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Web Wiz Blog > Hosting ServicesEU Cookie Directive, is your Website Ready?24 May 2012 - Posted by Web Wiz Hosting Team, in Hosting Services UK websites will be required to comply with the EU Cookie Directive as of this Saturday 26th May 2012. Is your website in compliance?
On the 26th of May 2011, the EU Cookie Directive became law. The UK Information Commissionaire’s Office (ICO) gave UK websites 12 months to comply with the new Directive. If your website is not in compliance you could be fined up to £500,000.
Under the EU Cookie Directive, any cookie deemed as 'non-essential' that is set by your website or through scripts embedded in your web pages will need to be opt-in and would require consent from the visitor before you can set cookies in their browser.
Many websites owners may not realise that their website set cookies, but if you use Google AdSense, Google Analytics or similar then your website will be settings cookies in the browsers of people visiting your website.
More information on the EU Cookie Directive and how to comply with the guidance can be found on the websites below:- www.ico.gov.uk www.cookielaw.org To help website owners comply with the EU Cookie Directive the cookiesdirective.com has an easy to install script you can add to your website.
If you are using our Web Wiz Forums software on your website you should make sure you are running version 10.11 or above and have the EU Cookie Directive Compliance enabled in your Forums settings. |
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Web Wiz IPv6 Deployment15 May 2012 - Posted by Web Wiz Hosting Team, in Web Wiz News, Hosting Services The Internet uses IP addresses in order to work, the present version of IP Addresses, known as IPv4 is set to run out in some regions within the next 12 months. A new IP Address system known as IPv6 is slowly being introduced.
Web Wiz was allocated our first IPv6 Address allocation from RIPE at the beginning of this year. We have created the following page on IPv6 to inform customers about what IPv6 is and our deployment of IPv6 across our network.
https://www.webwiz.net/IPv6 |
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Web Wiz Becomes an Independent Local Internet Registry (LIR)28 February 2012 - Posted by Web Wiz, in Web Wiz News, Hosting Services Web Wiz is pleased to announce that we are now a Member of RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens) and a Local Internet Registry (LIR).
This places Web Wiz with other major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and allows us to make direct IP address allocations on behalf of our customers. Although the internet is mostly unregulated, the allocation and registration of Internet number resources (IP Addresses) is controlled very carefully by five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). The Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) is an independent, not-for-profit membership organisation and serves as one of five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). Its service region incorporates Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The RIPE NCC is responsible for the allocation and assignment of Internet Protocol (IP) address space, Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) and the management of reverse domain names within RIPE NCC service region. More information on RIPE can be found at www.ripe.net |
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Free Trial on Windows Hosting Packages09 December 2011 - Posted by Web Wiz Hosting Team, in Promotions, Hosting Services Web Wiz is pleased to announce our Free Trial, with no obligation, on all our Windows Hosting Packages including our Single Site, Multi-Site and Reseller Hosting.
All our Windows Hosting Packages come with support for ASP.NET 4, 3, and 2, as well as Classic ASP and PHP and also include SQL Server 2008 R2 and MySQL Databases at no extra cost. Hosted on our own network of Highly Available Clustered Servers, our hosting packages are designed to give maximum uptime and are backed by a 99.9% Uptime Guarantee. Our Free 14 Day Trial will allow you to try our Windows Hosting Packages with no obligation. For more information see our Windows Hosting Free Trial page. |
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New Failover Cluster Hosting09 August 2011 - Posted by Web Wiz Hosting Team, in Web Wiz News, Hosting Services The Web Wiz network upgrade to Failover Clustering was completed last week and all Windows Hosting, Windows Reseller Hosting and Hyper-V Virtual Server Hosting Services have been migrated over to our new Failover Clusters.Our Highly Available Servers hosted on Active Clustered Nodes are able to failover, with no interruption to service, to Passive Clustered Nodes in the event of hardware failure, maintenance, or upgrades. High Availability Failover Hosting for Shared Hosting and Hyper-V Virtual Server Hosting is a similar solution to more expensive solutions used to host high traffic mission critical websites. For more information on the new Web Wiz Failover Clustered Network Architecture have a look at our High Availability Failover Hosting page. |
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