The impact of data loss or unavailability is an area of concern to any business that associates any level of importance to their online presence. The level of concern is determined by the available budget and also the costs associated with data either being permanently lost or data just being unavailable for any period of time.
Choosing the right data protection policy is determined by:
budget
the costs associated with data either being permanently lost
the costs associated with data just being unavailable for any period of time

Overview of the origin and reason for ISO standards and the specifics of the ISO27000 standards. What does such an accreditation lend clients and consumers of hosting services?
History
Aim
What is the ISO27000 family all about?
ISMS
ISO27001
ISO27002
What makes an ISMS?

Load balancing is a technology used in the dedicated hosting arena to spread work across a number of servers with the goal of increasing capacity, speeding up response times and avoiding downtime.
Areas covered within this guide are:
server health checks
load balancing strategies
persistence
SSL offloading
Solution separation
Layer4 Vs Layer6

Performing regular server backups is a must for every business that uses online applications for email, databases, websites or ecommerce. Your business cannot afford to lose this vital information.
UKFast’s intelligent backup facility guarantees that all business-critical data is backed up right up to the moment catastrophe strikes, ready to serve again.

How considering risk in information security should not be feared but embraced as a methodolgy to ensure confidence, innovation and development for both employees and customers.
The importance of embracing risk in our activities.
Assessing risk.
Controlling risk.

An overview of what Information Security means, what it is and how it should be approached by businesses.

The ability to provide 100% solution uptime is the Holy Grail of the web hosting industry… At UKFast we are very lucky. We have hugely qualified (or should I say certified) Microsoft and Red Hat engineers, who have the industry knowledge and experience to architect solutions to achieve the stated goal.

Why representing or thinking of information security as a padlock, safe or other ’secure’, static object is to present an ‘opportunity’ for the breach and exploitation of information assets. What organisations may be affected by the threat of such vulnerabilities and how organisations should ensure they are best protected.

Earlier this week we held a very illuminating round table discussion on the travel industry online at UKFast’s offices in City Tower Manchester.
Bringing in experts from around the UK, we had:
Joel Brandon Bravo, UK MD of TravelZoo
Richard Nash, business director at CSI Media
James Brooke, MD of Rooster
Brian Povey, tourism project manager, Mersey Partnership
Lawrence [...]

Rupert Murdoch would have us all believe that “paying for content online is right and that aggregators like Google that use newspaper content but don’t pay for it are doing something wrong.” (BBC article). And he’s actually got a level of support behind him…from the traditional print media that is.
Johnson Press, the UK’s largest regional [...]