Steve Salter

October 13, 2014November 25, 2014

Netcetera Wins Award at Energy Expo

We are very proud to announce that Netcetera was one of the winners of the Energy Awards 2014, announced at the Isle of Man Energy Expo.

There were three categories of award: Best Practice, Biggest Saving, and Most Innovative Project. Awards were given in each category for both public and private sector organisations.

Ken Milne, Senior Manger for Energy Policy at the Department of Economic Development said:

“The annual Energy Awards are an excellent opportunity for the Department of Economic Development to recognise the significant achievements by local businesses to reduce their energy consumption and energy bills.

The winner this year from the private sector for the Best Practice award was Netcetera. This is an excellent example of a sustainable business that provides its clients with a 100% carbon neutral data centre.

The data centre has incorporated energy efficiency improvements and is powered by green renewable energy provided by Manx Utilities from the hydro power plant at Sulby.”

Commenting on the award, Netcetera’s CEO, Peter Skelton, said:

“This award is the result of our effort to do all we can in order to try and reverse the effect our business is having on the environment. Initiatives such as sourcing all our power from renewables along with the latest technologies to increase power efficiency will help to reduce our carbon footprint and act as our contribution towards the larger picture of protecting the environment. This will, in turn, help our customers become greener too.”

Netcetera is an entirely carbon neutral company, this covers their data centres, offices and all operations for all new and existing hosting solutions. Websites will also be carbon neutral, they will be presented with a distinctive carbon neutral logo to display the client’s green credentials.

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October 13, 2014January 25, 2017

Netcetera Successfully Renews ISO9001, ISO27001 and ISO14001 Accreditations for 2017

Netcetera are very proud to announce that the company’s ISO9001, ISO27001 and ISO 14001 accreditations have been successfully renewed following an extensive independent audit of its standards and procedures. This accreditation is only awarded to companies that demonstrate the highest quality management systems.

ISO 9001:2008 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organisation needs to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide products that meet customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements. Netcetera aims to enhance customer satisfaction through effective quality assurance and continual improvement.

The ISO 27001:2005 standard is an international certification that applies requirements for information security management systems. The standard is designed to provide customers with an assurance that their provider uses industry best practices or information security

ISO 14001 is an internationally-recognised accreditation for organisations that demonstrate superior environmental management. The certificate highlights Netcetera’s ongoing commitment to both maximise the energy efficiency of it’s existing datacentre estate and develop innovative new green hosting services.

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October 9, 2014November 25, 2014

Transfer your Web Hosting to Netcetera without any hassle

In today’s ecommerce driven world, having a website which looks good, runs efficiently and remains online a high percentage of the time has never been so important to the success of a business. Thus finding a good web hosting company is a key component to guaranteeing that success.

At Netcetera you can transfer your existing hosting package to us in just a few simple and easy to follow steps, and with a guarantee of no interruption to your website.

Before you start
Ensure that you have a full working copy of your website files, databases, cgi scripts, etc. stored on your computer. Make a record of any email address settings and passwords from your current hosting provider.

Your new Netcetera Account
Order your chosen Netcetera web hosting service using an email address that is on a different domain from the one you are initially wishing to transfer.
Upload your website via FTP address or the online file manager in the control panel, install and configure any databases and scripts. Setup your email accounts.

Test your website with your instant access url. eg http://mynewsite.soon2be.co.uk

The Switch
Contact your Domain registrar and have the DNS information for your domain changed to point at the corresponding Netcetera’s Name Servers:

ns1.nameservers.co.uk
ns2.nameservers.co.uk

In approximately 12-24 hours check your domain name to ensure it is now pointing to your new Netcetera web server.
At that point you should cancel service with your previous host provider. Make sure they remove your domain name from their DNS servers.

Check you EMail Settings
Check the email settings in your email software to make sure your settings work with the new service. This should read something similar to:

Incoming POP3 Server: mail.yourdomain.com
Outgoing (SMTP) Server: mail.yourdomain.com
Login: Your full email address

Relax…
Enjoy reliable, hassle free, supported hosting service with Netcetera and best of luck with your online venture.

Questions? Let us help!

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October 2, 2014November 25, 2014

Netcetera Have Teamed Up with Bugscore 360

Netcetera are delighted to announce that we have teamed up
with Bugscore 360, a web-based software that allows your company’s employees to score each other in real-time.

What is a 360 Review?

If you have a team (small or massive) and you want to optimize and monitor their performance and see how they compare, you would conduct a 360 review. This full circle, 360 review provides feedback from peers, superiors, subordinates, customers and suppliers and helps the employee and management better understand their strengths and weaknesses: Great for coaching employees toward better performance, determining bonuses and promotions.

