When it comes to optimising your business’s digital infrastructure, making informed decisions is crucial. At HostingUK.net, we understand that choosing the right email and productivity solution can be a daunting task. In this article, we aim to demystify the distinctions between Exchange Online and Office 365 plans, making it easier for you to decide which one suits your unique requirements. Exchange Online – Business Grade email and protection. Think of Exchange Online as your reliable email champion, tirelessly managing and securing your communication channels. Hosting your professional emai ..read more

From November 1st, we must put some of our domain pricing up because our suppliers have increased their cost prices to us. Hosting UK is still highly competitive with our domain name pricing – our renewals are priced the same as our registrations – unlike many of the other larger companies out there – always worth checking! Some registrars charge over £29 for a single-year renewal of a .com domain name (excluding VAT!). Hosting UK’s new price for a .com is £12.99 (excluding VAT) per year registration/renewal.  We will keep our domain prices as low as possible, we promise.  Details of ..read more

Email is an essential tool for communication, but email security is a growing concern for individuals and businesses. Email fraud is a significant issue, and it can be challenging to verify the authenticity of email messages. However, SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records can help protect against email fraud and ensure the authenticity of email messages. Many large providers are insisting on these records to receive email these days, DKIM in particular is a hot topic for Gmail for example. To help identify some of key components of DNS and email security we have produced a helpful list below… SPF (Send ..read more

From Microsoft. Source: https://news.microsoft.com/europe/2023/01/05/consistent-global-pricing-for-the-microsoft-cloud/ Begins: Today, we are announcing that Microsoft is taking several steps to align the pricing of our Microsoft Cloud products globally, meaning customers will have consistent pricing reflecting the exchange rate of the local currency to the US dollar (USD). Starting April 1, 2023, pricing for Microsoft Cloud products will be adjusted in the following currencies: GBP: +9% DKK, EUR, NOK: +11% SEK: + 15% In the future, Microsoft will assess pricing in local currency as part of ..read more

As we all get more accustomed to the cloud-based lives we lead, ‘everything, everywhere, all the time’ becomes the norm. We rely less on physically located single servers doing one thing (well), but with a single point of vulnerability and, therefore, potential failure & downtime.  This is where Microsoft Exchange Online comes in… Previously customers would have hosted Exchange servers in-house or relied on excellent hosting companies maintaining Exchange platforms in their own data centres.  Whilst there was an often-enormous overhead on the maintenance of these systems, both CA ..read more

This is just a quick post highlighting the positive feedback our teams regularly get at Hosting UK. Of course, our teams are never ones to blow their own trumpets, but they do work tirelessly to help get you guys online and keep you online, so all the trumpeting below is from you… As you can see from our Trust Pilot area, we get regular positive feedback from our loyal customers, so I thought I’d highlight a few of our recent favourites…. You can find loads more on Trust Pilot by clicking here – you will also find some negative ones – but rest assured, we always follow these up and like to ..read more

Microsoft have announced cost price changes for all Microsoft 365 subscriptions. As a result of these changes, our package prices are increasing. There are ways to help with some of these price increases, for example if you are paying monthly, switch to annual up-front payments and lock those prices with Hosting UK.  Simply raise a ticket or hit Live Chat and we will be happy to help to move to an annual subscription, which will lock in your prices for that term. Our pricing (ex vat) for March/April 2022 is as follows… Microsoft 365 Business Basic Monthly £5.95 | Annually £59.40 (Equivale ..read more

As part of our continual focus on Security at HostingUK, we recently upgraded our payment platform.  This was in preparation for changes coming in March 2022 and relates to big improvements in how we all process & use credit/payment cards in the UK and Europe. It’s something called SCA (Secure Card Authentication). From March 2022, SCA will come will be enforced by banks, which means we all get far more protection whenever we transact online.  SCA? What’s all this now? SCA is basically a system that puts everyone in control of payments for example, you may have had to a ..read more

Researchers at security company Qualys discovered 21 vulnerabilities in Exim, a popular mail server, which can be chained to obtain “a full remote unauthenticated code execution and gain root privileges on the Exim Server.”. Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA), responsible for receiving and forwarding email messages. It runs primarily on Unix or Linux and is also the main MTA used on cPanel. According to one recent survey nearly 60 per cent of mail servers visible on the internet use Exim. The Qualys researchers have now reported on 21 critical vulnerabilities discovered via a code audit, 10 o ..read more

Microsoft is rebranding Microsoft Office 365 to Microsoft 365 on April 21st 2020 which will reflect a wider range of product offerings. Since its launch in 2011 Office 365 has grown immensely and the number of services and subsets now includes not just Office but tools for small business and enterprise to manage their entire IT estate, in fact so much that its pretty much transformed who Microsoft is today and so changing to Microsoft 365 make complete sense. As part of this rebrand some Office 365 products will be renamed: Office 365 Business Essentials will be renamed Microsoft 365 Business ..read more