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Cogent Transit Partner

20 April 2021, in Eco Data Centre

Web Wiz is pleased to welcome our new IP transit partner Cogent, which will enhance network connections to our Data Centre.

Cogent is a Tier 1 transit provider, joining Lumen (formally CenturyLink) to connect our Data Centre directly to the Internet backbone by multiple POP's (Point-Of-Presence).

A new ethernet fibre circuit utilising Virgin Media's network adds additional routes connecting our Data Centre to Cogent Communications POP in the heart of London's Docklands.

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Web Wiz Achieves Cyber Essentials Plus Certification

07 April 2021, in Web Wiz News

Web Wiz has achieved Cyber Essentials Plus Certification. Cyber Essentials Plus is a UK government information assurance scheme operated by the National Cyber Security Centre.

The Plus Certification is awarded to companies who can demonstrate they meet strict security standards, including secure configuration, firewalls, user access control, malware protection, and patch management.

The Certification acts to reassure Web Wiz customers that we are working to the highest cybersecurity standards.

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PHP 8.0 Web Hosting

04 February 2021, in Hosting Services

PHP 8.0 the next major release of the PHP language that contains many new features and optimisations is now available on all our Green Web Hosting Packages.

Included is support for the previous PHP 7.x and customers can set which PHP version they prefer to use from their website settings within their Hosting Control Panel.

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Web Wiz Carbon Offsetting 2019-2020

30 November 2020, in Web Wiz News

As an eco-conscious company, we aim to keep our carbon emission as near to zero as we can, with the majority of our the electricity generated from our on-site solar array.

While our carbon footprint is small, we have still produced a small amount of CO2 over the past year which we have offset through Carbon Footprint Ltd [Carbon Neutral Certificate 2019-2020].

Our contributions go toward Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) approved projects to reduce deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest and local tree-planting projects here in the UK.

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ASP.NET 5 Web Hosting Is Here!

11 November 2020, in Hosting Services

Microsoft yesterday released ASP.NET 5 the next major release of .NET Core Framework intended to replace former Classic ASP.NET Framework.

Web Wiz is excited to announce that ASP.NET 5 is available on all our Windows Server 2019 Web Hosting Packages and Reseller Web Hosting Packages which are available with a 30-day free trial for those who wish to try out Microsoft's new ASP.NET 5.

For more information on ASP.NET 5 Web Hosting available from Web Wiz, please see;

Microsoft ASP.NET 5 Web Hosting.

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