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What is a UK hosting company actually worth?
Most owners either wildly over-value or wildly under-value their hosting book. Here is the multiple buyers actually use, what moves it up and down, and how to sanity-check your own number before you talk to anyone.
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How to sell a hosting client base without losing the customers
The money in a hosting sale is tied to customers staying. Here is how to prepare the book, run the handover and say the right things at the right time, from someone who has been on the receiving end of both good and bad handovers.
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What is an Apache server? An in-depth overview of apache web server software
Apache is one of the most popular open-source web servers, prized for its reliability, flexibility and scalability. Here is an in-depth look at what it is and how it works.
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What is WHOIS Privacy? Everything You Need to Know About It
WHOIS is the public record of who owns a domain. What it still shows since 2018, the free .uk opt-out most people miss, and when privacy is worth buying.
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5 min read
Maximising the Benefits of Cloud Computing: The Latest Trends and Strategies
From multi-cloud and hybrid strategies to edge computing and cloud-native apps, we explore the trends shaping cloud computing and how businesses can benefit.
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6 min read
Why you should choose Joomla
From being award-winning, free and open source to multilingual, secure, SEO friendly and backed by 7,000+ extensions, here are the reasons to choose Joomla for your next site.
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Popular Joomla Extensions
A round-up of popular free Joomla extensions for eCommerce and shopping carts, forums and social networks, and niche websites to help power your next Joomla project.
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What is NGINX? A basic overview of what it is and how it works
NGINX is an open-source web server that is also used as a reverse proxy, HTTP cache and load balancer. Here is a basic overview of what it is and how it works.
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What is FTP?
FTP is how websites got uploaded for thirty years. Here is what it does, which client software to use, and why SFTP replaced it.
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