Removing support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1
TL;DR For security reasons, it is best practice to disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1, but before you do this you may need to weigh up the risks to traffic from old browsers. After disabling TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 any visitors using old browsers won’t be able to access your site. If you are […]
Common warning signs before server outages
Everyone knows that server outages and server down time cost. It directly affects your business in a number of ways including: Loss of opportunities Damage to your brand Data loss Lost sales Lost trust It’s essential to stay on top and ahead of any potential downtime. Here are three areas where you need to be […]
Open for Business during COVID-19
There has been a lot of noise regarding the current coronavirus outbreak and I’ve been trying hard not to add to the volume. That said, we’ve had a number of customers come to us this week asking what we were doing and what has changed so I wanted to address that… Dogsbody Technology are open […]
Exploring character encoding types
Morse code was first used to transfer information in the 1840’s. As you’re probably aware, it uses a series of dots and dashes to represent each character. Computers need a way to represent characters in binary form – as a series of ones and zeros – equivalent to the dots and dashes used by Morse […]
Amazon Linux 1 goes EOL 30 June 2023
Updated 13 January 2023 Amazon Linux 1 (Amazon Linux AMI) extended maintenance support period ends on June 30, 2023. After this date Amazon Linux 1 will no longer be supported. Following customer feedback back in 2020, Amazon extended the end-of-life date of its Amazon Linux 1 and announced a maintenance support period – This Period […]
Apprentice Guide: How to Impress IT Employers
This week (3-7 February) is National Apprenticeship Week 2020. Dogsbody Technology have been hiring IT apprentices since 2013 and have seen A LOT of apprentice CV’s in that time! It still surprises us that applicants don’t sell themselves well, and is one of the biggest reasons we still give telephone interviews to a vast majority […]