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Web Application Firewall
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What’s a Web Application Firewall (WAF)? A Web Application Firewall, or WAF, is a special type of firewall that stands in front of your website. It monitors the requests going to your website, looking for signs that a bad actor is trying to exploit some of your code. When it detects signs of this,…
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CentOS Mirror
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Our history with CentOS Back before the millennium – before Jacob was even born – we tried a few different linux distributions to see which would fit best for our exciting new web hosting service. Eventually we settled on RedHat Linux, version 6.0 at the time – known as Hedwig – later used as…
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Pi-hole advert blocking
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Whatever your views on the moralities of blocking adverts, there’s no denying they can be ridiculously intrusive at times. There is a whole host of ways to block them with plugins being the most common. They can, however, slow down your browsing at times so when we heard about Pi-Hole we wanted to give it…
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Helmshore FC Sponsorship
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When Sam, manager, and player for Helmshore FC got in touch to ask if we would help them out with some sponsorship we were delighted to help them out. Who are Helmshore FC? Helmshore FC (previously known as Astro Athletic) are a group of lads who play in the Spring Junior League: Division 1…
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Apple Pay
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We now accept payment by Apple Pay for users of Safari on macOS and recent iPhones. Apple Pay is simple to use and works with the devices you use every day. Easily pay with your debit cards and credit cards with just a touch. And because your card details are never shared by Apple when…
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Merry Christmas
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We’ll be open throughout the Christmas period, though we may be a little slower to respond during Christmas day and New Years day – don’t worry though, everything will be monitored throughout. As always, thank you for your custom this year. We’d like to with you a very Merry Christmas and all the best…
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Cost of SSL
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We offer free SSL (that is, https access) with all our hosting packages, we believe all sites should have it and don’t see it as an upselling opportunity. What is the cost of SSL with other providers? You may be surprised! I searched ‘web hosting’ on Google – and checked out the cost with…
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Solus 1.1 Review
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Here at NetWeaver we are big fans of linux and it’s many derivatives. We have used CentOS and Ubuntu exclusively for our servers for a number of years now, and even use a form of Linux for most of our desktops – allbeit ChromeOS (with the rest running OS X, a BSD spinoff). I decided to…
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15 years of hosting
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The 27th February 2001 saw the launch of NetWeaver.com Limited and today we celebrate 15 years of hosting. 15 years ago A lot happened in 2001 : Sven-Göran Ericsson became the England manager We saw the outbreak of the Foot and mouth crisis The Eden Project opened to the public Manchester United won the FA Premier League title for the third…
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Two-Factor Authentication is now available
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You are now able to use two-factor authentication when logging into your accounts. Two-factor authentication adds an extra layer of security – when you login, you also need to enter a code that is generated on your smart phone. This is very beneficial as it provides another security measure to your account. Enabling two-factor…