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26 November 2024

Improve your cybersecurity posture and efficiency by documenting your IT infrastructure

When it comes to your IT infrastructure, it’s hard  (if not impossible!) to know how secure you are, if you don’t know where everything is located and how it's all configured. This is because every endpoint is an entry point in...

22 November 2024

Ransomware payment reporting to be made mandatory under “Cyber Security Bill 2024”

Ransomware is something that we touch on regularly, as it’s one of the most profitable attacks that malicious actors can use to extract value out of their victims.  One of the reasons for this is that the effectiveness of the attack scales wi...

25 October 2024

Why we use High Availability to ensure the reliability of our Shared Web Hosting platform

When it comes to Shared Web Hosting (SWH) services, there’s no shortage of different hosting companies that you can choose from. They range from sole traders that operate a single virtual server out of one of the many public cloud providers, all t...

17 September 2024

Data Sovereignty vs Data Localisation - Why the difference between them is important

With the ever-growing concerns of foreign influence over data, “data sovereignty” is becoming more and more important not only to governments, but to enterprises and small businesses as well.  Data sovereignty refers to the laws an...

28 June 2024

Managing WordPress at scale – How to easily ensure all your websites are up-to-date and secure

When it comes to making sure your website is secure, one of the most important things - if not the most important - is to make sure that sure your website is up-to-date.  From the software used to build the website itself, to all the plugins, libra...

28 June 2024

An update on the state of cyber-security in 2024 – Ransomware, QR code ‘quishing’, and more

Every six months or so we like to do a review of the state of cybersecurity in the IT landscape.  It’s rarely good news, with cyberattacks seeming to only ever grow in number and in frequency.  And unfortunately, this month’s news ...

20 February 2024

Looking for an alternative to Dropbox or Onedrive? Create your own private cloud storage instead!

When it comes to backing up your data, one of the more popular options that a lot of people have taken a liking to is cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft’s Onedrive.  However, much like the realisations that ma...

29 November 2023

The recent Optus outage – what happened, how it was fixed, and how to protect yourself in the future

Everyone across Australia is likely already aware of the issues that affected the Optus network earlier this month.  They were hard to miss, as Optus is Australia’s second-largest telecommunications company and the outage affected their entir...

28 November 2023

Avoid “budget” hosting - use these criteria to ensure you’re with a good hosting provider

In the hosting industry, there’s a tendency for budget hosting providers to try and attract customers by offering the lowest price possible for their hosting plans.  Unfortunately, as alluring as this sounds, this race-to-the-b...

30 October 2023

How to resolve issues faster – key information we’ll need to fast-track the solution

It’s an unfortunate reality that all things break as they age - entropy is a law of the universe, with all things becoming more disordered over time.  In some ways this is even true in the ephemeral world of  IT,  which is why IT pr...

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