Please be advised that we will be closed on the coming Bank Holidays in June, which mark the Platinum Jubilee.
We will be closed from 1600 on Wednesday 1st June, and for both Thursday 2nd June and Friday 3rd June, which are public holidays. We will be back from as usual on Monday 6th June.
Support is available on public holidays by prior arrangement only. We hope you have a good long weekend.
Following the changes to commercial licenses, which took effect on 1 March 2022, Microsoft have also announced pricing changes for nonprofit licenses:
Price changes
An update to the pricing of nonprofit licenses for Microsoft 365 will take place on 1 September 2022. Microsoft say that this is the first substantive pricing update since Office 365 (now Microsoft 365) was released back in June 2011, and since initial release they have added 24 new apps – including Microsoft Teams – and over 1,400 features.
Exact figures in GBP (£) are not yet available, we expect these around 1 August 2022. Going by the USD ($) pricing, we are likely to see a ~10% increase across all licenses.
EDIT: New pricing has now been confirmed, and the only price change is to the Business Premium license, as per below.
For example
| License type | Current pricing | New pricing | ||
| Business Basic | £0.00 pcm | £0.00 pcm | ||
| Business Standard | £2.30 pcm | £2.30 pcm | ||
| Business Premium | £3.80 pcm | £4.10 pcm |
All prices are per user and subject to VAT.
Grants available
Microsoft also say that they are committed to providing nonprofits with grants and discounts (of up to 75%) across as many Microsoft 365 products as possible. Registered nonprofits may be eligible for up to 10 licenses of Microsoft 365 Business Premium, 300 licenses of Microsoft 365 Business Basic, and 2,000 licenses of Office 365 E1 via an Enterprise Agreement.
Fully renewable energy web hosting
We are one of the first UK web hosting providers to be powered by 100% renewable energy; not just carbon offsetting. This means a direct relationship between our datacentres and the power they use – to ensure it is from renewable sources including solar, wind, and hydro.
Your websites and web apps are hosted on the latest and extremely energy-efficient Dell servers using SSDs, which require less power than standard SATA disks used by other hosting providers. Not only is this hardware energy-efficient, but also the low power consumption means faster processing speeds and lightning-fast access to your data across our web hosting platform.
Our hosting platform has been designed with a maximum use, no waste of resources mindset. Every aspect is built to be as energy-efficient as possible, and as a result environmentally friendly.
This step to provide entirely green hosting for our web hosting platform is just one we are undertaking in a programme for carbon neutrality for our entire energy usage. We are working on the steps for our other hosting platforms (including data and backup services) to be powered by renewable energy as well.