Domain Trustee Service – EU domains

From 1st January 2021, UK citizens and organisations are no longer permitted to hold .eu domain names (as the UK has left the EU).

We offer a Domain Trustee Service for UK citizens and organisations who wish to register or maintain a .eu domain name for business, personal or brand protection reasons.

This type of service is also called a domain proxy service or .eu proxy service.

Get in touch if you’d like to know more. www.2020media.com/contact

 

Improve the Performance of your WordPress Website

A new feature launched today offers Static WordPress Hosting for 2020Media Managed WordPress websites.

In collaboration with Cloudflare Inc, the world leader in globally distributed content delivery, the new Automatic Platform Optimisation services takes your WordPress site and serves it as a static HTML site fully cached from servers near your vistors.

Results are impressive, , with a 72% reduction in Time to First Byte (TTFB), 23% reduction to First Contentful Paint, and 13% reduction in Speed Index for desktop users at the 90th percentile. This means visitors to your website see not only the first content sooner but all content more quickly.

Our Managed WordPress hosting all ready offers static content caching – which is files like images, CSS and JavaScript, but that is only part of the equation. Dynamic content is still fetched from the origin server incurring costly round trips and additional processing time.

The new option also means you can keep managing and updating content on your website in the same way and leave the hard work for performance to us. No extra steps are needed on your site at all.

Logged-in users and Ecommerce (woocommerce in the intial release) are supported too – the system checks for “cookies” – little bits of data that are unique to specific users – and bypasses the cache for them. This ensures customized content for a specific user is only visible to that user.

Interested? The service costs from £5+VAT per month and you can try it for a single month to ensure it benefits your site. Get in touch on 0370 321 2020 or by emailing us here: www.2020media.com/contact

Offer Great WiFi in your Coffee Shop or Cafe

It’s been a busy few weeks at 2020Media for installing new WiFi systems across London.

Pictured is the first Bethnal Green branch of “F*ckoffee“, where a new WiFi system was installed both here and it’s sister branch down the road. In August we installed WiFi for Fix Coffee, a trendy coffee shop with two sites in Hackney and the Barbican.

As always, a easy to use system is key, and our WiFi service delivers this above all else.

Setup on each site was completed in under 15 minutes (including the time to drink a cup of expertly barista’d flat white!)

Costs for the service are currently held at £15+vat per month, with a setup charge of between £100 and £200. Flexible contracts and loads of features you just don’t get with other WiFi solutions.

WordPress 5.5.1 Fixes Millions of Broken Sites

WordPress publishes new information that describes why WordPress 5.5 negatively affected millions of websites, a staggering amount. WordPress is publishing a maintenance release, version 5.5.1. It is designed to serve as a patch to give time for plugin and theme developers to update their software.

The announcement about what went wrong linkes to a spreadsheet naming hundreds of plugins and themes that were affected.

The spreadsheet also notes what the specific issue is for each plugin and theme, which will help software developers fix their plugins and themes.

Read more: WordPress 5.5.1 Fixes Millions of Broken Sites

2020Media’s Managed WordPress service is run by experts who know that major new releases can cause issues like this, and took the decision NOT to upgrade sites to 5.5 and therefore sites were not broken by the original release. We’ll be testing this new 5.5.1 release before rolling it out.

Read more about our Managed WordPress Service.

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