The Journey to IPv6

Many of our customers will be aware that there are two sets if IP addressing conventions.  We thought it would be interesting to look at the history of this.   Lets jump back to 1983, the Internet was conceived and the first set of addresses were allocated. There are around 4.2 billion valid IPv4 addresses; […]

How to mitigate risk when migrating colocation providers

Changing colocation providers isn’t something you would want to do regularly. There is a lot of time, effort and risk of downtime associated with colocating. Hopefully migrating colocation providers is something you will only have to do once or twice.  If you talk to people about migrations, ‘tedious’, ‘painful’ and ‘never again’ might be their […]

Benefits of Colocation

As we are becoming more reliant on technology, businesses are too. When technology plays a central role to how a company operates and offers their product, the performance and reliability of the equipment is of critical importance. It’s common that we hear from companies such as accountancies, logistics, procurement companies and startups do in fact […]

Does hosting affect SEO?

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Is the art of doing certain activities that help improve how well your website appears on search engines such as Google. Most people undertake SEO activities as an attempt to get their website to the top of the front page. Whilst this is the general jist of what SEO is about, […]

We Now Offer Managed Server Hosting Packages

  Good news for people who don’t want the hassle of managing their own server. Datacentreplus now offers Managed Server Hosting Packages so that you can focus your efforts where it is most needed. Our Managed Server Hosting comes in two packages, Silver and Gold. The Silver package offers a quad core server with 8GB […]

Still deciding if you should go for the clouds?

Many companies have spent 2016 deciding whether or not to utilise the benefits of the cloud. No doubt, you may have started 2017 with the same question lingering. Leave the decision til after the holidays they said… However, whilst the cloud seems like all the craze at the moment, it doesn’t mean that you should […]

Choosing a Dedicated Server Provider

2017 is here and it marks that time of year where we revise everything in our lives. Whether you’re looking to detox, declutter, save or reduce things from your life, for many techies and small businesses, it brings together the discussion of revising their current hosting provider. Choosing to move from a hosting provider is […]