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2021 in Numbers
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As we reach the end of what has been another difficult year for many, we wanted to share a few numbers that we are proud of. 82 This is our NPS score – it stands for Net Promoter Score and is a measure of customer satisfaction on a scale from -100 to 100. Anything…
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100 tonnes of CO2e
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With COP26 underway, we’re hoping for some big announcements. With so many fantastic organisations helping us all to reduce our environmental impact, it’s already getting easier to do the right thing. We’ve talked before about our tree planting (now at 2,000 trees 🌲) but we also purchase high quality, Gold Standard carbon offsets. Carbon…
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Email Upgrades
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Our email system has always been a cut above the rest – but there’s always room for improvement. Throughout September we’ve been improving two key aspects of our email system. These email upgrades have now been rolled out to all users. Spam Filtering Following testing across thousands of emails, first on our own server…
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Climate Positive
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Climate issues are currently big news due to an increasing number of climate events and protests. It’s now over 10 years since we started powering our servers with renewable energy and introduced our environmental policy. It’s easier than ever to stay green now, with paper-free billing pretty much ubiquitous and a wide choice of…
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Introducing NetWeaver Labs
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As is the case with many geeks, we always like to have a little side project on the go. Where we create a successful project which we want to continue, it ends up in NetWeaver Labs. This has created a small portfolio of useful services which are all completely free and operated for the…
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Stratum-1 NTP server on Raspberry Pi
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We’ve run our own Stratum-2 time server, operating as part of the ntp public pool, for some time. In the past we’ve synchronised this clock with a number of public Stratum-1 servers provided by organisations such as Leo Bodnar Electronics and the University of Suffolk. Inspired by the setup at Bytemark, we set about creating…
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IPv6 use in 2019
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What is IPv6? Historically the internet has used IPv4 to assign IP addresses to individual devices – however, these are quickly running out so IPv6 was introduced to solve the problem. There are a theoretical 3.4×1038 IPv6 addresses. The rollout of IPv6 has been very slow, it was released back in 1998 and still…
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18 Today
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February 27, 2001, was a very exciting day for us – it’s when we officially launched. Today we’re celebrating our 18th Birthday and 18 years of lovable, independent web hosting. Thank you to our amazing customers, both past and present. We treated ourselves to a little cake from Finch Bakery to celebrate and look…
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Why Buy Local ?
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Why should I buy local? Before your next purchase from a large online retailer or a large multinational corporation stop and think, “Can I buy this from a local small business?” Although you may believe that choosing to give your business to large companies will result in a better end product, as well as more support…
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Goodbye TLS 1.0
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TLS is a system used to establish encrypted connections between two computer systems – such as when you visit a secure website or connect to a server to download your email. TLS 1.0 History It was first introduced in 1999 as an upgrade of SSL Version 3.0, written by Christopher Allen and Tim Dierks of…