Data Sovereignty: Why UK Businesses Can No Longer Ignore It

Data sovereignty has rapidly become an important consideration in managed hosting for UK businesses. Once viewed as a technical detail best left to IT providers, it is now firmly a commercial, legal, and reputational issue. Data sovereignty refers to the principle that data is governed by the laws of the country in which it is […]
Why the Number of Websites on Your Server Matters

And Why eCommerce Needs its own Server Imagine your website lives in an apartment building. In some buildings, there are thousands of neighbours all sharing the same electricity, water, and internet. In others, there are just a hundred — more space, less noise, better service. For ecommerce, even a hundred neighbours can be too many […]
Not All Website Hosting is Created Equal

Editor’s Note (April 2026): This article was first published in May 2020, when the website hosting market looked very different and the threats facing UK businesses were a fraction of what they are today. Six years on, I’ve decided to refresh the piece with a fully updated 2026 perspective. The original article sits below for […]
