Insights

Is it just me or is my website slow?

We’ve all been there. You’re sitting in a meeting, and someone casually mentions, “Is it just me, or is our website slow?“. The room goes silent for a moment, and everyone star...

WordPress: Vulnerable plugin Forminator

Should I be worried? Well, this vulnerability is a biggy, with over 400,000 installations and allowing arbitrary file uploads, there will be a lot of compromised WordPress sites that use the affected...

Azure AD vs Microsoft Entra ID?

Microsoft has decided to rename Azure Active Directory (AAD) to Microsoft Entra ID (As of this post’s writing, no acronym has been offered by Microsoft). This change reinforces Microsoft’s...

The Pipe Ten Brand

Being embedded within such a fast-moving industry for over 20 years, our mission has evolved, but we’ve remained true to our vision and values. Our brand, mission, vision and values allow us to ...

WordPress: Vulnerable plugin HTTP Headers

WordPress, as prevalent as it is, running a massive 43% of the websites on the internet, will always have baddies poking a prodding for ways to put their malicious code/redirects/links/spam/emailing o...

SHORT: Let’s Encrypt Android Support in 2024

TLDR; Let’s Encrypt, the free SSL provider, has announced it’ll stop issuing and allow the intermediate SSL certificate to expire during 2024*, which enabled continued support for Android ...

Monitoring beyond failure

When discussing monitoring, the focus is often only on how we detect things that have failed and how quickly we can find them, but this is a small part of monitoring and is worthy of expansion. Monito...

Load balancing software considerations

A load balancer is a device or software that distributes network or application traffic across a number of backend servers. Its primary purpose is to enhance the reliability and performance of applica...

We still do web hosting!

We love it when customers pay attention to changes we make and provide feedback; there’s always something new to learn! It’s often difficult to take a moment and communicate incremental sm...

Direct participation in Faster Payments

What is faster payments? Faster Payments (herein FP) is a banking platform which helps reduce payment times between the customers of different banks. FP was designed so transacting payments takes seco...

Case Study: Supporting growth with on-premise infrastructure

This study explores areas where the utilisation of on-premise compute power is preferable to public cloud computing, looking at a scenario where our client brsk in partnership with Pipe Ten Hosting ch...

Current state of public cloud adoption

Public Cloud refers to an IT model of offering Cloud computing services available on demand over the public internet. This differs from Private Cloud offerings which provide isolated environments for ...

Demystifying Domain Names

Welcome to the world of digital real estate, where your domain name is as significant as your business address. In this series of posts on our Purely.Website website, we will explore the depths of dom...