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Netcetera Voice – Our Christmas gift to you!

Here at Netcetera we are passionate about enabling small businesses to present a professional image and we are delighted to announce the latest in our range of innovative solutions; Netcetera Voice.

In association with dmClub, we can now provide a virtual business line which brings professional grade VoIP telephony within the reach of the smallest of business. It’s designed for the modern small business where flexibility is the keyword. As well as making your business look professional, you can make and receive calls anywhere and save money too!

To celebrate the launch of Netcetera Voice and as an early Christmas gift, we are giving all our valued customers a Netcetera Voice package worth £21+VAT completely free. You will get a free geographical phone number for anywhere in the UK plus 6 months line rental and you even get £3 worth of call credit to get you started!

Features

  • Save money on calls with Voip
  • Make & receive calls anytime anywhere
  • Design how calls are answered
  • Change call plans in less than a minute
  • Get a local business number
  • Reduce your operating costs
  • Present a more professional image
  • You can use traditional and Internet (VOIP) phones
  • Low call rates – your customers call you at their standard call rate
  • No expensive line installation or long term contracts
  • Simple to setup & manage
  • Call from your home, office or your mobile
  • Same low costs when overseas
  • Call answering when you are busy

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

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New Domains. New Opportunities.

Starting now, new domain extensions, or TLDs, will change how the world uses the Web. People will have the option of choosing memorable and intuitive domain names specific to their online ventures such as .WEB, .SHOP, .SITE, .MED, .FILM and .HOTEL

Today, there are just a few generic domain spaces available, for example: .com, .net, .org, .biz, and .info. New TLDs help consumers know what to expect from the websites they visit, making it easier to find sites relevant to them.

Registering new gTLDs gives you the opportunity to grow your brand’s presence online and to build a domain portfolio that works for you. Whether it’s .london, .shop, .singles – they are now up for grabs, just make sure you get there first!

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

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New UK e-Gaming legislation on its way

Netcetera offers the e-Gaming industry the most advanced and cost-effective facilities for housing IT infrastructure anywhere offshore, so an issue which we are currently keeping an eye on is the new Bill going through government which is set to change how remote gambling is licensed and regulated.

The Gambling Commission estimates that about 85% of remote gambling operators are unregulated. This Bill, which is an amendment to the 2005 Gambling Act, will essentially require that all providers offering online gambling to UK residents will need to get a licence from the UK Gambling commission and in turn become regulated.

The Bill will aim to better regulate remote gambling. Under the new regime, overseas-based operators will be subject to the provisions of the Gambling Act 2005, its regulations and the Gambling Commission’s social responsibility. This will mean, among other things, that all licensed operators will be required to contribute to research, education and treatment in relation to British problem gambling, and to comply with licence conditions.

The Bill which was proposed by Maria Miller MP and supported by a raft of MPs across the coalition, including both the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister is likely to pass through uncontested by the opposition.

The Isle of Man has been included on what is referred to as a “White List” of countries, as they have been deemed to have strong regulatory systems comparable to that of the UK.  The white listed countries will be automatically given licences, so the transition will be smooth and effortless. We hope this new legislation will encourage overseas e-Gaming companies to follow in the footsteps of PokerStars and relocate to the Isle of Man.

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Netcetera ranked as the Most Reliable Windows Hosting Company Worldwide for September 2013

We are very proud to announce that Netcetera is yet again the Most Reliable Windows Hosting Company Worldwide, as ranked by Netcraft, and this month we are the only Windows based web host to reach the Top 10.

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

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.

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 061 2801 or click our Live Chat

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Netcetera ranked as the Most Reliable Windows 2012 Hosting Company Worldwide for August 2013

We are very proud to announce that Netcetera is the Most Reliable Windows Hosting Company Worldwide, as ranked by Netcraft, and this month we are the only Windows based web host to reach the Top 10.

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

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.

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 061 2801 or click our Live Chat

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How CloudFlare increases speed and security of your site

[This is a guest post written and contributed by CloudFlare for Netcetera]

CloudFlare makes it easy for any site to be as fast and secure as the Internet giants.

