So, you already have a dedicated server or VPS plan to host the website for your business. Your website is running smoothly and business is going well, with no changes to your hosting arrangement needed. You may think that with this server your business’s internet needs will be fulfilled for the foreseeable future. However, there […]
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Installing Percona XtraDB 5.7 Cluster on Centos 7
In this tutorial, we will show you how we configured Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7 on Centos 7 server. This install will be taking advantage of the Percona repositories for Yum. For this build we will require 3 Centos 7 systems. In our case this was done using 3 virtual machines running on a local Lan, […]
Securing Proxmox and SSH using Fail2Ban
Out of the box Proxmox does not have any Brute Force protection in the same way as some other virtualisation technologies do. For example when using VMWare EXSi it will block the SSH port by default and when open add some strict rules on access. As such, for our proxmox servers we wanted to increase […]
How to use ASSP spam filter
Please note, we no longer use ASSP on our UKHost4u servers. We have instead moved on to MailScanner. A guide on how to use that can be found here. The below article is left online for reference only. In our search for an efficient, powerful spam filtering tool we’ve decided to trial The Anti-Spam SMTP […]
What Is Web Hosting? (And Why Do I Need It?)
Registering a domain name is the first box you need to tick if you want to set up a website for your business. However, by itself, a domain name does not enable you to build a website. To build a website, you also need web hosting. What is Web Hosting? A web host is how […]
5 ways to prepare your website for Christmas
Christmas is the busiest and most profitable time of the year for most shops, with millions of shoppers taking to the streets to stock up on food, drinks, and gifts for loved ones. Businesses can expect a huge increase in sales across nearly every industry as shoppers scramble to get presents for their family and […]
