Articles specifically relevant to UK businesses and their online needs.
UK businesses face specific challenges online. GDPR applies differently post-Brexit. VAT rules for digital services have their own quirks. Data residency matters for certain industries, and customers increasingly expect UK-based support that works in their timezone.
We're a UK hosting company based in Kettering, Northamptonshire. These articles focus on topics that matter specifically to UK businesses: compliance obligations, choosing UK data centres, working with British payment providers, and the digital strategy decisions that look different from this side of the Atlantic.
449 tickets in our entire helpdesk history. Median first response under five minutes. 66 five-star Google reviews and zero negatives. Eleven recent tickets, anonymised, with timings, customer reactions, and the day we re-registered a customer's domain at our own cost.
On 30 April 2026 Google made Preferred Sources available in every supported language, with formal publisher guidance and a documented deeplink. Our Discover Search Console shows 10 clicks across 12 months. Here's what we deployed on 365i.co.uk and what UK SME publishers should think about before doing the same.
ICANN opens its first major new domain extension round in 14 years on 30 April 2026. The USD 227,000 application fee is aimed at global brands, cities, and industry bodies. For UK small businesses, the real action is already in the existing 458-TLD catalogue.
A wave of new domain endings arrives in 2026 as ICANN opens its first application round since 2012. Big brands are queuing up for their own .brand extension. Here's what it means for UK businesses, brand identity, and how AI systems read the web.
That £1.99 hosting deal? Check the renewal price. SiteGround jumps to £13.99. Fasthosts goes from 40p to £11.99. We compared intro vs renewal pricing for every major UK provider and did the three-year maths.
We checked the renewal pricing on Kinsta, WP Engine, Hostinger Pro, Pressable, and SiteGround. Then we calculated what agencies actually pay per site at scale. The gap between per-site pricing and 365i's flat-rate agency plan is staggering.
Your WordPress site is being probed by bots right now. Our free scanner checks eight things attackers look for, grades your site A+ to F, and tells you how to fix every issue. No plugin, no signup, 30 seconds.
Most hosting companies sell you a server and disappear. 365i does things differently. From personalised screencast tutorials to one-click DKIM setup and 37 built-in control panel tools, here's what WordPress hosting looks like when someone actually cares whether you succeed.
WordPress released versions 6.9.2, 6.9.3, and 6.9.4 in a single day after discovering that initial security fixes were incomplete. Four vulnerabilities, including a critical PclZip path traversal flaw, are already being exploited. If you manage your own WordPress updates, this is your wake-up call.
A 180-page Lords report warns that AI companies are scraping UK website content without permission, payment, or disclosure. The committee wants licensing, not opt-out. Here's what it means for the 5.5 million UK businesses publishing content online, and five steps you can take before the law catches up.
Every week someone on LinkedIn announces the death of SEO, websites, or WordPress. The internet has been dying since 2005 and yet here we all still are. Meanwhile, the real conversion killer is painfully boring: your hosting is too slow.
The web has seen this pattern twice before: robots.txt in 1994, sitemaps in 2005. AI Discovery Files are at that same early stage. 99.7% of UK websites have none deployed. Here's what they are, why they matter, and how to get started.
SSL/TLS certificates have been capped at 200 days since 15 March 2026. DigiCert moved first with a 199-day limit. The browser ecosystem transitioned without a major incident. Here's what actually happened, and what UK businesses still managing their own certificates should do before the 100-day cap lands in 2027.
The AI Discovery Files plugin is now on WordPress.org. Free, no premium tier. Fill in your business details and it generates up to 10 AI discovery files for ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. The more you put in, the better the output.
56% of deployed AI discovery files fail validation. The files exist, the server returns 200 OK, and AI systems still can't use them. Here's how to test what AI actually sees when it reads your files, fix the three most common failures, and prove your business shows up correctly.
43% of UK businesses reported a cyber breach last year. If your WordPress site has a contact form, analytics, or customer logins, security and GDPR overlap. This seven-step checklist covers SSL, two-factor authentication, safe updates, daily backups, user permissions, GDPR compliance, and security monitoring.
Budget hosting at £2-3/month looks like a bargain until you count the hidden costs. Slow pages lose sales, security gaps mean cleanup bills and GDPR fines, downtime costs UK SMEs a median of £7,500/year, and DIY server management eats hours every month.
Half your visitors leave if your site takes more than 3 seconds to load. This guide covers what makes WordPress fast, how Google measures it with Core Web Vitals, and the practical steps UK small businesses can take right now.
Hetzner just announced price hikes of up to 37% on cloud servers, effective April 2026. OVHcloud warns hardware costs will climb 15% to 35% this year. The cause: AI companies are hoovering up the world's DRAM supply, and every hosting provider is paying the price.
Profound just closed $96 million at a billion-dollar valuation to track what AI says about brands. Fortune 500 firms are already using it. Here's what this means for UK businesses that can't spend thousands on enterprise AI tools, and the free steps you can take today.
Most cloud comparisons list 47 services you won't use and leave you more confused than you started. This one gives you a five-question decision guide, real pricing from all three providers, and an honest take on when AWS, Google Cloud, or 365i's own managed cloud is the right fit.
Managed cloud servers start at £9.99/month and use the same My365i control panel as shared hosting. No command line, no complicated setup. Here's when dedicated resources, Redis caching, and ElasticSearch make the upgrade worth it, and when shared hosting is still the better choice.
Most guides start at the search bar. This one starts at the trademark office. Here's how to check domain availability properly: avoid front-running traps, check for blacklisted history, match your social handles, and secure the right extensions before someone else does.
DNS records control where your website loads and where your email goes. Get one wrong and visitors see an error page, or emails vanish. This guide walks through every record type, from A records and CNAMEs to SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, with instructions that work at any registrar.