Problem

Most 360 review systems use surveys that take too long, or they are qualitative and hard to tally, and there is no real-time feedback (helps your organization “self-correct”). Until now…

Introducing

Bugscore 360, The World’s First Real-Time 360 Review Scoring System. Bugscore 360 is brought to you by the same group that produced Bugscore, the world’s #1 scoring application used to score over 37,000 businesses, 2,423 companies, 92,360 products by over 400,000 people.

Reasons to Buy

There are FIVE main reasons to consider Bugscore 360:

Quick to complete, real-time or scheduled (90% quicker to complete which means you can use it more frequently)
Produces qualitative and quantitative results (world’s ONLY real-time scoring)
Provides direct and frequent real-time feedback (see scores in seconds)
Easy to monitor over time – track improvements (big data insights others cannot show)
Can change culture and increase performance

There’s a lot more, but watch the short but exciting video to see how to do a 360 review with Bugscore 360.

Pricing

Bugscore 360 cost from $1.00 to $5.00 per month per employee for 360 reviews any time, dramatically less than alternatives.

Questions? Let us help!

To speak to one of our Sales Consultants about what our services can do for you, or for any other queries, please fill out our Enquiry Form or call 0800 808 5450

September 9, 2014November 25, 2014

Netcetera awarded the Investors in People Standard

Netcetera announced this week that it has been awarded the Investors in People Standard, demonstrating their commitment to realising the potential of their people.

Investors in People is the UK’s leading accreditation for business improvement through people management, and provides a wealth of resources for businesses to innovate, improve and grow, with a focus on good people making great business.

Paul Devoy, Head of Investors in People, said: “Achieving the Investors in People Standard is something that any organisation should be truly proud of. Working with Investors in People inspires and enables leaders, managers and employees at all levels to build their skills, improve their performance and achieve their potential. We’d like to congratulate Netcetera on their achievement.”

Steve Burrows, Managing Director of Investors in People North of England said: “This is a fantastic achievement for Netcetera and I would like to congratulate the team on their success. We believe that good people make a great business and as a proven organisational development framework, Investors in People is designed to help organisations and their people to realise potential, enhance performance and meet goals. With their accreditation success, Netcetera is certainly working to realise their people potential.”

Commenting on the award, Netcetera’s CEO, Peter Skelton, said: “Investors in People accreditation is a major boost to Netcetera and recognises the focus and professionalism of our talented and committed team. We are looking forward to further building on our core strengths to ensure the continuing development and improvement of our business. The accreditation not only helps to sharpen our competitive edge but will provide us with a strong framework for best practice and achieving our ambitious goals for the business moving forwards.”

“Netcetera mission is to help organisations develop their talent and therefore Investors in People accreditation clearly demonstrates that we too are committed to maximising our performance by investing in our people,” added Peter.

About Investors in People
Investors in People makes people management excellence count. They exist to help businesses realise the potential of their people, improve standards and gain the accreditation to prove it.

Through the respected Standard, business insight and the IIP bank of tools and resources, organisations of all shapes and sizes can put their people first – and discover a brighter business future.

Over the last 20 years, IIP has helped more than 100,000 businesses around the world improve, using their Accreditation Framework to boost working culture, increase employee engagement and encourage game-changing leadership.

Investors in People is owned and managed by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, an executive non-departmental public body of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Questions? Let us help!

To speak to one of our Sales Consultants about what our services can do for you, or for any other queries, please fill out our Enquiry Form or call 0800 808 5450

August 27, 2014November 25, 2014

Google now boosting the ranking of SSL Sites

Google have just announced it will boost the ranking of sites that use secure and encrypted connections. This is part of Google’s efforts to push “HTTPS everywhere” on the web.

What is HTTPS?

HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) is a communications protocol used on the Internet that has a layer of security added. It is a combination of the standard HTTP protocol, and a security protocol called SSL/TLS.

HTTPS is important because standard HTTP sends data over the Internet in plain text making it easy to intercept. The added security layer with HTTPS encrypts information traveling over the internet to prevent wire tapping, stolen credit card numbers, and other interceptions.

What is a SSL Certificate?

SSL is the acronym for Secure Sockets Layer and is the Internet standard security technology used to establish an encrypted (or safe) link between a web server (website) and your browser (i.e. Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, etc…). This secured link ensures that the data/information that is passed from your web browser to the web server remain private; meaning safe from hackers or anyone trying to spy/steal that info.

SSL is the industry standard and is used by millions of websites to protect and secure any sensitive or private data that is sent through their website. One of the most common things SSL is used for is protecting a customer during an online transaction.

