Do you ever see 99.9% or the “five nines” – “99.999%”bandied about? Its usually in relation to uptime – how much uptime or conversely downtime your service is up or down for. Pretty important when you want to determine how reliable your service provider is likely to be when you might be hosting your entire.. read more →
DNS is one of the key parts of what makes the internet world go round. Think of it of a big address book of website servers, mail servers and similar. Without a working DNS, a lot of the internet would simply stop working too. If you know how DNS works, then you will already be.. read more →
As email is sent from a mail server and received at the far end and as it travels towards its ultimate email server destination, possibly via other mail servers – a history is built up of its travels in the email header. This email header can be copied and pasted into a mail header analyzer.. read more →
Outlook 2013 – has a new default search when searching for email within your Inbox. The new default is to search the entire mailbox – not just the current folder; whilst this is a welcome improvement that I would love to have seen implemented in earlier versions of Outlook – as a default it’s normally.. read more →
An update has been released for WordPress 3.8 to take it to 3.8.1 (released Jan 23rd 2014). The new automatic update feature released in 3.7 means that almost all websites taking advantage of this feature are now enjoying timely updates – which is good for those wanting to keep on top of security and bugs. Of.. read more →
If you employ staff then you need to know about Auto Enrolment, but if you read the articles and advice then there are a lot of terms which you may not understand. Hopefully my top ten auto enrolment terms can help you make more sense out of what you need to know : Jobholder –.. read more →