CloudFlare, a web performance and security company, is excited to announce our partnership with Netcetera! If you haven’t heard about CloudFlare before, our value proposition is simple: we’ll make any website twice as fast and protect it from a broad range of web threats.

Today, hundreds of thousands of websites—ranging from individual blogs to e-commerce sites to the websites of Fortune 500 companies to national governments—use CloudFlare to make their sites faster and more secure. We power more than 65 billion monthly page views—more than Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, Zynga, AOL, Apple, Bing, eBay, PayPal and Instagram combined—and over 25% of the Internet’s population regularly passes through our network.

Faster web performance

CloudFlare is designed to take a great hosting platform like Netcetera and make it even better.

We run 23 data centers strategically located around the world. When you sign up for CloudFlare, we begin routing your traffic to the nearest data center.

As your traffic passes through the data centers, we intelligently determine what parts of your website are static versus dynamic. The static portions are cached on our servers for a short period of time, typically less than 2 hours before we check to see if they’ve been updated. By automatically moving the static parts of your site closer to your visitors, the overall performance of your site improves significantly.

CloudFlare’s intelligent caching system also means you save bandwidth, which means saving money, and decreases the load on your servers, which means your web application will run faster and more efficiently than ever. On average, CloudFlare customers see a 60% decrease in bandwidth usage, and a 65% in total requests to their servers. The overall effect is that CloudFlare will typically cut the load time for pages on your site by 50% which means higher engagement and happier visitors.

Broad web security

Over the course of 2011, CloudFlare identified a 700% increase in the number of distributed denial of service attacks  (DDoS) we track on the Internet. As attacks like these increase, CloudFlare is stepping up to protect sites.

CloudFlare’s security protections offer a broad range of protections against attacks such as DDoS, hacking or spam submitted to a blog or comment form. What is powerful about our approach is that the system gets smarter the more sites that are part of the CloudFlare community. We analyze the traffic patterns of hundreds of millions of visitors in real time and adapt the security systems to ensure good traffic gets through and bad traffic is stopped.

In time, our goal is nothing short of making attacks against websites a relic of history. And, given our scale and the billions of different attacks we see and adapt to every year, we’re well on our way to achieving that for sites on the CloudFlare network.

Signing up

Any website can deploy CloudFlare, regardless of your underlying platform. By integrating closely with Netcetera, we make the process of setting up CloudFlare “1 click easy” through your existing Netcetera control panel.

We’ve kept the price as low as possible and plans offered through Netcetera are FREE. Moreover, we never charge you for bandwidth or storage, therefore saving you tons via reduced bandwidth costs.

For site owners who would like to take advantage of CloudFlare’s advanced offerings, we also offer a ‘Pro’ tier of service for $20/month. The ‘Pro’ tier includes all of the ‘Free’ tier’s offerings, as well as extra features like SSL, full web application firewall and faster analytics.

We’re proud that every day more than a thousand new sites, including some of the largest on the web, join the CloudFlare community. If you’re looking for a faster, safer website, you’ve got a good start with Netcetera but the next step is to join the CloudFlare community .

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 061 2801 or click our Live Chat

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Netcetera Successfully Achieves ISO14001 Certification

Netcetera are very proud to announce that it has achieved ISO 14001 certification, the environmental management system standard. The certification is based upon an external validation of the company’s environmental performance with regard to the design, implementation and support of their hosting solutions in its Datacentre and office operations.

The ISO14001 certification maps out a framework for setting up an effective environmental management system for organisations that want to improve resource efficiency, reduce waste and drive down costs. Certification to the standard requires companies to identify and control the environmental impacts of their activities, products and services.  ISO14001 also requires companies to continually improve their environmental performance and implement a systematic approach to setting and achieving environmental targets and objective.

We have a commitment to environmental stewardship and accountability, and we have worked very hard to achieve the ISO14001 certification. Our global client base can be assured that we are committed to help drive improvements in their environmental impact and in the technology solutions and services we recommend to them.