To establish a secured SSL connection on a web server it requires an SSL Certificate to be properly installed. When completing the process to activate SSL on your web server you will be asked to complete a number of questions to verify the identity of your domain and your company. Once properly completed, your web server will create 2 types of cryptographic keys – one is called a Private Key and the other is called the Public Key.

Are all SSL Certificates the Same?

The number of businesses that use SSL have increased tremendously over the past few years and the reasons for which SSL is used has also increased, for example:

Some businesses need SSL to simply provide confidentiality (i.e. encryption).Some businesses like to use SSL to add more trust or confidence in security and identity (they want you to know that they are a legitimate company and can prove it).

As the reasons companies use for SSL have become wider, three different types of SSL Certificates have been established:

Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates
Organization Validation (OV) SSL Certificates
Domain Validation (DV) SSL Certificates

Netcetera offers SSL Certificates from as little as £14.95/pa.

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July 31, 2014November 11, 2015

Netcetera Have Teamed Up with New Relic – FREE TRIAL

Netcetera are delighted to announce that we have teamed up
with New Relic, the all-in-one web application performance management provider for the cloud and the datacentre.

Special Offer

Netcetera offers a FREE 30 Days Pro Trial valued at $149

New Relic monitors every move your application makes, across the entire stack, and shows you what’s happening right now.
Its SaaS solution combines real user monitoring, server monitoring, application monitoring, and availability monitoring in a single solution built from the ground up.

It changes the way organizations manage web application performance in real-time, enabling developers and operations teams to quickly and cost effectively monitor, troubleshoot, and tune application performance.

Benefits

Multi-language support: Ruby on Rails, PHP, Java, Python and .NET
Real user monitoring including performance of all end-user page requests.
Server monitoring including metrics on CPU usage, physical memory, network activity, load averages, and more.
Rich monitoring of application performance and response time down to the level of individual transactions.
Tracing through the entire stack of application functionality down to individual application components, classes, methods, and more. Including the calls into the back end database.
Simple product delivery via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model
Rapid time to value. New Relic works when first installed with no configuration required.

Questions? Let us help!

To speak to one of our Sales Consultants about what our services can do for you, or for any other queries, please fill out our Enquiry Form or call 0800 808 5450 or click our Live Chat

July 2, 2014

Netcetera ranked as the Most Reliable Windows Hosting Company Worldwide for June 2014

We are very proud to announce that Netcetera is yet again the Most Reliable Windows Hosting Company and 2nd Worldwide, as ranked by Netcraft.

This is a fantastic achievement for Netcetera as the ranking is measured against the world’s top Hosting companies!

Netcraft commented “Netcetera came second in June, also with only two failed requests, giving it the most reliable Windows-based hosting company site. Netcetera has been in the hosting business since 1996 and offers a 99.9% uptime guarantee, although in practice its site actually reached 99.99% uptime over the past year and 99.96% over nine years.”

From a customer’s perspective, the percentage of failed requests is very important and for this reason to give a clear indication of reliability of routing, the ranking is measured by a table of fewest failed requests, rather than periods of outage.

Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of approximately forty leading Hosting providers sites. The performance measurements are calculated at fifteen minute intervals from different points around the internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.

Netcetera was formed in 1996 and today is one of Europe’s leading Web Hosting service providers, offering a full range of products, from a basic hosting service catering to individuals who need to host a single website, to large companies who require more complicated setups using, for example, our latest Managed Windows Cloud Server, a Cloud Server or a Dedicated Server. Whatever your Hosting requirements, our range of Managed hosting options will provide you with a solution, and our UK based Hosting packages can help create a professional backbone for your online business.

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June 25, 2014

Grab your New .UK Domain Today!

Netcetera are very proud to announce the launch of .UK – out on its own for the first time. The new .UK domain extension is the shorter and sharper alternative to the .CO.UK extension we all know.

It follows the precedent set in Europe where shorter domains such as .FR and .DE are common place. Let your company name take focus and keep your domain extension short, sweet, and memorable with .UK!

More British than the cup of tea

Wondering why you should get a .UK domain? There’s plenty of reasons:

Signify a UK presence
Protect your brand and business identity
A new shorter and memorable domain extension
81% of British users prefer to use a .UK website over a .COM when
shopping online

With over 10 million .CO.UK domains registered today and 2 million being added every year, it’s safe to say the United Kingdom loves .UK!

Protect your brand with a new .UK

Registrations of .UK domain names are open to anyone. However, in most instances, if you already own a .CO.UK, the equivalent .UK domain will be reserved for you.

For full details on how priority allocation works, check out our FAQ
section below.

Secure your new .UK and put the focus on your British brand today.

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To speak to one of our Sales Consultants about what our services can do for you, or for any other queries, please fill out our Enquiry Form or call 0800 808 5450 or click our Live Chat

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