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Web Wiz is pleased to announce that ASP.NET 6 RC 2 is available on our Windows Server 2022 Web Hosting Packages which are available with a 30-day free trial for those who wish to try out Microsoft's new ASP.NET 6.

For more information on ASP.NET 6 Web Hosting available from Web Wiz, please see;

Microsoft ASP.NET 6 Web Hosting.

In 2001, Bruce Corkhill founded Web Wiz while studying computing at Bournemouth University. Web Wiz was initially launched as Web Wiz Guide (www.webwizguide.com) on 3rd September 2001, offering a range of Web Applications written by Bruce along with Web Hosting Services.

We mainly focused on producing Web Applications during the first five years but found that many web hosts were not up to hosting database-driven web applications. Our web hosting soon became very popular through word-of-mouth, and our reputation for fast and reliable web hosting developed. We still rely on word-of-mouth today as we continue to grow.

While we have always strived to provide green hosting solutions and support conservation charities, the data centres that we were using did not share our ethics. To address this, we opened our own eco-friendly Data Centre in 2018 powered by on-site solar power generation and Tesla battery storage. We are now one of the most sustainable web hosting providers globally.

As we celebrate the 20th anniversary at Web Wiz, we all feel proud of what we have accomplished, and we are excited about the next 20 years.

We want to thank each of our 10,000 customers who have been with us on this journey, we do appreciate it, and we look forward to serving you for many years to come.

Windows Server 2022 web hosting is now here! Our new Windows Green Hosting Packages forthwith use the Windows Server 2022 platform.

Windows Server 2022 supports TLS 1.3 and HTTP/3, making websites both more secure and run faster.

HTTP/3, uses QUIC a new protocol developed by Google that uses multiplexed connections between two endpoints over User Datagram Protocol (UDP). With less overhead HTTP/3  will lower latency and speed up load times for websites and web-based API's.

Web Wiz, Windows 2022 Web Servers have been enabled for TLS 1.3 and HTTP/3. Once you have added your website to our platform, all customers need to do is add an SSL certificate to their website to enable TLS 1.3 and HTTP/3.

For more information on all our Web Hosting Packages see; www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/

Telia is the third Tier 1 provider joining Lumen and Cognet to connect our Data Centre directly to the Internet backbone using diverse fibre circuits to POPs in; Telehouse North, London Docklands - Cogent, Canary Wharf, London - Equinix, LD5, Slough.

Each of our three Tier 1 transit partners, Lumen, Cogent, and Telia, are consistently ranked by CAIDA's as having the most extensive global networks. Selecting the three largest Tier 1 network providers reduces the number of networks traffic needs to traverse to reach our Data Centre for faster low latency connections.

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.