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The importance of staging environments
A staging environment in most circumstances is an almost exact replica of your production environment (e.g. the same hardware, software and settings) which are often used to test and develop new code before it is published live. Staging environments are a key part of product development and help to prevent potential issues that occur during
02 / 06 / 2020
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VPS Cloud Hosting: Its Benefits
We get a lot of questions about what exactly makes VPS cloud hosting a good choice for companies. Hopefully, this article will help to address some of these queries. When making your decision to choose a data centre for VPS cloud hosting, it can be hard to know what the best option is as there
27 / 05 / 2020
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Datacentreplus: Virtual Data Centre Tour
We are very excited to unveil our virtual data centre tour of our Manchester-based data centre. Our virtual data centre tour provides the opportunity to learn more about our facility and operations that enable us to ensure 99.99% uptime guarantee and on-going 24×7 support to our customers. The virtual tour provides an overview of: Site
19 / 05 / 2020
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How to ready your business for now and the future
We are now living in a very different world to the one we started 2020 in. Covid-19 has dominated the world news and may also affect how we will live for the foreseeable future (or until it is under control). It’s impossible not to worry as a person, parent, employee, or business owner. We
12 / 05 / 2020
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Covid-19 help and support for businesses
The Covid-19 pandemic is being felt across the whole world. Businesses of all shapes and sizes are facing crazy times, with many struggling to survive and access key resources during the shutdown period. However, there are some great businesses actively providing help by offering advice for companies who are adapting to the changes and also
27 / 04 / 2020
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How to combat security challenges for remote workforces
Working remotely due to coronavirus? We reveal some tips on how to stay safe online while working from home during the Covid-19 outbreak. The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the daily habits of millions of people, and working routines for many are no exception. The last few weeks has seen an increase in the number of
23 / 04 / 2020
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Working From Home Survival Guide
As we head into a further period of lockdown many of us have adopted policies for staff working from home and some of us are still looking for best practices. Below are Stephen Hobson’s our Head of Customer Engagement top tips for staff members and teams for working from home: Environment My first tip is
16 / 04 / 2020
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Liverpool Agencies: ‘Dr Plus’ Lively Diamond Disco Huddle’
We are excited to share with you ‘Dr Plus’ Lively Diamond Disco Huddle’ which illustrates some of the fantastic digital and creative specialists we have across Liverpool! Specialising in digital agency hosting, we began putting together a creative piece which focuses on the Liverpool digital agency community, highlighting these agencies through the artistic ‘Dr Plus’
16 / 04 / 2020
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How do we maintain our data centre?
Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at a data centre? Data centres may look boring from the outside (and most go unnoticed), but don’t be fooled by appearances. They are actually a fundamental part of our critical national infrastructure and power the modern economy! Remember, there would be no Netflix and
15 / 04 / 2020
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World Backup Day 2020
Today is World Backup Day! It’s the annual reminder to people and business owners to protect their data to avoid looking like a fool on April Fool’s Day. Backing up your data is a simple but essential step to protecting what matters – whether that’s business files, personal photos, videos, emails, apps, or your corporate
31 / 03 / 2020
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How to enhance your data security
We understand how important data protection and data security is to your business (and is the area that we are most often asked to advise on), which is why we have put together some key ways in which you can enhance your data security and secure your systems. What is Data Security? Data security refers
28 / 03 / 2020
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Customer Success Story – Forever Manchester
Forever Manchester is one of Manchester’s great institutions – a charity that raises money to fund and support community activity across Greater Manchester. Datacentreplus has been a long-time supporter of Forever Manchester, actively supporting their activities to raise awareness of a broad range of social issues affecting Manchester’s community. More recently, our team played a
20 / 03 / 2020
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COVID-19 Message
Dear Customer: We trust that you are safe and well. We wanted to assure you all that the health and well-being of our team and our clients is of paramount importance to us and that we have taken a number of measures to ensure business continuity during the Covid-19 pandemic. We have taken these measures
18 / 03 / 2020
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Colocation: Do I need it?
