You and thousands of other developers have trusted Bytemark since Peter and I founded the company in 2002. Since then we’ve built our own cloud hosting platform, our own data centre in York, and hundreds of custom managed hosting solutions. We’ve built our own support & engineering teams, after first building our own anonymous recruitment […]
Read moreBack in 2013, I wrote about how the hosting industry is losing customers to proprietary mail platforms. I also announced that we would be supporting Geary, the email client from Yorba. Unfortunately, the Geary campaign didn’t reach the target they set. Even though that campaign didn’t work out, I still believed that supporting the development of free […]
Read moreIn October 2016 there was a significant denial-of-service attack (DDoS) which took down Netflix, Reddit, Twitter and other big internet services. People noticed slow-loading pages, not being able to watch a favourite show, or even having their whole work day grind to a halt: The whole internet is down, so I guess I'm calling a snow […]
Read moreBytemark Cloud is the hosting platform that we built in-house back in 2012. Originally, it was called BigV, but in 2016 we felt the time was right to rebrand the service. Bytemark Cloud still provides the same reliable hosting that you’ve used since 2012, it’s just a new name! Though we will, of course, continue to ship […]
Read moreBytemark’s offices have long been missing that vital component of any tech company – wall-hanging status displays! I want to show off some vital statistics: support satisfaction statistics for our support team, the railcams, sales figures – all that movie stuff! Easy, right? We’ll use Raspberry Pis to do the display – they’re cheap and easily hidden behind […]
Read moreOur first recruits from this process are starting this week, and we’re still interviewing right now. It’s been an almost entirely positive experience, particularly compared to our previous rather casual recruitment methods.
Read moreAt the end of 2015, we updated the content across our entire website. Once we launched the changes, we noticed that our employment page was one area that could still use some improvements. That got us thinking, what can we do to improve our hiring process as a whole? There is no “cultural fit” We […]
Read moreAs you may know, Bytemark bought its own building and built a data centre in York back in 2013. Previously, we had been renting data centre space in Manchester since 2008. Initially, we didn’t think we would go to the hassle of moving people across. Until we got our renewal quote from our suppliers in […]
Read moreI finally took a leisurely tour around our nearly finished data centre. Almost all the big ticket items are in. So starting in the UPS room: Those are the first two cabinets of our Uninterruptible Power Supply system (with another two behind), the buffer between the servers and the mains supply or the diesel generator. […]
Read moreDear colleagues and competitors in the hosting industry, Our businesses are built on an enormous foundation of free software. Web hosting remains solid, but we’ve all lost customers in the last 10 years to proprietary email platforms, and have just collectively just accepted it. Mail solutions based on exclusively free software are looking second rate compared to […]
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