Windows Server 2016 Is Here – Are You Ready To Gain An Advantage

Netcetera, a leading provider of web hosting and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions is pleased to announce the arrival of Windows Server 2016 for their web hosting plans. Windows 2016 is now available across a broad spectrum of our hosting solutions including Dedicated Servers, Virtual Private Servers, and Cloud Servers, giving businesses and enterprise clients access to Microsoft’s latest generation platform.

It may have been a long wait but we firmly believe that our clients will benefit immediately from several key enhancements including advanced multi-layer security,easier management of both physical and virtual machines, multiple layers of built-in protection to reduce risks of their physical and virtual devices and run both existing and cloud-native applications using Windows Server Containers and Nano Servers.

With these updates, Netcetera’s clients will now have multiple layers of built-in protection to reduce risks, eliminate suspicious activities, block malicious attacks and add extended protection to all their virtual machines. Clients can run their websites or applications in a smaller, faster, more secure environment where virtual machines can be setup in both Virtual Machine and Nano Server configurations reducing overall resource usage.

Netcetera’s clients will immediately benefit from more security, reduced resource usage and significantly improved reliability.

Not only will businesses now be able to benefit from Windows Server 2016 but by choosing to host with Netcetera you will be guaranteed first class support from our knowledgeable friendly team of experts. All of our hosting packages are available online with very simple no nonsense pricing. For those of you who may need a more tailored solution we can also provide you with everything you need to configure a package designed around your specific needs.

So if you’re ready to take the next step to better hosting then there’s only one place to go.

Gain Your Advantage Today

Register your interest today to take advantage of some fantastic prices right across our full portfolio of hosting and managed IT solutions.

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Shockproof Your Business Today With planB

It’s never too late to prepare a planB.

London suffered another emergency situation on the 26th July 2016 which resulted in hundreds of office workers being evacuated as emergency services closed several areas around the London Wall. The emergency was caused by a huge gas leak which has caused the police to cordon off a large area and has resulted in many office premises to be closed down for the day. A spokesman stated that the road would have to be dug up to allow for the gas to be removed and that the area could be cordoned off for a long period of time.

This isn’t the first time such an incident has occurred and yet many businesses within the City still do not have a Disaster Plan in place.

Yesterday’s incident showed how important it is to have a planB in place. The cost of downtime is huge and with many businesses within the City operating on a global basis even the smallest amount of downtime can be catastrophic. It’s no longer a matter of, if, rather than when, will an event take place that could risk the functionality of your business?

Here at Netcetera we specialise in providing enterprise class disaster recovery and business continuity solutions for businesses big and small.

From within our modern zero carbon datacentre we can ensure that an emergency doesn’t have to become a disaster.

Our IT Backup and Disaster Recovery solutions are second to none. With several options available built around your own requirements. We offer some of the most aggressive robust solutions available on the market.

From continuous data backup for cloud and dedicated servers  along with daily backups and cloud storage options and our modern onsite business recovery centre, we have your business covered to survive any incident.

So if yesterday’s incident has made you think about what you have in place, there’s never been a better time to get in touch to see how we can protect your business from disaster with planB or one of our many other leading IT recovery solutions.

Start Your Plan Today

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7 Questions to ask yourself before you choose your new Host – Equipment

Part 4: Quality Server Hardware = Uptime

Following on from the introduction, longevity and history  and last weeks thoughts on Support, a good Managed Hosting Provider will be using the latest most efficient equipment available so you can enjoy the best server uptime possible.

The type of servers your web host uses makes a difference!

Many budget hosts use older hardware and technology to keep costs as low as possible. Others lease servers from a datacentre provider, so if something goes wrong they will be the middleman between you and a quick fix. Their relationship and how they are managed is a problem you don’t want to ever have.

Quality hardware matters too. While a web host could be using a desktop that was on sale for £299.99 at a well known out of town superstore and set it up to act as a web server, a true web host buys and uses ONLY enterprise level equipment. This is the expensive stuff that’s built and designed to be running 24/7 with redundancy built in in terms of Power Supply and Hard Disks.

So you should find out what kind of servers they use? Are they offering shared Cloud Hosting or dedicated Cloud Hosting? Do they allow flexible cloud resizing if your business expands.

Here at Netcetera, we only buy and use enterprise rated hardware. We also only use SSD’s, and are one of the leaders in the industry to do so and not charge extra for it. SSD’s are SUPER FAST (about 15X) compared to traditional hard drives that most traditional web hosts use. They are more expensive, but because of the increase in reliability and significant increases in speed, we know it’s worth it. This type of Equipment has the added bonus that it’s kinder to the environment helping to make Netcetera a Greener host too.

