Connectivity & Phones · Explainer
When an access point hears radar it has ten seconds to leave the channel, and checking a fresh one takes a minute, Zero Wait DFS does…
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Cyber Security · Explainer
Microsoft protects the platform - the data centres, the service, the spam filtering. Everything about how your business uses it stays yours: who can sign in,…
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Read guideWeb & Digital · Comparison
Most business sites belong on standard hosting. Move up only once you have measured a real problem - and check the site itself first, because slow…
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Most UK small business websites cost between £3,000 and £10,000 from an agency, or roughly £2,000 to £8,000 for a simpler brochure site. The range is…
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If you can get FTTP, it is the right answer for most businesses. Choose a leased line when a day offline would stop you trading, or…
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Analogue phone lines stop working on 31 January 2027. Anything running on one - desk phones, alarms, lifts, card machines - has to move to a…
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Read guideCloud & Microsoft 365 · Comparison
Premium costs about £6 more per user per month than Standard. You get no extra Office apps and no extra storage for it - the entire…
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Windows 10 support ended on 14 October 2025. The machines still work, but they get no security fixes unless you buy Extended Security Updates - and…
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Read guideCyber Security · Comparison
Antivirus blocks known bad files. EDR spots suspicious behaviour and raises an alert. MDR is EDR with people who act on it. The real question is…
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Read guideIT Support & Managed IT · Buyer's guide
Twelve questions that show how a provider actually works: who does the job, what happens when it goes wrong, and how the price moves. Whether they…
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A good SLA answers three things: how quickly somebody replies, how quickly you are working again, and what happens when neither occurs. One that promises only…
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Backup is a copy of your data. Disaster recovery is how quickly you are working again. Business continuity is how the business keeps trading meanwhile. Most…
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