“We work in an industry with its own particular energy challenges and as the world increasingly turns to hosted cloud solutions to meet its computing requirements, we have a heightened responsibility to ensure our solutions are architected, built and maintained in an environmentally responsible manner from the start,” said Tim Cass, Netcetera CTO, “Achieving this standard helps to underpin our Global Sustainability Programme and focus the business on achieving our targets and objectives, not just in terms of energy but wherever we have an environmental impact.”

A continuous cycle of planning, implementing, reviewing and improving the processes and actions that are performed to meet business and environmental goals, provide Netcetera’s clients and partners the assurance that environmental impact is being measured and improved.

As a result of implementing this programme, we have developed a set of ambitious plans to lower our carbon emissions, which will be unveiled over the coming months – stay tunes!

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Netcetera Successfully Renews ISO9001 and ISO27001 Accreditations for 2013

Netcetera are very proud to announce that the company’s ISO9001 and ISO27001 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.

Netcetera’s CTO Tim Cass commented “Netcetera’s services and products are continually reviewed to ensure that the company provides the highest quality service to their customers. This accreditation confirms our status as a company capable of internationally recognised standards and we are pleased that our dedication to outstanding customer service continues to be acknowledged by ISO.  Netcetera strives to maintain its established reputation for quality and security; it is our aim to provide world class service using the best facilities for our clients. The successful recertification of ISO9001 and ISO27001 reflects our ongoing efforts to maintain the highest service and security levels by implementing effective systems to enhance the working environment of our Isle of Man Datacentre. Renewing our ISO 27001 accreditation effectively demonstrates our on-going commitment to information security and we are delighted to keep our accreditation.”

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.

Being ISO9001:2008 certified and registered means an independent auditor has checked that the processes influencing quality within Netcetera conforms to the relevant standard’s requirements. The primary objective is to give our management team and our clients confidence that we are always in control of the way we do things. An organisation that engages an independent auditor or certification body to check their processes receives a certificate of conformity from the auditor/certification body.

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.

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Netcetera nominated as Hosting Provider of the Year

Netcetera are very proud to announce that they have been nominated as finalist in the Datacentre Solutions Awards 2013 for the category “Service Provider Hosting Provider of the Year”. The DCS Awards categories provide a wide range of options for organisations involved in the IT industry to participate.

The Data Centre Solutions Awards reward the products, projects and services as well as honour companies and teams operating in data centre fields. The DCS Awards recognise the achievements of end-users, channel partners and vendors alike and in the case of the end-user category there will also be an award made to the supplier who nominated the winning organisation.

The winners will be announced at a gala evening event in May 2013 in London.

Voting is now open, so we are asking for your help! To vote click the below link, then select the category “Service Provider Hosting Provider of the Year” and tick Netcetera. Enter your details at the end of the page and click “Submit my votes”

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 Virtual Machine 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.

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 061 2801 or click our Live Chat

 

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Netcetera Shortlisted for ‘Datacentre of the Year’

Netcetera are very proud to announce that they have been shortlisted for the 2013 eGR B2B Awards in the category “Datacentre of the Year”.

The eGR B2B Awards is the egaming service providers and B2B operator’s industry event of the year. It is now in its fourth year, rewards and celebrates the very best service providers in the online gaming industry, recognising the achievements of suppliers from across all the major egaming disciplines including betting and gaming software, networks, mobile, payments, recruitment, IT & infrastructure.

The exclusive event will take place on Thursday 6 June, at The Pavilion at the Tower of London.

Netcetera was formed in 1996 and today is one of Europe’s leading Colocation service providers. Netcetera owns and operates The Dataport, – a state-of-the-art Tier 3+ Isle of Man Datacentre for the housing of all your IT infrastructure. As the most cost efficient Internet Hosting provider in the UK, Netcetera offers safety, security and 24/7 uptime through a newly developed multi-million pound world-class Data Centre facility with 700+ rack hosting capacity.

The facility offers a comprehensive range of cost-effective and secure Internet Services. This data centre features an exceptionally highly specified Infrastructure which at it’s core incorporates N+1 Power, Generator and UPS. Redundant cooling and fire protection and suppression systems, specialised heat and smoke sensors, raised flooring, scalable power for future expansion, 24/7 technical support 365 days a year and unmatched levels of security.

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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 061 2801 or click our Live Chat