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Introducing Drupal CMS: Your Ultimate Solution for Website Management Available Now at 2020Media

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In the ever-evolving world of web development, a robust and flexible content management system (CMS) is crucial for creating and managing dynamic websites. We are thrilled to announce the release of Drupal CMS, now available at 2020Media, your trusted partner for hosting and domain services.

Why Choose Drupal CMS?

Drupal is a powerful and highly customizable CMS that empowers you to build everything from personal blogs to enterprise-level websites. With its modular architecture, Drupal allows you to extend and tailor your site to meet specific needs, making it a favorite among developers and businesses alike.

Key Features of Drupal CMS:

  • Best for:  Marketers, content creators and site builders.
  • Scalability: Perfect for small projects and large-scale applications, handling high traffic with ease.
  • Security: Robust security features to protect your site from vulnerabilities and threats.
  • Performance: Optimized for speed and performance, ensuring a seamless user experience.
  • Community Support: Benefit from a large and active community offering extensive resources and support.

Get Started with Drupal at 2020Media

At 2020Media, we understand the importance of reliable hosting for your Drupal site. Our Drupal hosting plans are specifically optimized for Drupal, ensuring top-notch performance, security, and support. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or just getting started, our team is here to assist you every step of the way.

Why Choose 2020Media?

  • Expert Support: Our knowledgeable team provides personalized support tailored to your needs.
  • Reliable Hosting: High-performance servers and 99.9% uptime guarantee for a smooth, uninterrupted experience.
  • Affordable Plans: Flexible and competitive pricing to suit businesses of all sizes.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to leverage the power of Drupal CMS. Visit 2020Media today and explore our hosting plans designed to maximize your site’s potential.

Contact Us:

Ready to get started? Contact our team at 2020Media to learn more about how Drupal CMS can transform your web presence. We look forward to helping you achieve your online goals!

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No New Phone Lines?

The UK is preparing for a huge technological change. By the end of 2025, the historic analogue network, used to make most phone calls from our landlines and also used for broadband, will have reached the end of its life. And a new digital phone network is taking its place.

The new network will provide a future proof, more reliable and dependable broadband service that will support the UK for decades to come.

The upgrade to a digital line supports the next generation of voice calls – higher quality, fewer faults and less maintenance, as well as being better for the environment. Landlines are going digital across the UK.

This means voice calls will soon be over a digital line – in the same way broadband works.

This change will affect almost everything that currently plugs into an analogue telephone wall socket. This includes any equipment that may be provided to clients and customers, or equipment they purchase to utilise the services on offer.

To manage this, 2020Media will no longer offer analogue phone lines after 31st August 2023. This also affects services over analogue phone lines such as ADSL.

Instead, 2020Media will offer a new product called “SoGEA” which is equivalent to Fibre to the Cabinet  (FTTC). This offers high speed internet without the seperate cost of a phone line.

Telephony service will move to a Voice over IP solution, commonly known as VOIP.

 

 

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Enterprise & IPv6 Workshop – UK IPv6 Council

On 24th April 2023, a team of technical staff from 2020Media attended an Enterprise and IPv6 Workshop organised by the UK IPv6 Council at the Morgan Stanley Conference Centre in London. The workshop was aimed at helping enterprises understand and adopt IPv6, the latest version of the Internet Protocol that offers many benefits over the current IPv4.

The workshop featured a series of talks from experts and practitioners who shared their insights and experiences on various aspects of IPv6, such as address planning, security, applications, cloud, Kubernetes, IoT and case studies. The 2020Media team learned about the latest news on IPv6 adoption and technical challenges, as well as best practices and tips for a successful transition.

IPv6 talk
IPv6 Security & Mythbusting – Fernando Gont (SI6 Networks)

The workshop also provided an opportunity for networking and knowledge exchange with other attendees from different sectors and backgrounds who are interested in or working on IPv6 deployment. The 2020Media team enjoyed the lively discussions and interactions with the speakers and peers, and gained valuable feedback and suggestions for their own IPv6 projects.

The 2020Media team would like to thank the UK IPv6 Council for organising this informative and engaging workshop, and Morgan Stanley for hosting it at their impressive venue. The team is looking forward to applying what they learned at the workshop to their own work and contributing to the IPv6 community in the UK.

Slides from the presentations can be found at : Enterprise & IPv6 Workshop – UK IPv6 Council

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Joomla  4 Celebration – User Group Meetup

If you build websites using Joomla, head over to a special online event marking the release of Joomla 4, held by the Joomla User Group, JoomlaLondon

This event includes involvment from the Release leads from 4.0, 4,1 as well as appearances by key figures from Joomla 3 and 5! If that wasn’t enough, Robert Deutz, President of Joomla! will also be attending.

The evening will start at 19:00 UTC. That’s 19:00 GMT for those in the UK.

Registration:

https://www.joomlalondon.co.uk/jugl

A reminder that 2020Media provides Joomla Hosting and ongoing Tech Support for Joomla sites. Check out our plans at https://www.2020media.com/web-hosting/shared-hosting/joomla-hosting/

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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.