Power and control are often what business leaders are lacking when it comes to the IT they outsource. A dedicated server however can provide businesses with the sought-after flexibility and superior performance they are lacking. Increasing numbers of organisations are outsourcing their IT function, but for those beginning this transition, it is critical they recognise that the hyperscalers are not the be-all and end-all.
This latest Intel CPU vulnerability exploits the same general mechanism that the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities uncovered earlier in the year. This mechanism is called “speculative execution” and refers to the technique where a CPU attempts to guess the work that will be needed in the near future and complete that work before it is needed.
cPanel is an industry leading web-based control panel that provides an easy solution with a large range of features to manage virtually every aspect of your website(s), including FTP, security, MySQL, creating sub-domains, multiple domains management and more.
GDPR is now a month away and most organisations with either a UK or EU presence or customer-base should be wrapping up their GDPR compliance programs. But what happens once May 25th rolls around and GDPR in the UK becomes our reality?
Early this year (2018) we were invited by our friends over at Hosting Advice to be involved in their series of Featured Experts from 2017. We were honoured to be asked and enjoyed taking part.
In fact, it got us reminiscing about our highlights of 2017 from Memset and around the Cloud Hosting world. So here are our some of our favourite moments from 2017:
At Memset, maintaining a really strong SSH (Secure Shell) and TLS (Transport Layer Security) configuration and cipher set is something that we pride ourselves on.
Arguably it’s a lot easier and more cost-effective to monitor, manage and secure a few beloved pets than a giant, shifting herd of cattle. It’s certainly a more familiar and established approach, so the off-the-shelf products and employee skills are readily available to support it.
Our Cloud VPS provides customers with high-speed SSD storage to ensure that demanding applications get the disk performance they require. In feedback from customers, it was highlighted that some users require more disk space without the additional bundled RAM or CPU.
Providing bigger disk space on a Cloud VPS server has, until now, been inefficient for cloud storage providers, resulting in a reduced service and higher prices for the end user – something we at Memset were not willing to compromise on.
Our Head of Security, Thomas Owen, discusses the data protection landscape in advance of Data Protection Day on January 28th 2017.
With just 16 months left to become compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), organisations should be in the full swing of making sure their systems and processes will comply by May next year.
Despite having policies on Open Standards and Open Source in place for nearly five years, over 90% of Government IaaS procurement is still based on proprietary software with non-standard interfaces from large US companies, Ken Smith from Memset explores.
A National Audit Office report has revealed that government spend on consultancy had increased again. Robin Pape, Memset's Public Sector Advisor explained why.
If you are looking for cPanel VPS hosting, Memset, the UK’s leading provider of hosting services is offering a fantastic promotion this August. As well as offering a free cPanel license with all VPS packages with 2GB RAM or more this month, we now use the latest version of CentOS, CentOS7, as our underlying operating system for use with cPanel.
CentOS is an open source platform – an enterprise level solution with no commercial licensing.
To date, G-Cloud has enabled hundreds of SMEs and new players to gain a foothold in the public sector ICT market. However, with around 1850 suppliers and close to 20,000 services on offer, it's becoming increasingly difficult to stand out from the crowd.
"G-Cloud has shown itself to be a model for efficient public sector IT procurement, establishing a dynamic marketplace for cloud-based IT services. We have simplified the procurement process through G-Cloud to make it more accessible to a wider range of companies, leading to more choice, better value for the taxpayer and growth for the economy." Francis Maude Minister for the Cabinet Office.
There are many drivers for cost savings when buying on G-Cloud some of these include:
The Cabinet Office led by Francis Maude is very much blazing the way in moving from more traditional "on-premise" based ICT infrastructure to more agile Cloud-based models. This has gone as far as being a mandate that all central and local Government should look at moving anything that is digital and also appropriate within security confines to a Cloud-based model with a hosting provider where applicable.
We're pleased to announce that you can now edit your firewall rules on the Memset website. We are always looking to add new functionality to the Memset control panel, and we're particularly happy with the new firewall editor because it has been one of our most requested features.
The new tools allow you to re-use the same firewall rule group for multiple servers, This can cut down on duplication, and make sure that your firewalling configuration is consistent.
We've all encountered somewhat abrupt HTTP 404 Not found pages when attempting to retrieve resources that don't exist on a particular web server. Whether someone has mistyped an address, clicked a broken link or attempted to access a file that never existed, a default HTTP 404 isn't pretty at the best of times and is generally fairly unhelpful.
