Last Friday we saw what seemed an attack on the NHS. However, as events unfolded, this was far from being a targeted effort on NHS. The attack was at a global scale, but with no particular target in mind. It infected individual users with a particular ransomware dubbed The WannaCry virus. What it did was
We are proud to announce that we are a finalist in the Rising Stars category of the Salford Business Awards 2017. The Salford Business Awards, which is now in its tenth year, looks to recognise and celebrates the success of businesses operating in Salford, UK. It is one of the region’s best-known awards and
Stephen Hobson is the newest addition to Datacentreplus as part of the expansion plans in 2017. Datacentreplus is strategically based in the vicinity of Media City in Manchester and provides hosting services such as Colocation, Dedicated Servers, cloud hosting and backup for growing and established businesses. Joining the company as a key figure in Business
So the popular messaging service, Whatsapp had a worldwide outage last night and reports are coming in that the service is still not completely in full health. Naturally, everyone under the sun went into an immediate panic mode and took to online social media to voice their concerns for what many (jokingly) referred to
With the introduction of our PCI compliant servers we thought it was only fitting we should discuss the essentials of running an eCommerce site. Pay attention to your UX or your sales will suffer The main goal of eCommerce site is to make sales and turn a profit. User experience (UX) plays a big
Remember Google Earth? Well, it's back and it's prettier than ever. In all fairness it never really left, but today Google has launched a revamped, browser friendly version of Google Earth that aims to help people 'gain a new perspective' of our world in all it's HD glory. Naturally, there is also a mobile counterpart
Not that it had much love in the first place, nor that you’ll find many people still using Windows Vista, but as Microsoft released the Windows 10 creators update on Tuesday, they have also officially ended support for Windows Vista. The operating system was first released back in 2007. And for the past 10 years,
You can only get in the passenger side door, numerous maintenance lights are lit on the dashboard and the engine will overheat if you go over 5000 revs. These are some of the pains you may experience when using a car that is past its time. While the car may still ‘do the job’ with
We are pleased to announce we have extended our service portfolio with the introduction of PCI compliant servers. Give your customers the confidence to spend online with our managed eCommerce hosting. Our PCI offering is optimised for customers who qualify for Level 3 and 4. If you handle under 1 million transactions through your site
In a previous article, we explained the basics of what is RAID? and what the benefits are of using RAID configurations for your drives. We thought we’ll continue the theme and talk about the different RAID configurations out there. Not all RAID is equal. There are generally 6 different RAID configurations. 0,1,5,6 & 10. Each
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks It is typically associated with backup, but it is important to mention that it is not a backup solution in itself. People choose to configure their hard drives in RAID as it provides for better reliability and increases performance. RAID is where you have two or more
Datacentreplus will be exhibiting at the DMR event in Blackpool. The Digital Marketing Roadshow is a new type of event which looks to bring together digital experts in the local area and share their expertise and insights to those who look to remain competitive online. Companies are becoming increasingly reliant on technology to drive their
Backup, backup, backup… Being told to backup does get a little tiring after a while, but the advice is about as solid as ‘don’t eat yellow snow’. Seriously, though, what do you have in place to protect and recover irreplaceable files from corruption, deletion or theft? We are always told to have a ‘plan b’,
Data is important, right? We talk about securing your data, making sure your data is protected and away from prying eyes. But what about data backup? It’s hard to ignore the impact of technology on businesses in the 21st century. We’re now more reliant than ever on depending on these ‘mission critical’ services and infrastructure.
In our previous article we talked about how SSL certificates work and how they are important authentication methods for indicating your connection to the site is secure. We also mentioned that it’s necessary to secure your connection to the server as well. SSH does exactly that. SHH Secure Shell is a network protocol that
Data security is important. In previous posts we’ve touched on topics such as securing your online accounts, securing your server and securing weaknesses from the inside, but what about securing your website? More specifically, the connection to your website? As websites are served to users, the information travels across a network computer to computer. In
Data security couldn’t be more important than it is now. We hear about how accounts are getting compromised almost every week in the media these days that it’s hard to ignore the importance of keeping your credentials safe. If you don’t want your details leaked online, or important information stolen, start by not having a
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;
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
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
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