Category: Web Hosting News

Almost every hosting company in the country promises 99.9% uptime. Written down like that it reads as a promise never to be offline. Do the sums and it is a promise to…

Here is the thing worth knowing before you start leaving 123-Reg: you almost certainly do not have to move all of it at once. The domain, the mailboxes and the hosting only…

Managed WordPress hosting means your host keeps the software current, keeps working copies of it, watches for trouble and renews the certificates before they lapse. Every host on earth would sign that…

Two minutes of looking will tell you most of it. A whois search says who your domain is registered with and whose name is on it. A nameserver lookup says who controls…

You can keep an old OpenCart shop trading, and plenty of people do. The trick is to stop treating it as software that needs updating and start treating it as a machine…

Nearly every hosting plan sold in Britain says “daily backups” somewhere on the page. The phrase can mean a proper copy taken away each night and kept for a month. It can…

A blog hands the same page to everybody. A shop builds a different page for every visitor, because everyone has a different basket, a different postcode and a different set of discounts.…

Most UK businesses need a managed account on a shared machine. That is the answer for most of the people who ring us about this, and it saves a lot of money…

People say “my web host won’t help me” and mean one of two very different things. Either the host is refusing to do something that is genuinely theirs to do, which is…

OpenCart’s documented system requirements are short enough to fit on a postcard, and almost any hosting plan sold today meets them. That is exactly why so many shops end up somewhere that…