Mobile is undoubtedly one of the fastest growing areas, as the pervasive use of smart-phones, tablets, iPads et al will attest.
Everything is now referred to as cloud; software, hardware, hosting, even your Windows PC is a cloud-enabled tool according to that annoying advert where a woman is uploading a photo to a social network to a jingle of "to the Cloud". Cloud is much misunderstood at the moment and also means different things to different people. Therefore, for the purposes of this blog, I will concentrate on Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS.
The internet is becoming an increasingly important sales channel for retailers, and there has never been a better time to dip your toe in the proverbial e-commerce waters and expose your business to a truly global customer base.
No matter how fast digital storage capacity increases (and, let's face it, it’s rising at an impressive rate), digital content and data storage demands seem to rise exponentially with it. Similarly, with the spiralling cost of properly storing and maintaining your company’s data securely, it’s always worth casting an objective eye over ways in which you can save valuable space and maximise your data storage efficiency. Regular assessment and a little forward thinking can save money and prevent you or your company having a storage surplus or shortfall.
Speed on the internet is, arguably, even more of the essence than it is in the real world. As bandwidth rates exploded so, exponentially, attention spans dwindled and now if your website doesn’t load quickly and reliably enough you may not get a second chance to impress, as copious online studies will attest.
My dear, late mother was never wanting for an aphorism, one of her perennial favourites being, ‘act in haste, repent at leisure’, which, as olde worlde as it sounds, is still highly applicable to the online world and, indeed, the process of choosing and securing the right domain name for your company, project or institution.
With each new phase of development on the internet, there has inevitably come with it a new set of security challenges. There’s perhaps no better current example of this than the denial-of-service attack. DoS attacks (also sometimes Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks) are a relatively unsophisticated way to effectively wreak maximum havoc on an organisation’s web-infrastructure and their ability to communicate with their online clientele.
I often get asked by friends for advice on which operating system I recommend for a server. It's a hard question, particularly because they specifically ask which is for you the best operating system, and there's no right answer to that. I'm not the person who is going to deal with that system and it's not about what works best for me, but for you!
For example, what works best for Memset's customers? After posing that question to our database, these are the results I got:
Prior to working for Memset, I spent six years working for a multi-award winning visual effects and post-production facility in Soho as a production systems administrator (a fancy term for an engineer). Before that, I was working in the web hosting industry. Between the two industries, I’ve encountered much frustration from clients, artists and producers who have failed to take responsibility for adequately protecting their own data.
If you rent a Windows Miniserver from us, you’re more than likely to be using our R1Soft-powered backup system. Utilising R1Soft’s CDP architecture allows us to take a complete copy of your Miniserver’s filesystem, from which you can restore any files or directories that you may need. The R1Soft CDP interface provides an easy way of restoring a select group of files quickly and easily. It can also be used to perform a “bare metal” restore of the entire server if you need to.
When I was asked at the age of seven what I wanted to be when I grew up I knew the answer; A Commercial Airline Pilot.
I even knew enough to be specific, a commercial airline pilot. My first trip of many into the skies was two years before aboard a mighty McDonnell Douglas DC-10.
I was enraptured with the whole experience of flight. How does this thing fly? How do we build aircraft that hold 400 people? Who are the magic people that fly these things? And how do you get to become one?
These days the number of people needing to work at home from multiple locations has gone up considerably. This can be due to a number of factors including cost, flexibility to staff, multiple offices, illness, disruption to public transport or even major events like the Olympics. The main challenge for remote working has been providing staff with the same access to all the systems and data that they need in order to carry out their job function and role.
If you sell a product then chances are you have a website, and if you have a website there is a good chance that you already have a transactional website or sell your products online. E-commerce sites enable customers to browse products in the comfort of their own home and also without the hassles or pressures of a City Centre or a keen salesperson.
Securing computers has always been a challenge even before the Internet was born, in those days security was mainly controlled by physical access and passwords. In other words, if you did not have physical access to the computer in question nor have the password then access was almost impossible.
They say information is power, but what if you have too much information? Remember the good old days when information and knowledge were found in a newspaper, you used to watch the news and if you wanted to brush up on an interest or hobby you bought a book about it? If you wanted information about what was going on locally in your area there was always a wealth of knowledge to be transferred orally; normally between men sipping pints in the local pub. Things were simple back then, Twitter was what birds did and business was conducted at the speed of Royal Mail or Fax machines.
We all know backups are very important but do we honestly do enough to ensure that we are fully resilient against failure - whether that be human or electronic?
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