hosting365 was positioned in seventh place at the annual Technology Forum hosted by Deloitte. The Fast 50 Programme, as it is known, is now in its eight year and ranks the fastest-growing technology companies in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Read the rest of this entry »
Top Irish online travel company Gohop.ie has chosen hosting365, Ireland’s largest and leading hosting services provider, to service over 150,000 Irish visitors per month Read the rest of this entry »
Byrne is responsible for the driving the strategic development of hosting365 into new markets, and diversifying the product range across a variety of sectors. Byrne is also responsible for creating and operating an effective organisational structure, and setting departmental budgets and key performance indicators. Read the rest of this entry »
Iron Mountain have ‘lost‘ 2 truck loads of tapes in the space of a month. There’s a few reasons why this is a huge story and a significant hit to their customers business as well as their own.
The data on the tapes can be cracked, as they admit ‘using sophisticated equipment’, which really means someone with know-how can do it. Depending on what the data is, it may be used for all types of fraud by the thief, as well as the fact that the backup data copy is now gone and there a security hole to be plugged here until it is replicated again.
Of course if you have any sense you wouldn’t touch tape backup any more - it’s an antiquated technology. It rely’s on a poor medium, manual processes, and has logistical issues. Backing up on more reliable media like a redundant array of hard drives through a VPN in an off-site secure data centre makes much more sense. (heehee … and guess who can provide this for you? !!)
And the great thing about this Moore’s Law business is that the kind of system I just mentioned is not only FAR FAR better than tape backup, it’s also cheaper to do. Faster … more reliable … easier to access and restore … automated and secure : it boggles the mind that many CTO’s and SME’s still consider tape backup a viable solution.
Orla Stafford has been appointed marketing executive at Hosting365. Stafford will look after web sponsorship, website content management, customer communications and event management for the hosting company. Read the rest of this entry »
Hosted Anti-Virus is more secure and reliable than local machine software, because the virus never even gets to your PC and you are not responsible for regualr updates.
From Business and Finance
McAfee customers were left bewildered recently when their antivirus program began attacking legimate third-party applications as malware. The problem was caused by an update that McAfee issued for its popular antivirus software, with hundreds of executables wrongly flagged as W95/CTX, low-risk Windows 95 malware. Among the applications affected were Microsoft Excel, Flash, Google Toolbar and Adaptec drivers. McAfee published a list of about 330 programs known to have conflicts with the update, but experts have speculated that the true figure is much greater. Operating systems across the board were afftected by the mistake.
This is just one example of the many ways local Anti-Virus software can let you down. The primary issue of course is that unless you are in a highly controlled corporate IT environment, the responsibility for protecting your computer is actually yours - not the anti-virus software provider. This is because you must make sure the software is up to date with the latest definitions.
Hosted Anti-Virus is by no means perfect … since it really only protects your email … but the majority of incoming files to your PC do originate via email. If you protect your email service with a hosted anti-virus service, any infected mails will be detected and quarantined before they ever get to your machine, preventing any threat of an infection.
Hosting365, Irelands largest and leading hosting services provider, presented Webfactory with the Web Development Company Award of the year at the 2007 ICT Expo Excellence Awards. Read the rest of this entry »
Hosting 365 Number 1 Reseller for .ie domains in 2006 Read the rest of this entry »
It’s funny … when I joined hosting365 I had just setup Roundcube as my webmail client (I was a customer before I became an employee!) and it took about 30 mins (and I’m not a techie!), so naturally I thought it could be deployed within the same time for all customers.
Clearly I was wrong … there’s so much more to consider when innovating for a 30% of the Irish market than when playing with webmail for 1 person 
However, after much work and testing (remember Roundcube is still beta) we’ve launched it for ALL OUR CUSTOMERS!
Just go to webmail.hosting365.com, and enter your email address and password - it’s that simple! No need to enter domains, no need to go through control panels.
In case you’re interested, the reason it couldn’t be launched in 30 minutes, is that we process 40 million emails a month, so you can image the impact of a IMAP based webmail client on our infrastructure!
Innovation is hard .. much harder in a big company .. but it’s worth it, and as you can see (ref: FREE BLOG PLAN !!!!) we’re really trying.
Expect to see more innovations over the coming months! In fact, why not use this blog for what’s it’s really mean’t - and post in the comments the kind of innovations YOU’D like to see from a hosting company. PLEASE!!!
Privateseller.ie, Ireland’s largest dedicated private property sales website, is reaching over 20,000 visitors a month and the traffic continues to increase on a daily basis, powered by Ireland’s leading Internet Infrastructure Provider - hosting365