Entries by Dan Benton

24/7 support in partnership with Just After Midnight

Dogsbody are proud to announce 24/7 support in partnership with Just After Midnight (JAM). As our business has grown our customers have needed more and more from us. As the business owner I didn’t want to ask our staff to be on-call out of hours. They work darn hard during the working day and need/deserve […]

Staff Charity Giving 2022

The winter season can be a challenging time for many people which is why every year, at around Christmas time, we donate a percentage of our profits to good causes. For the last two years we have let our staff pick the charities close to their hearts. We are honoured to support their chosen causes… […]

MSP Spotlight – A Dog Mentality To Service

Last month I was interviewed as part of Linode’s Managed Service Provider Spotlight Series. The result was 50 mins of talking about what it’s like to be a business owner and my goals for the industry we work in. So go get yourself a cup of tea and have a listen… you don’t really even […]

Proud sponsors of Pride in Surrey 2022

We are proud to officially sponsor Pride in Surrey and would like to invite you to join us in supporting this great cause. The main event happens on 27th August 2022 in Camberley. A festival and parade will make Camberley the host of the largest Pride in Surrey event yet boasting performances from Sonia, Savior, […]

CVE-2021-44228 – Log4j2 vulnerability

This weekend, a very serious vulnerability in the popular Java-based logging package Log4j was disclosed. This vulnerability allows an attacker to execute code on a remote server; a so-called Remote Code Execution (RCE). Because of the widespread use of Java and Log4j, as well as the relative ease with which the vulnerability can be exploited, […]

CentOS 6 goes End Of Life on 30 Nov 2020

CentOS 6 goes End of Life (EOL) on the 30th November 2020. We recommend you upgrade to CentOS 7 or 8 before this date. Technology and security evolves. New bugs are fixed and new threats prevented, so in order to maintain a secure infrastructure it is important to keep all software and systems up to […]

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 […]

Troubleshooting ‘server down’ issues in Linux

This post will show you the keys to troubleshooting ‘server down’ issues in Linux, cover some common causes for outages and how you can investigate and resolve them. A well configured Linux server offers an incredible level of stability and performance. Inevitably though, outages are pretty much a fact of life. First though, it’s important […]

Proud to be part of the FSB Apprenticeship Report

One of the great benefits of being a member of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is it gives you a chance to be heard. This has been especially true of their representation of business owners with apprentices such as ourselves.  I am proud to have been interviewed extensively for the latest FSB research into […]