May 14th 2012
all servers are now upgraded to 1Gbit connections.

May 9th 2012
So your website has been hacked? #salvagemysite http://t.co/mOjhgegC

April 25th 2012
the cobalt platform is back up and running now.

April 25th 2012
we?re aware of an issue with cobalt. We?re investigating now.

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VAT Changes In The UK

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

From 1st December 2008 VAT (Value Added Tax) in the UK will drop from 17.5% to 15%. Our prices have always been displayed as ex vat on our website thus we will be passing the full saving of this tax cut to our customers.
Shopping cart amounts will drop automatically as will renewals and manual [...]

nolisting – The move to Trap25

Friday, November 7th, 2008

nolisting – an obscure technical geek term that means nothing to normal people. It’s actually a very effective way to combat spam. Well, actually it’s a very effective way to combat spammer methodology.
Spammers are impatient people. Their margins, such as they are, depend on getting their message on as many machines in a short a [...]

syslog-ng – The move to Trap25

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

I’m not sure if any of you know Linux or Unix for that matter, but there is a centralised logging system called syslog. It’s one of the oldest parts of *nix and is by modern standards, horrendously out of date. It logs system data and events to flat files… only flat files.
As part of Trap25 [...]