PEEK BEHIND THE CLOUD

Hosting Highlight: Cloudlets

Our ‘SSD Cloudlets’ are a natural progression from shared hosting you can choose a server and memory size and pay for what you use.   Prices start from just £5pm  and we have a great range of options, these plans are perfect for the control freak residing in most of us.

Questions?

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Ready To Launch Your New Business? Let Netcetera Help!

The Netcetera JumpStart programme is targeted at helping new businesses create the next BIG thing – be it in FinTech, Cloud, Internet, Mobile or Games development. We  will provide your Startup with a great workspace at our Datacentre as well as FREE tools, top-quality mentorship, and training workshops designed to successfully take your business to the next level.

We understand how vital it is that startups establish an effective online business as soon as they can. With many businesses deriving up to 40% of all sales from the internet, we know that the future is the internet and it moves pretty fast.

However, new startup companies face a multitude of challenges in the early days, and often find it difficult to understand the process of setting up a business online.

What you get from Netcetera!

  • Up to $120,000 worth of FREE software and services in association with Microsoft BizSpark
  • 3 years of FREE Cloud Server management, valued at over £2,000, including all backend management, security, backups, patching, and 24/7 monitoring
  • FREE use of a HotDesk
  • Ongoing Business Mentoring

We can also help you with your website design, choosing the right hosting package, assist you with your business plan and help you prepare the documents needed to apply for Government funding.

At Netcetera, we work very closely with a variety of new companies, offering special pricing and promotions for our cloud portfolio. We help you plan, deploy and run a cloud customised for you. We ensure you get the solution that best suits your requirements, allowing you to focus on your core business, rather than managing your infrastructure.

Our aim  is to ease the burden, from both a technical and cost perspective during the formative stages of setting up your business. We would hope our relationship will grow and we can assist your business as it grows and becomes a success.

Register for JumpStart

Questions?

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Come and meet the Netcetera Team at Datacentre Summit North

Netcetera will be joining other industry experts at this exciting event. This will give you the opportunity to see what’s new in the industry, keep up to date with the latest innovations and technologies and learn from the best in the business.


Come and join us at Stand 37 to find ways of saving money and developing your business with Netcetera’s award winning Carbon Neutral data hosting solutions.

Come and meet the team and see how you could save up to £600 with FREE Rack Setup! We will also be holding FREE Raffle Draws throughout the day to win some great prizes!

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Netcetera Awarded Datacentre of the Year – Highly Commended

We are very proud to announce that Netcetera came away on the night with a Highly Commended Award from this years EGR B2B awards in the Datacentre of the Year category.

The EGR B2B Awards 2015 were held in London this week.  Its a big night of the year or the egaming service providers and B2B operator’s industry.  Now in it fifth year, it 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.
Netcetera’s Isle of Man Datacentre, The Dataport, offers the e-Gaming industry the most-advanced, carbon zero and cost-effective facilities for housing IT infrastructure available anywhere offshore including the following products and services:
  • Over 16,000 sq foot of Datacentre Space available offering server co-location from single shelf to custom suites, purpose designed expandable space tailored to individuals needs
  • Fully resilient N+1 services including power, air-conditioning and network
  • Low-latency bandwidth – only 10ms from peers at the major European exchange point and Tier 1 transit providers
  • DDOS mitigation
  • Scalable and Highly-Available Cloud Hosting
  • Complimentary suite of Managed Services along with 24/7 experienced support
  • Disaster Recovery as well as a Business Recovery Centre

In addition Netcetera offers:

  • Experience in e-Gaming industry hosting services
  • Consultancy in design and implementation of secure infrastructures
  • Dedicated account managers
  • ISO9001/14001/27001 certified
  • Isle of Man Government Approved Disaster Recovery Provider

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Netcetera is the UK’s most reliable Windows Hosting Company for April

We are very thrilled to announce that Netcetera is once again the Most Reliable Windows Hosting Company, as ranked by Netcraft This is an credible  four in a row that Netcetera have achieved this result.Netcraft April

Netcetera offer an SLA-backed 99.9% uptime guarantee on its services, and exceeds this promise on its own site, with an uptime of 99.97% over the previous year and 99.96% over ten years. The company offers dedicated, managed and colocation solutions based from a Datacentre on the Isle of Man. Amongst other features, the Datacentre is carbon neutral, achieved via a combination of  offsetting and energy-saving technologies.

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 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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Manage your Cloud Service on the move – App for Android now available!

Netcetera are delighted to announce that we have launched our latest product, CloudServer Mobile – an app for your Android that allows you to manage your Cloud Servers on the move!

Features

  • Create and build virtual machines
  • Edit, reboot and power on/off virtual machines
  • Schedule backups for virtual machine disks
  • Monitor CPU, bandwidth and overall cloud resource usage
  • View transaction logs
  • Read more…

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