What exactly is Colocation? Colocation is one of the services offered by most data centres and we’re often asked if it’s right for small businesses. In reality the answer is almost always ‘it depends’ due to a number of factors. Do you already own your servers? If the choice is between colocation and dedicated servers
13 / 03 / 2020
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Most Common Cyber Security Threats and Prevention in 2020
We’ve just published our cyber security guide (in the FAQ section). If you are at all concerned about protecting your server and networks, and you should be, check it out for useful information to help you to secure your systems. This is not a comprehensive guide to every cyber threat in existence – we’d need
04 / 03 / 2020
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Datacentreplus wins ‘Innovation in Business’ category at the Asian Business Leaders (ABL) Awards
We’re very pleased to announce, Mashukul Hoque, Founder and CEO at Datacentreplus, has been named as the winner of the ‘Innovation in Business’ category at the 2020 Asian Business Leaders Awards. The Asian Business Leaders Awards recognises individuals and businesses that have reached national and global success and are based in the Greater Manchester area.
02 / 03 / 2020
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5 steps to winning new business via email
We recently caught up with our friends over at The Future Factory, a marketing consultancy who help creative, digital and communications agencies with business development. Joanna Allcock, Account Manager shares her thoughts on how to win new business via email. You’ve set up an agency and everything’s going swimmingly. The works flowing in, the staff
02 / 03 / 2020
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Datacentreplus announced as finalist in Asian Business Leaders Awards 2020
We’re thrilled to announce that Datacentreplus CEO, Mashukul Hoque, has been nominated as a finalist in the 2020 Asian Business Leaders Awards, in the Innovation category. The Asian Business Leaders Awards is an opportunity to celebrate the important, innovative and transformational work of business leaders from an Asian background across Greater Manchester. It also recognises
25 / 02 / 2020
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COVID-19 Message
Dear Customer: We trust that you are safe and well. We wanted to assure you all that the health and well-being of our team and our clients is of paramount importance to us and that we have taken a number of measures to ensure business continuity during the Covid-19 pandemic. We have taken these measures
18 / 03 / 2020
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Datacentreplus wins ‘Innovation in Business’ category at the Asian Business Leaders (ABL) Awards
We’re very pleased to announce, Mashukul Hoque, Founder and CEO at Datacentreplus, has been named as the winner of the ‘Innovation in Business’ category at the 2020 Asian Business Leaders Awards. The Asian Business Leaders Awards recognises individuals and businesses that have reached national and global success and are based in the Greater Manchester area.
02 / 03 / 2020
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Datacentreplus launch VPSplus cloud platform to meet customer demand
We are excited to announce the launch of our VPSplus cloud platform, providing our customers with a highly scalable and cost-effective cloud hosting platform. The new VPSplus platform comes with many appealing benefits for businesses, including reduced IT costs, increased collaboration, faster speed to market and improved resilience. There’s also built-in scalability technology, rendering the
20 / 02 / 2020
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Welcoming a new decade with a new brand identity
2020, a new chapter, a new decade and an exciting start to the new year for Datacentreplus! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our newly designed website. After five months of hard work and dedication, we are delighted to officially announce the launch on Wednesday 15th January 2020. We wanted to make our new
16 / 01 / 2020
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Salford Business Awards Finalist 2019
We are thrilled to announce that we have been named as a finalist in the Salford Business Awards 2019 in the Excellence Award category. The Salford Business Awards recognises and celebrates businesses and individuals who have contributed to making our city great. Mashukul Hoque, CEO at Datacentreplus, commenting on the shortlisting announcement says: “It is
15 / 10 / 2019
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Datacentreplus at the Mancunian Way Summer Charity Ball
We are very excited to have attended the Mancunian Way Summer Charity Ball, which took place at the Hilton Hotel in Deansgate. The Mancunian Way are a charity who specialise in street based engagement, targeting individuals who are most in need. Founded in 2011, the charity operates with a belief that with determination, passion, a vision
03 / 09 / 2019
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Datacentreplus at the Henshaws Awards 2019
It was fantastic to attend and support the annual Henshaws Awards 2019 at The Midland Hotel in Manchester. Henshaws is a charity that supports people living with sight loss and a range of other disabilities to achieve their ambitions and go beyond expectations. We were joined by a variety of Greater Manchester businesses at the
24 / 06 / 2019
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Peter Horan latest engineer to join Datacentreplus
We are very excited to welcome Peter Horan as the latest member to join the Datacentreplus team at our headquarters in Manchester. Peter will be taking on the role as a Linux Systems Administrator within the business, providing technical support and assistance to our customer base. Peter has an extensive background in hosting, having worked
19 / 06 / 2019
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Stephen Hobson: 2 Years at Datacentreplus
It’s hard to remember what life was like in the Datacentreplus office before Stephen joined us! – it was certainly much quieter. Communications Manager, Rachel caught up with Stephen, Head of Account Management, who shares his journey at the company so far. Just over 730 days ago, Stephen joined Datacentreplus and has played a critical
12 / 06 / 2019
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Datacentreplus joins Manchester businesses at the Support Dogs Charity Showcase Reception
We were delighted to have attended the Support Dogs Charity Reception at the Hilton Hotel in Deansgate. Ourselves, along with a number of businesses in Greater Manchester, were given the chance to find out more about a small but hard-hitting charity that trains assistance dogs to transform the lives of people with serious medical conditions.
