VPS or Shared Hosting? Seven Criteria for the Right Choice
Seven questions on traffic, control, security and budget that decide which infrastructure suits your site.
Tier III vs Tier IV Data Centres: What Do the Uptime Figures Mean?
What does the gap between 99.982% and 99.995% mean in annual minutes of downtime? Reading data-centre tiers and SLA…
A Website Backup Strategy: The 3-2-1 Rule and Restore Testing
Taking backups is not enough: how to plan copies, separate media, an offline copy and regular restore testing.
Preparing for DDoS: The Difference Between Layer 3-4 and Layer 7
Volumetric and application-layer attacks need different defences; combining network scrubbing, WAF and rate limiting.