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18 December 2024

The differences between Hosted Exchange, Microsoft 365, and cPanel Email - which should you choose?

When you’re starting out with a new business, there are a few common things that you need to sort out in the early days.  On the IT front, this includes things like acquiring the domain name that matches your business name, looking at what pl...

18 December 2024

Reduce the amount of spam you receive from your website using reCAPTCHA

For most businesses, your website doesn’t only function as the online face of your organisation - allowing visitors to see who you are and what you offer - it’s also used to generate leads and allow your customers to contact you. To that end...

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...

19 December 2023

The only way to be secure - find the vulnerabilities in your infrastructure before someone else does

With the other article this month highlighting the cyber threats to watch out for in 2024 - the next question arising is how do you go about finding out if your systems are vulnerable?  If you don’t know how to tell if your systems are open t...

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...

26 October 2023

Where to begin when looking to get started online – create your first website!

We’ve done a few articles aimed at helping people when they’re just starting out – this includes explanations on what hosting is and how to navigate and use it; deep dive explorations into what domains are; and also a breakdown of...

28 June 2023

Celebrating 20 Years of WordPress – A brief history and an exciting new website tool

When it comes to open-source and free-to-use platforms for building a website, none is more popular and more widely used than WordPress.  With over 455 million websites the world over being built on it, there are many reasons for this wide adoption...

27 March 2023

Concerned about all the recent data breaches? Use these tips to protect yourself!

When it comes to cyber-security, the old proverb that it’s better to “hope for the best, but plan for the worst” is still relevant today.  Even though the literary use of the phrase has been traced back to the 1800s, where it was ...

27 February 2023

Deep Dive – What is phishing, where did it come from, and how can you avoid it?

When it comes to cyber-security threats, the imagination instantly jumps to images of hackers wearing hoodies, in dark rooms lit only by the light of their monitors, tapping away on a keyboard at a mile a minute, breaking into online services through an...

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