Backups are critical to your business

Since the days of tape and floppy disks, creating a backup of business data has been accepted practice. Yet, there are still many companies that ignore the advice, or only take irregular snapshots of documents, databases, website designs, corporate literature and other files. In the cloud era, making backups is simpler than ever. Set up …

4 plugins to harden your WordPress

IMPORTANT! Ensure you’ve taken a backup of your WordPress files and database before making any of these changes.   This guide will show you how to… Hide your WordPress login page from hackers, change your WordPress admin username if it’s set to the vulnerable default “Admin” user, harden your database against MySQL injection attacks and …

Veeam Case Study

Catalyst2 prides itself on the premier hosting services it provides to clients, in particular to small and medium-sized businesses. That’s one reason why the company virtualized 100 percent of its shared hosted services. Not only has virtualization improved the efficiency and availability of clients’ resources, but it has also reduced Catalyst2’s capital costs by increasing …

Blog Post On 64forsuu – An International Campaign

Campaigning has never been an activity with long lead-times. Yet the 64ForSuu.org campaign site in support of Burma’s illegally imprisoned democratically elected leader – Aung San Suu Kyi – was pulled together in just 6 days. Read Full Post

Dell And Catalyst2 Video On Virtualisation

Dell in partnership with catalyst2 have produced the below video looking at the virtualisation platform that we currently use for all shared hosting and large part of our dedicated services.

Managed servers v. unmanaged servers

Whether you run a multinational corporation, or you have just launched a flourishing start-up, selecting a hosting service that will incorporate all of your company’s software and hardware is a crucial aspect of any business. Fundamentally, your choices can be resolved into two options; managed servers and unmanaged servers. To help you decide which service …