Ransomware is malicious software that locks or encrypts an organisation’s data and systems, then demands payment to restore them. Today’s attacks usually go further: criminals steal data first and threaten to publish it if the victim doesn’t pay....
No business is immune to cyber attacks. Ransomware was involved in 48% of breaches in Verizon’s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report, and attackers increasingly get in through unpatched systems and suppliers. What separates a bad week from a business-ending...
Running a web hosting business has never been simple, but 2026 brings a particular mix of pressures: rising licence costs, AI bots hammering servers, faster and more automated attacks, and customers who expect instant, expert support at any hour. This guide covers the...
Not every team wants to assemble load balancers, auto-scaling groups and deployment pipelines by hand. AWS Elastic Beanstalk lets you upload your application code and have AWS create and manage the infrastructure to run it, while you keep full access to the underlying...
Every website, online store and business email account runs on a hosting service, and every hosting service needs people to keep it running and help customers when something goes wrong. For hosting providers, support quality is often what wins or loses customers. This...
A decade ago, Hadoop was almost synonymous with big data. Companies built large on-premises clusters to store and process data that wouldn’t fit in traditional databases. In 2026 the big data landscape looks very different: cloud data warehouses, lakehouses and...
