The Road Ahead

Happy New Year and best wishes for 2017 from everyone at Calzada Media.

Happy Christmas and Seasons Greetings to all our customers and visitors.

In October, Microsoft announced changes to UK pricing that will take take effect from 1st January 2017. The reasons given for the price increase is to harmonise UK pricing with the euro level pricing in the EU/EFTA region and the reduced value of the pound against the dollar in recent months.

From 1st January 2017, the prices for all Microsoft Cloud Services including Office 365. Azure, Dynamics 365 etc. will increase by 22%. However, because many of these services are price-protected for the term of 12-month subscription, the price change will only occur at renewal. For example, if you took out a new Office 365 subscription in September 2016, the price you pay will remain the same until September 2017, after which the price for the subscription will increase in line with current levels.

Similarly, Hosted Exchange prices will also increase, but by a smaller amount. From 1st January 2017, Hosted Exchange prices will increase by 12%.

These price increases will impact all suppliers of Microsoft cloud services in the UK including those purchase directly from Microsoft.

We will be performing routine maintenance work on our THAMES server tonight (14th June 2016) between 20:00 and 21:00. Although this will be routine maintenance work, there may be some minor, short-term interruption or impairment of services.

Mail services including WebMail and Hosted Exchange will not be affected by this maintenance.

You may track the status of our services at any time at status.calzadamedia.com.

As we indicated back in January, from tomorrow (1st March 2016) all .UK domains will be increasing in price to £5.99 + VAT / Year. This price increase is unavoidable as the UK Registry Nominet will be increasing the prices it charges for all .UK domains by around 50%.

From tomorrow, all .UK domains will be charged at the new rate of £5.99 + VAT / Year. The affected domains are:

• .co.uk
• .ltd.uk
• .net.uk
• .org.uk

To take advantage of the current pricing, we encourage all of our customers to renew or register your domain names for upto the maximum of 10 years before the end of today (29th February 2016).

The change to the new price will occur to coincide with registry change at 00:00:00 GMT on 1st March 2016