21 / 05 / 2019
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Datacentreplus on the Manchester Agency Tram Map
We are delighted to announce the release of the Manchester Agency Tram Map. The Agency Tram Map gives an indication of how many digital agency specialists we have across Greater Manchester and this will continue to grow as Manchester attracts the best of e-commerce, digital and media across the North. Our aim is to provide
15 / 05 / 2019
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Captain Manchester brings good deeds to MediaCityUK
We are thrilled to have taken part in the Captain Manchester campaign for the Forever Manchester charity. Forever Manchester is a charity that raises money to fund and support community activity across Greater Manchester. Captain Manchester was originally designed as a marketing stunt in 2013 for the Forever Manchester charity. The campaign involved a man
10 / 05 / 2019
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Bank of England’s visit to Datacentreplus
We are very proud to have welcomed John Young, advisor to the Monetary Policy Committee for the Bank of England to our data centre based in MediaCityUK, Manchester. As part of his remit, John is responsible for ‘taking the pulse’ of the business community here and he was really keen to talk to companies in
07 / 02 / 2019
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Datacentreplus Sponsors the Asian Business Leaders Awards
We are thrilled to have supported the inaugural Greater Manchester Asian Business Leaders Dinner and Awards 2018, celebrating the contribution of Asian businesses to the Greater Manchester economy. The Asian business leaders awards and dinner celebrates the enormous impact of businesses which promotes the value of leadership, innovation and service. It also recognises individuals and
12 / 12 / 2018
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Datacentreplus Recognised in the Greater Manchester Business Awards
We are thrilled to announce that we have been named as a finalist for the Greater Manchester Business Awards 2019 in the Customer Service Excellence category. The Greater Manchester Business Awards celebrates the professionalism and excellence of businesses and organisations in Greater Manchester. Rachel Waters, Communications Manager at Datacentreplus, commenting on the shortlisting announcement says:
26 / 11 / 2018
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Datacentreplus welcome Lewis Stonier to Engineering Team
We are delighted to announce that Lewis Stonier is the newest member to join our technical team here in Manchester. Lewis will primarily be providing first-line support to customers who have dedicated servers with us. We are a data centre and hosting company based in Manchester and provide cloud hosting and other data centre solutions.
06 / 11 / 2018
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Datacentreplus on track to create 20 new jobs in Salford & Manchester
We are delighted to announce we are on track to create 20 new jobs in Salford and Manchester in the next 12 months. Set up in 2015, Datacentreplus provides cloud hosting solutions and other data centre solutions for businesses from its ISO27001-certified data centre, based close to MediaCityUK. The facility is 100% privately owned by
15 / 10 / 2018
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Datacentreplus at the Tech Leaders Awards 2018
We were thrilled to have been invited to attend the Tech Leaders Awards 2018 at the Lancaster Gate Hotel in London. Datacentreplus CEO, Mashukul Hoque was announced as a finalist for the Tech Leaders Awards in the Digital Leader category. The Tech Leaders Awards, organised by Information Age, is the UK’s leading celebration of the
18 / 09 / 2018
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