email. Web. Globally. Counterintuitively, your scale can work against you sometimes. If you find yourself without service, we are reliable, contactable and UK based – give us a call, use the chat client,… Keep Reading
If you are looking to speed up WordPress, increase performance under load, or are running into issues with resource usage going absolutely crazy when a search engine indexes your site – then you may wish to switch from the “poor-mans-cron” approach and create a formal job to get WordPress to do its homework via wp-cron.php… Keep Reading
Inundated by calls or emails after you have registered a domain? You are not alone – it happens to us too, just after the first few and the wonder of modern phones and mail filters you get a healthy block list and they disappear into the ether. Have you ever wondered how or why this… Keep Reading
Yesterday saw one of the moments you spend a great deal of time, money, planning, and preparing for – but rarely happen. I was on the phone at the time, however, there is something very magical that happens when the power dies, it goes, humanity pauses… like a deer in headlamps. The penny does not… Keep Reading
Between now and the end of the month – we are offering .uk domain names, for two years, for those of you LUCKY enough to have the .co.uk version of the same domain name with us. Sorry what? Yes, Nominet, .co.uk domains with us, you can have a .uk domain free, gratis, no cost, nothing. There has to… Keep Reading
This week has seen quite a few of you talking about load times of 200ms to 400ms citing Google in the process. Initially, there was much scratching of heads, as any site of any modern site with any content what so ever is going to struggle to ‘start’ to load, let alone ‘load’ within 200ms…. Keep Reading
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