The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly accelerated digitalisation across the globe. Characterised by strict social distancing measures and remote working, this new era of safety has forced many businesses to rethink how it can deliver services, in an efficient and safe manner. The data centre industry is no exception.

Modern organisations have always relied on digital infrastructure to support their businesses. However, at no other point in time has there been such a need for cloud services than during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. With the physical world being replaced by the virtual, cloud services have become a key facilitator in ensuring businesses can remain operational, even in the most challenging of circumstances.

The current situation has forced the UK into a brand-new way of working, and demand for flexibility from businesses has never been higher. With technological dependence greater than ever before, businesses need to be ensuring continuity, and the key to this is adaptability, allowing firms to move with the moment.

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.

With G-Cloud 11 launching and Memset once again proud to be included. What exactly is it? What does it mean? And where is it going?

We all know someone in our industry that is struggling to balance their role, home life and health. Which is why Thomas Owen, Head of Security and Business Services, will be talking about this at Bsides Dublin

Dedicated servers provide the ultimate in power and control, but are they right for your business? Find out why a dedicated server is right for you.

You might have noticed something different on this visit to the Memset website. We've got a fresh new look with the same great secure, innovative and trusted services and support

The OpenStack Summit, now in its 16th iteration, took place last week in Vancouver, BC. OpenStack operators and developers from around the globe descended on the beautiful Canadian city made famous for the 2010 Winter Olympics to discuss all things  Cloud Open Infrastructure, and I was fortunate enough to attend for my fifth summit (Tokyo, Austin, Barcelona and Boston previously).

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:

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.

Last month Memset sponsored the after party of the Security BSides event in Athens, which brings experts and researchers together in order to discuss the latest advances and threats in Internet Security. Three members of the Memset team attended the conference and on their return, we caught up with them.

In recent years the hosting industry has changed significantly, we’ve noticed that what we once called Miniserver VM is now known as Cloud VPS. Therefore we are changing some of our service titles to fall inline with industry standards.

Memset are delighted to be the after party sponsor for this year's Security BSides Athens, supporting one of the largest and most cutting edge security conferences in Europe.

With more and more websites gaining SSL protection, consumers are becoming increasingly wary of sites which do not support HTTPS. Indeed, major web browsers are no longer marking pages with 'mixed content' as secure (ars technica UK, 2015), with an eventual goal of marking all non-https sites with a warning (cnet, 2015).

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.

Memset has become a Corporate Sponsor of Security BSides Athens, part of the world’s leading community-driven framework of security events, helping researchers, professionals and InfoSec enthusiasts to come together and exchange knowledge.

Continuing to cement our position as one of the most reliable hosting companies, we delivered 100% uptime for 2015.

Since the release of Debian Jessie, we've been working hard to build and thoroughly test a Jessie image for our Miniserver platform. As of today we're pleased to announce that it is available for new Miniservers, and also for re-images.

Large visual changes are coming to Memset.com soon. Here is a list and explanation of the improvements before they arrive.

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.

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is a specification that enables access to restricted resources (e.g. embedded fonts or JavaScript's AJAX calls) on a web page to be requested from another domain outside the domain from which the resource originated.

Memset Scoops Two Awards For Our First Class Hosting Services!

Boost network security and protect business assets by segmenting traffic

As of 14th July 2015, Microsoft will finally be ending the extended support phase of the Windows Server 2003 operating system.

What the end of support from Microsoft means to customers:

Named ‘The Oscars of IT’, these industry awards are the highlight of the year for IT professionals. The awards don’t just praise the successes of the big players, but celebrate the whole industry by recognising the excellence of individuals, projects and organisations in several categories.

Here at Memset we are always looking for ways to improve our service offerings to ensure that we provide the most reliable, secure, affordable and efficient products we can. As part of this cycle of continual service improvement, we have highlighted the way we provide customer service and overall account security as two areas where we believe we could be doing better. We would like to take a moment of your time to outline three important changes that we will be implementing in the coming weeks.

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.

As a cloud hosting provider it is only natural for us to choose a virtualisation platform that we are going to offer, support and maintain long-term for our customers. Eleven years ago this was UML (user mode Linux) and for the last seven years or so this has been open source Xen

The sky over Guildford lit up last night for the annual Guildford Lions firework display. Memset is delighted to sponsor the event every year as it brings the community together and raises an enormous amount of money for vital local charities. One of the charities supported this year was KatCanDo. They provide diagnostic, therapeutic and palliative equipment and other resources related to cancer treatment not automatically provided by the NHS.

Last week, as part of my work for Memset, I found myself climbing a steep and windy hill on the outskirts of a small town called Godalming in the Surrey countryside. What made it slightly strange was that I was surrounded by decades old graves and heading for an old chapel.

Memset Hosting is proud to announce that it is sponsoring WXG (Web Expo Guildford), a one-day event at G-Live dedicated to bringing together the best of Surrey's design and development talent. As Memset is also Guildford based, we saw this as an excellent way of giving a local event a chance to thrive.

It’s been a busy year for Memset. Not just launching new products and features, but we’ve also picked up a number of industry awards along the way. For the sixth year running, we’ve picked up PC Pro’s Best Web Host as voted by readers of the magazine. If that wasn’t enough we’ve won the ISPA Best Managed Service award as voted by other ISPA members as well as the BCS UK IT Industry Award for Small IT Supplier of the Year. Memset’s managing director also picked up The Toast of Surrey’s Business Personality of The Year.

Memstore is our brand new cloud storage solution based on the open source software project OpenStack Object Storage. Memstore is a redundant, scalable object storage where you can store safely and securely petabytes of information, and then get that information back in the easiest way.