The Ransomware Threat – Panicking Doesn’t Help
Last Friday we saw what seemed an attack on the NHS. However, as events unfolded, this was far from being a targeted effort on NHS. The attack was at a global scale, but with no particular target in mind. It infected individual users with a particular ransomware dubbed The WannaCry virus. What it did was […]
Salford Business Awards Finalist 2017
We are proud to announce that we are a finalist in the Rising Stars category of the Salford Business Awards 2017. The Salford Business Awards, which is now in its tenth year, looks to recognise and celebrates the success of businesses operating in Salford, UK. It is one of the region’s best-known awards and […]
Stephen Hobson joins the Datacentreplus team
Stephen Hobson is the newest addition to Datacentreplus as part of the expansion plans in 2017. Datacentreplus is strategically based in the vicinity of Media City in Manchester and provides hosting services such as Colocation, Dedicated Servers, cloud hosting and backup for growing and established businesses. Joining the company as a key figure in Business […]
Whatsapp was down last night…
So the popular messaging service, Whatsapp had a worldwide outage last night and reports are coming in that the service is still not completely in full health. Naturally, everyone under the sun went into an immediate panic mode and took to online social media to voice their concerns for what many (jokingly) referred to […]
5 things you can do to sell more on your ecommerce site.
With the introduction of our PCI compliant servers we thought it was only fitting we should discuss the essentials of running an eCommerce site. Pay attention to your UX or your sales will suffer The main goal of eCommerce site is to make sales and turn a profit. User experience (UX) plays a big […]
Google Earth has relaunched… now in HD!
Remember Google Earth? Well, it’s back and it’s prettier than ever. In all fairness it never really left, but today Google has launched a revamped, browser friendly version of Google Earth that aims to help people ‘gain a new perspective’ of our world in all it’s HD glory. Naturally, there is also a mobile counterpart […]
Microsoft Windows Vista is officially dead.
Not that it had much love in the first place, nor that you’ll find many people still using Windows Vista, but as Microsoft released the Windows 10 creators update on Tuesday, they have also officially ended support for Windows Vista. The operating system was first released back in 2007. And for the past 10 years, […]
Ubuntu 12.04 to follow CentOS 5 into the archives as they become End of Life
You can only get in the passenger side door, numerous maintenance lights are lit on the dashboard and the engine will overheat if you go over 5000 revs. These are some of the pains you may experience when using a car that is past its time. While the car may still ‘do the job’ with […]
Introducing PCI Compliant Servers
We are pleased to announce we have extended our service portfolio with the introduction of PCI compliant servers. Give your customers the confidence to spend online with our managed eCommerce hosting. Our PCI offering is optimised for customers who qualify for Level 3 and 4. If you handle under 1 million transactions through your site […]
Different RAID configurations and their benefits.
In a previous article, we explained the basics of what is RAID? and what the benefits are of using RAID configurations for your drives. We thought we’ll continue the theme and talk about the different RAID configurations out there. Not all RAID is equal. There are generally 6 different RAID configurations. 0,1,5,6 & 10. Each […]
