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Preparing your infrastructure for Black Friday

In the lead-up to the busiest online shopping day of the year, is your website ready for the high volumes of traffic that Black Friday brings? Black Friday has become... read more

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Technical Update from our Product Managers

We asked our product management team to talk about the work they've been involved with in each of their areas. Our product managers look after each of our products, making... read more

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Plesk vs cPanel

When choosing between web hosting control panels, it's often a toss-up between Plesk or cPanel. Between them, they dominate the market for users looking for account and server management tools.... read more

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Server management with Plesk Obsidian

In late September, the server management tool Plesk released its newest version to early adopters. Following the naming convention set by the previous release, Plesk Onyx, the new version is... read more

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What is NVMe storage?

Like a spinning hard disk, storage technology never stops moving for long. Maybe it’s ironic then, that the latest and greatest storage hardware doesn’t feature any moving parts.... read more

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epic.LAN Case Study

Download case studyepic.LAN is a community gaming event that hosts esports players and casual gamers from across the UK and beyond several times a year. The epic team have... read more

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Rent a game server with the latest technology

From CS:GO to Minecraft, Ark to DayZ – so many video games are at their best when played with friends. When it comes to playing your favourite titles online, having... read more

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From testing to production in the cloud

Launching a website, updating software, or just doing routine maintenance – virtually every web development process comes with an element of risk. Whether it’s one wrong character in a line... read more

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Are VR websites the future?

Whether it's movies, video games, or real life, virtual reality has been around in some form for decades yet it’s never gone fully mainstream. This begs the question – is... read more

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Farming out 3D rendering to the cloud

The rendering of computer-generated imagery is an incredibly demanding task. At the top end, studios like Pixar and DreamWorks constantly push the limits of technology, producing work with staggering levels... read more

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What is a storage area network?

Whether it’s the hard disk spinning in your laptop or the rows of humming drives in a data centre, data storage is a critical part of computing. Computers and... read more

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Bare metal: for developers

Combining all the best parts of virtual machines and dedicated hardware, bare metal servers are the latest innovation in infrastructure technology. Traditionally, if your project needed power and stability you’... read more

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Big data processing and bare metal servers

In an increasingly interconnected world, where smartphones talk to doorbells and fridges have their own cameras, devices are collecting data like never before. But where is it all stored, and... read more