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Expanding PCI Compliance to Accommodate Security Demand

The importance of security has grown exponentially as sensitive data is passed through more and more digital channels and made more vulnerable by online transactions. Many of our customers in the banking and online payment industries have expressed a marked increase in PCI compliant capabilities…

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New Phishing Threat Revealed

The importance of choosing the right website hosting company has been reiterated by a report that revealed phishers have developed new techniques for their attacks.

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Cloud Hosting: What's it all about?

For years, webmasters have been chained to their desks. If you wanted a web application, you could rent some space on a server, somewhere, or keep one under your desk - either way, a lot of hassle. The advent of cloud hosting - combining cloud computing, cloud servers and cloud storage - has changed all that.

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PEER 1 Hosting Claims ‘Challenger’ Status in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting, North America

PEER 1 Hosting has been positioned as a ‘Challenger’ in the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant, focused on Managed Hosting, no doubt due to the outstanding work achieved by our teams across North America and beyond...

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PEER 1 Hosting gets bigger in EMEA

Today we celebrated the official opening of our brand new EMEA headquarters in Southampton, as well as new offices across London, Nice (France) and the anniversary of our Portsmouth data center.

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PEER 1 Hosting Launches Mission Critical Cloud at Cloud Connect

Our primary objective here at PEER 1 Hosting is to provide our customers with choices. That mentality has always applied to services, locations, billing, etc., so it was a natural progression for us to take that same idea and apply it to cloud computing.

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Information Age awards: Cast your vote now!
Rajan Sodhi
Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 11:02
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 PEER 1 Hosting is a proud contender in the Information Age awards for two categories: Green IT and Data Centres.

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PEER 1 Pub Quiz: We Get Quizzical
Rajan Sodhi
Friday, February 17, 2012 - 07:25
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Last night we were delighted to host our first ‘PEER 1 Pub Quiz’ for over 40 journalists from across an array of technology titles including The Register, ZDNet and Information Age.

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PEER 1 Playroom Expands
Rajan Sodhi
Friday, February 17, 2012 - 04:06
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Here at PEER 1 Hosting, we believe in work hard play hard. You may have heard we have a miniature golf course, a dart board and a Nintendo Wii to fuel this mentality.

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Green IT Awards Honor PEER 1
Rajan Sodhi
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 07:15
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We are pleased to announce that we have been shortlisted for not one, but two Green IT awards … Environmental Project of the Year in the Private sector AND IT Operator of the Year. The latter is decided by public vote.

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DDoS Attacks: Security Report Points to the "Why"
Rajan Sodhi
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 03:24
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Arbor Networks®, in cooperation with the broader operational security community, has completed the seventh edition of an ongoing series of annual security surveys. With the findings released last week, this survey, covering roughly a 12-month period from October 2010 through September 2011, is designed to provide industry-wide data to network operators.

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PEER 1 Leadership: Soccer Mentality
Rajan Sodhi
Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 12:32
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Not many people know this about me, but I love soccer, or – as my colleagues across the pond call it – football. My four daughters all play and have for years. However, it was not until this last year in an incident with my 7-year-old that I realized a great parallel between the sport I love and personal leadership.

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Web Hosting Infographic Shows Evolution
Rajan Sodhi
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 15:13
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Web hosting looks very different today than it did 20 years ago. In 1991, when "www" was first released to the public, you needed to purchase and manage your own computer or server to host a website.

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