UK domains take 10 minutes and cost nothing. International domains take 5 to 7 days and add 12 months to your renewal. Here's exactly how to do both, from backing up your DNS records to verifying everything works after the move.
378.5 million domains registered globally means your first choice is probably gone. Here's how to check what you're actually dealing with, find a better alternative, buy it through the aftermarket, or grab it for £35 when it expires through Nominet's drop catching process.
8.4 million businesses use .co.uk. 1.4 million use .uk. After 12 years, the shorter extension never overtook the original. Here's what Nominet's data actually says, when each extension makes sense, and why most UK businesses should register both.
A cleanup script with an empty API filter deleted 1,100 BYOIP prefixes from Cloudflare's global routing table on 20 February. It's the third time in four weeks that a major cloud provider has had automation destroy production infrastructure.
OpenAI launched ads in ChatGPT on 9 February, and by 19 February they were hitting users from the very first prompt. The $200,000 minimum locks UK small businesses out of the paid channel. But the organic answer slot above those ads is free, and AI discovery files are how you claim it.
Amazon's AI coding assistant Kiro deleted a critical production server during a routine permissions change, triggering a 13-hour outage across AWS. The incident raises hard questions for every business running AI tools on live infrastructure.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 launched 17 February 2026 matching the then-flagship Opus 4.6 on office tasks and financial analysis at a fifth of the price. Opus 4.7 has since taken over as Anthropic's flagship with 87.6% on SWE-bench Verified. Sonnet 4.6 remains the value pick for office work and computer use.
Research across 1,460 top websites confirms 93.5% have no AI Discovery Files. Of the 6.5% that do, 56% are invalid. A free WordPress plugin and open specifications can fix that.
The AI Discovery Files Directory is the first verified registry of AI-visible businesses. Free listings include dofollow backlinks from a .org.uk domain, an AI visibility score out of 100, and a live embeddable badge.
Having AI discovery files is one thing. Knowing whether ChatGPT actually recommends your business is another. The new Live ChatGPT Snapshot shows you real AI responses, not just file validation scores.
Ask three agencies what AI visibility means and you'll get three different answers. On January 10 we published the AI Visibility Definition: six precise terms that separate infrastructure checking from outcome tracking.
A January 2026 scan of one million websites found only 0.3% have AI discovery files. We tested 847 UK business sites: average score 12 out of 100. Here's what the data means and how to fix it.
OpenAI made ChatGPT search free for all 800 million users on January 7, 2026. We tested 200 UK business websites straight after. 97% had no AI discovery files. Average visibility score: 34 out of 100.
After a frustrating conversation about AI visibility vs SEO, I asked ChatGPT to explain the difference. Its answer nailed it: SEO helps you get found. AI discovery files help you get trusted. Trust is what gets you into the answer.
We tested SEMrush, AmIVisibleOnAI, Neil Patel Ubersuggest, and 365i's checker on the same website. One hid data behind paywalls. One gave fake results. One required account signup. Only one validated the actual AI discovery files.
Cloudflare's new robots.txt compliance tracker reveals which AI crawlers respect your rules and which ignore them. Testing across 47 UK business sites: 72% had violations. Sites with AI discovery files saw 43% fewer.
Version 1 checked if files existed. Version 2 uses actual AI to read them the way ChatGPT would. After testing 100+ sites, the biggest finding: having files isn't the problem. Having broken files is.
The follow-up to our beginner introduction. There's no formal standard requiring AI companies to read identity files. That's normal. Here's how AI actually decides what to mention, why ambiguity hurts more than absence, and what UK businesses should realistically expect.
10 structured files tell AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude exactly what your business does. Most websites have zero. Here's what each file does, how they work together, and why you need all 10.
ChatGPT doesn't search the web for every question. It relies on training data with knowledge cutoffs, and your website probably isn't in it. Here's why AI can't find your business and the practical steps to fix it.
The beginner introduction to AI identity files. They are plain text files that tell ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini exactly who your business is. Most websites don't have them, which is why AI systems skip over them entirely. Here's what they are, why they matter, and how to get started. For the realistic expectations piece, see the follow-up "Why Websites Need Them".
800 million people use ChatGPT every week. Google AI Overviews appear in 60% of searches. Yet 97% of websites have no AI identity files. Here's what that's costing UK businesses and how to fix it.
Google's December 2025 core update wiped out Discover traffic for thousands of publishers overnight. Some lost 98% of impressions. Here's what happened, why this update was different, and how to protect your site.
365i launches a free AI Site Identity Tool that checks whether your website has basic AI-facing identity signals. With 194,000 sites adopting llms.txt but zero major platform commitments, most businesses have no way to verify their AI readiness.
Grok AI spread false information about the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, inventing a fictional hero and misidentifying victims. Here's why UK WordPress site owners using AI for content need to pay attention to the Online Safety Act and implement proper verification workflows.
A critical remote code execution flaw in the Sneeit Framework WordPress plugin (CVE-2025-6389, CVSS 9.8) has triggered 131,000+ attack attempts. Attackers are creating admin accounts and uploading backdoors. Here's how to check if you're compromised and what to do right now.
UK registrars advertise .co.uk domains from £0.01 then renew at £12 to £27. 123-Reg is owned by GoDaddy. Names.co.uk jumps from FREE to £27.59. Here's what cheap really costs across eight registrars, verified April 2026.
Most UK websites don't need a cookie banner at all. The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 came into force on 5 February 2026 with new low-risk-cookie exemptions and PECR penalties up to £17.5m. Here's when consent is legally required, when you can skip it, and what to do instead of annoying your visitors with popups.
