A year ago when I was writing the last State of the Sanctuary blog post, I had no idea what laid ahead in the months that followed. Like something out of a disaster movie’s early scenes, the news reports of the situation in China were almost just background noise, not garnering much attention. At that …
Wish you could save time scrolling through your team’s chat and just have a quick meeting instead? Now you can turn a chat conversation into an instant remote meeting using @Microsoft Teams feature, “Meet now”. Check it out!
With COVID putting schools and businesses on hiatus, you can connect in ways never done before with @Microsoft Teams. Check out this video to see the innovative ways Imperial College London has made Teams the way to move forward, and contact File Sanctuary to learn more.
We’re pleased to announce support for Ubuntu 20.04 on the File Sanctuary Cloud! Ubuntu 20.04 is the latest LTS (long term support) release of Ubuntu. An LTS release means that maintenance and security updates will be released for this version for the next five years. We’re supporting Ubuntu 20.04 in 64-bit and for those of …
We’re pleased to announce support for Ubuntu 18.04 on the File Sanctuary Cloud! Ubuntu 18.04 is the latest LTS (long term support) release of Ubuntu. An LTS release means that maintenance and security updates will be released for this version for the next five years. We’re supporting Ubuntu 18.04 in 64-bit and for those of …
The old adage that Macs don’t get malware is a dangerous myth Many Mac users don’t bother with antivirus as they don’t see their computers as being as vulnerable as their Windows counterparts. But don’t be fooled, that simply isn’t true. Macs can get viruses, just like any other computer. And there are a lot …
Mac malware is on the increase, don’t get caught out Read More »
The order process for a Cloud Server has a few questions that may be confusing for those unfamiliar with servers and IT jargon. We get asked quite a lot how each question should be answered, so here’s some information you’ll hopefully find useful. PV or HVM If you’ll be running Linux pick PV. For Windows, …
How do I order a Cloud Server, and what is Server Management? Read More »
To ensure a fair and open Internet, the policies surrounding registration and transfer of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are overseen by a non-profit organisation called ICANN. ICANN is changing the rules for domain transfers on December 1, 2016. The old transfer policy was only invoked when transferring a domain between two different registrars, for example, …
What do ICANN’s new domain transfer rules mean for you? Read More »
Starting today we’re pleased to announce for support for Ubuntu 16.04 on the File Sanctuary Cloud! Ubuntu 16.04 is the latest LTS (long term support) release of Ubuntu. An LTS release means that maintenance and security updates will be released for this version for the next five years. We’re supporting Ubuntu 16.04 in both 64-bit …
We’re pleased to announce that starting today, the FreeBSD operating system can now be installed on all HVM Cloud Servers. You can be up and running with your own FreeBSD Cloud Server in just a few minutes! FreeBSD is now the third major operating system family that we host, alongside Linux and Windows, and to …
FreeBSD and pfSense now available on HVM Cloud Servers! Read More »
SSL is not only important for the encryption it provides, it is also a very important tool in building trust amongst your visitors and increasing sales. GlobalSign carried out a survey of European Internet users in November 2014 and their findings highlight some concerning trends and what you can do to stay trustworthy in the …
It’s all about trust: why SSL matters for your website Read More »
We’ve updated our Roundcube webmail service today with some great new features: You can now search across multiple folders in one search — just click the magnifying glass on the left of the search field to find the new options If you have lots of folders, you can now search for them by name — …
PageRank is what Google uses to ascertain the importance of a website and thereby the order it appears in the search results. In a recent blog post Google announced they will be using a websites encryption level, also known as TLS or HTTPS as a ranking factor. Given that 66.2% of the search engine market …
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Over the last year we have been growing our list of available domains to well over a hundred and will continue to add to this list for the foreseeable future. Now you can have domain that best describes you and what you are about. For example there are 600 million groups on Facebook, now you …
Ubuntu 14.04 Ubuntu Server 14.04 is the latest LTS (long term support) release of Ubuntu Server. An LTS release means that maintenance and security updates will be released for this version for the next five years. Ubuntu Server 14.04 introduces full compatibility with the latest and greatest open-source software projects ensuring they can be relied …
In addition to our release of new domain names we have cut the price of three of our popular domains by half. Save 50% on .me .me is an excellent choice for individuals looking for a unique, personalised domain name. Although it is a rapidly growing domain, the overall number of registrations is still fairly …
In the last year we have grown exponentially and we couldn’t have done it without you, our customers. In the past year we’ve added new services, lots of new domains, we’ve built a new website, moved into a new office, and even expanded our team. We’re letting you join in the celebrations too by saving …
What happened? OpenSSL is software that protects your sensitive data as it travels back and forth over the Internet. There has been a bug recently discovered in the OpenSSL TLS Heartbeat implementation that can leak memory contents between your computer and web servers and vice versa. As such this has been named the ‘Heartbleed’ issue. …
The Heartbleed TLS vulnerability — what you need to know Read More »
Until March 31st 2014 you can make a saving on .info and .me! This new for 2014 offer will save you 30% on .info, now only £6.99/year or $11.89/year. Also save a massive 50% on .me, now just £7.49/year or $12.49/year. Simply follow the link below to the domain name pages and sign up today. …
Here at File Sanctuary we realise that while our default spam filter settings will be great for most people, there is no one-size-fits-all solution. As such we have added controls to allow you to customise the spam filter for your email account. Every email you receive is analysed by our SpamAssassin filter and given a …
Right up until December 31, 2013 you can make a massive saving on .co, .mx and .info domains. Save 33%: now just £13.39/year or $22.10/year! From startups and small businesses to big brands and multi-national corporations, the .co domain is the web address of choice for innovation and creativity. .co gives your big ideas a …
Until the 30th of June, we are offering .tv domains for only £13.99/year or $23.99/year! Having a .tv domain is a fine way to let people know you have video content available on your site or even have it as a stand alone domain to show your video content away from your main website. As …
In order to help protect your customer portal account, we’ve now added support for two-factor authentication. Two factor authentication helps protect your account by requiring that you not only know your password, but that you also have something with you — in this case, your smartphone. This is entirely optional, but turning it on makes …
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We’re going retro! You can now meet the File Sanctuary team on IRC in #filesanctuary on irc.freenode.net (if you don’t have an IRC client, you can use the web interface instead). It’s primarily intended as a social space for our team to kick back and talk to our customers about non-work things (and probably post …
Some of our more technically-minded customers may have noticed that we’ve been using IPv6 alongside IPv4 on our own websites and services, and also on the sites of a small group of beta participants for quite some time now — a couple of years, actually! (A huge thank you to those who took part in …
The future is here! IPv6 now fully enabled for everyone. Read More »
At File Sanctuary we take your security very seriously. Sometimes our customers contact us outside of support tickets (eg by phone, using our live chat, etc). When this happens, we need to be sure that you’re really who you say you are, and not someone else pretending to be you. You can now choose a …