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Importance of workplace security

Importance of workplace security

With the current COVID-19 situation threat actors are taking advantage. Now, more than ever, its crucial to ensure all your companies computers are fully up-to-date and secure so that you don't fall victim. There are five key areas to concentrate on to keep you secure.

Paying a fair wage, a living wage.

Paying a fair wage, a living wage.

We believe that being ethical means being kind to the environment, and paying our fair way in tax to the society in which we operate. We also believe it means being fair and kind to our employees and so today we are delighted to announce that we are officially a Living Wage Employer.

Wi-Fi Troubleshooting

Wi-Fi Troubleshooting

With everyone working from home, Wi-Fi is working harder than ever, it is performing less than optimally and struggling to keep up with the demands of video calls, streaming services and file sharing. This quick guide will help you make sure your Wi-Fi is as good as it can be.

Introducing Freethought Services

Introducing Freethought Services

Freethought have been providing web hosting, domain names, and managed solutions for over 17 years. We are delighted to announce the launch of Freethought Services. The same principles, the same level of care and attentive support, but for your home and office.

Saying what we pay

Saying what we pay

We are excited to announce that we have successfully secured Fair Tax Mark certification, independently recognising our commitment to pay the right amount of corporation tax in the right place, at the right time.

Planting trees every month 🌳

Planting trees every month 🌳

Having planted 5000 trees in December, and another 700 in January, we are now making our tree planting pledge a permanent feature. We'll plant trees for every order placed, and have planted another 459 - taking our total number of trees planted to 6,300 trees!

Tips for working from home during isolation

Tips for working from home during isolation

Read our top 10 tips for working from home if you're isolated during the coronavirus pandemic.

Coronavirus

Over the coming weeks and months coronavirus is going to have an increasing impact on everyone's day-to-day lives. We wanted to take a moment to just clarify how we forsee Freethought continuing to provide what are increasingly critical online services to our customers.

Christmas at Freethought, a year in review.

Christmas at Freethought, a year in review.

Once more we find ourselves at the end of the year with the festive season rapidly approaching and so we wanted to post a little update to tell you about some of what we're up to and what we have planned. We're a family run business so think of it like a good ol' fashioned family newsletter!

Planting not just trees but forests

Planting not just trees but forests

With our new partner Offset Earth we've planted 5000 trees and are funding projects to remove 100 tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere. And from today until the end of January 2020 every time you make a purchase from us we're going to plant even more trees!

Domain pricing changes

Domain pricing changes

As a general rule we try to avoid increasing our prices. Unfortunately, between price increases by registries and the current economic and political landscape, regrettably we are forced to adjust our pricing.

Brexit and .eu domains

Brexit and .eu domains

Important advice for registrants of .eu domains when preparing for Brexit

Ethical Consumer scores Freethought 14.5 out of 15

Ethical Consumer scores Freethought 14.5 out of 15

Read about how Freethought's ethical business policy was screened and scored 14.5 out of 15 by Ethical Consumer

Freethought gains ISO 9001 and 27001 certification

Freethought gains ISO 9001 and 27001 certification

Freethought is thrilled to announce that we are now certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 standards for quality management and information security.

Hosting Advice profiles Freethought

Hosting Advice profiles Freethought

Freethought sits down with Hosting Advice to talk about how family values still drive the business to this day.

Speed up your website with these 6 easy tips

Speed up your website with these 6 easy tips

Increase your conversion rate and reduce abandonment with these 6 simple tips to boost your site speed.

Automatic registration of second level UK domains

Automatic registration of second level UK domains

The decision to make second level domains available was somewhat controversial at the time and continues to be today; many Nominet members (including ourselves) voiced their strong concerns. Some registrars have decided to register these second level UK domains automatically.

Introducing Node.js, Ruby, and Git

Introducing Node.js, Ruby, and Git

We're delighted to announce that with the latest update to the Plesk control panel our standard web hosting and ULTRA hosting services now have native support for Node.js, Ruby (both Rails and Sinatra), and Git.

Freethought joins LINX

Freethought joins LINX

We are thrilled to announce that as of 5th November 2015, Freethought has connected to the London Internet eXchange (LINX).

Introducing Let's Encrypt

Introducing Let's Encrypt

We are delighted to announce that we have enabled support for Let's Encrypt across our entire range of shared and reseller Linux hosting services (we haven't quite got Windows working yet, sorry).

Brexit and Freethought

Brexit and Freethought

We address some of the more obvious questions that relate to Freethought and the UK vote to leave the EU.

Keeping the internet safe at Freethought

Keeping the internet safe at Freethought

As a provider of many internet services we take our responsibility to keep our customers and the wider internet safe, very seriously.

New ULTRA hosting, insanely fast SSD hosting.

New ULTRA hosting, insanely fast SSD hosting.

We are extremely excited to announce the launch of our latest service; ULTRA hosting. Our new ULTRA hosting is seriously fast hosting for websites that need a bit more "oomph".

Nominet’s unjustified 50% price hike on UK domains

Nominet’s unjustified 50% price hike on UK domains

We are disappointed to have to announce that from the 1st of March 2016 the price for .uk, .co.uk, .org.uk, .ltd.uk, .plc.uk, .me.uk and .net.uk domain names will be increasing.

The Wordpress update crisis

The Wordpress update crisis

Wordpress is a common target for hackers looking for web sites to exploit and use for nefarious purposes such as distributing malware to visitors, sending spam emails or launching DDoS attacks.