What is GDPR?
Over the last couple of months, you may have noticed an increased number of news articles related to ‘GDPR’. It seems everywhere you look there is someone telling you that GDPR is upon us and that you need to “act...
May 7, 2018
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Over the last couple of months, you may have noticed an increased number of news articles related to ‘GDPR’. It seems everywhere you look there is someone telling you that GDPR is upon us and that you need to “act...
May 7, 2018
The cloud has certainly been a disruptive technology and it has radically changed how companies of all sizes do business. The bulk of businesses have moved to the cloud in some way, and for those that have not the...
May 7, 2018
You had a great idea for an ecommerce website and unlike most people, you didn't just leave it there - you got your act together and actually created the site you had in mind! Of course, that's a major achievement, but...
May 7, 2018
These days, you simply can't be too careful when it comes to the security of your data. Unfortunately, attacks happen every day, and websites of all scopes and sizes are being targeted. If you have a dedicated...
January 24, 2018
Email hosting has been around for a long time. Not many may be aware of it, though, since most email users rely on free email services like Gmail, AOL Mail, and Yahoo! Mail. Businesses and professionals, however, may...
December 28, 2017
Many companies have diversified their product and service offerings that they have outgrown their business classification. Web hosting companies, for example, are no longer just web hosting service providers nowadays....
October 18, 2017
In July 2013 we wrote an article about what we thought were the five best free alternatives to Microsoft Outlook at that time. We had no idea that the article would prove so successful, and we thought it might be a...
September 15, 2017
The web hosting industry has gone through many changes and along the way encountered a number of innovations that have caused considerable disruption. None of these have caused as much disruption as the 'cloud' and its...
August 17, 2017
If you keep up to date with the web hosting industry news you might have come across ‘Bitcoin’. It seems that hardly a day goes by without another web host announcing that they have adopted Bitcoin as a payment...
June 14, 2017
At the beginning of this year we took a look at some of the free forum software which allows developers to add forums to websites. To balance the equation we thought we might have a look at some of the premium (paid)...
May 19, 2017
When we first published this article back in August 2013, we had no idea how popular it would prove to be. Many thousands of people have read it since then and looked at the solutions we suggested might be viable...
April 18, 2017
Remember the days when every website had a forum? Those were the days, weren't they? Unfortunately, with social media on the scene, these days many website developers just don't bother adding a forum anymore, instead...
January 16, 2017
Remember the days when the only domain names available ended in .com, .net or .org? Things were easy back then. You either got the exact name you were looking (like 'web.com') - or you got the next best. Back in those...
December 20, 2016
Over the last decade there has been a revolution in access to the internet. Whereas once building websites was the sole domain of developers and coders, these days you don't need any programming skills to setup even the...
November 9, 2016
Let’s face it - everyone and their brother has a blog or website these days. While many people manage blogs and sites for the love of it, still more are hoping to get rich from their efforts. You might have the...
November 3, 2016
Whether you run a web hosting business or any other type of business, the chances are that you are pretty much running everything through a mobile phone. Arranging meetings, doing deals, contacting customers -...
June 17, 2016
Businesses that are trying to find technical expertise and particular skill sets can find themselves hunting far and wide for the right people. Regardless of which industry you are in, recruitment is a great drain on...
June 6, 2016
With more and more people joining the 'new economy' and either becoming involved in startups or self-employed, coworking space is being viewed by many as an ideal solution to avoiding the cost of dedicated business...
June 6, 2016
It seems that everyone and their brother are bloggers at the moment, but few are truly successful. However, when a blog has 100,000 subscribers or more, what might have started out as a bit of a side interest can become...
June 3, 2016
With Google's algorithm constantly evolving, changing and growing it can be stressful determining what factors are important in regards to your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts. Some aspects are obvious and...
May 9, 2016
If you are a small company, particularly one with a global audience of potential customers, social media marketing is important. For web hosts and cloud companies, it's vitally important. The typical web host customer...
April 27, 2016
WordCamp London 2016 is in the history books. Over this past weekend, hundreds of WordPress enthusiasts, hosting providers, developers and designers descended on London Metropolitan University to meet, learn, and grow...
April 12, 2016
Although the world might have gone mobile, you still find the PC at the core of most businesses. Your accountants still use Excel and your sales team still produces PowerPoint-based presentations. As everyone...
April 1, 2016
Let’s face it. Running a small business – regardless of whether it is a web hosting business or not – is hard work. You have enough on your plate. You are doing the marketing, setting up the products, getting...
March 16, 2016
As a web host, you might have set up thousands of blogs for your customers but never once considered needing one yourself. Why, you might ask yourself, do you need a blog? Well, the immediate answer is fairly simple
February 10, 2016
One of the key buzzwords at the moment is the curiously entitled 'Internet of Things' - usually abbreviated to 'IoT'. The term was introduced in the 1990s by a founder of MITs' Auto-ID Center, Kevin Ashton, who was part...
February 10, 2016
Choosing the right hosting provider for your business can be a harrowing experience for anyone who is not well versed with server infrastructure and its subtleties. Here are guidelines that will assist you in choosing...
January 20, 2016
A new year is upon us - a time that energizes us and strengthens our resolve to do something more with this coming year than we did with the last. For web hosts and other small businesses it's a time for renewed...
January 5, 2016
If you have always wanted to read a book about overcoming procrastination, but never go around to it, read this article instead…
January 4, 2016
It's the same every year ... Millions and millions of people worldwide set out their New Year resolutions at the end of December. Of course, on a personal front it's always something like 'lose weight' or 'make more...
December 29, 2015
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