planb

Name: planb
Address: 47 Vernon Crescent, Lancaster, LA20LX, GB
Telephone: +441524881270

planb is built on a simple business ethic of cost effective solutions, transparency, trust and value.

We appreciate our customers and always try to go the extra mile to look after them. planb is a local Lancaster IT business that offers backup solutions, IT support and advice and hosted services such as email and hosting. We don't plan to be the biggest company in Lancaster but to offer a fair, cost effective, personal service to all our customers.

13/11/2026

Bit of a mixed bag this week of development projects, leased line installs and general support.

Also we have been approached by Virair to ask if we would be an installer for their circuits and managed networks which is always nice and it was great to catch up with their directors yesterday for a coffee and chat. In otehr news, the redevelopment of a system we wrote years ago is moving along nicely and the mobile app for uploading images of material intake is done. Just to connect the DEFRA code we have written and we are not far from rolling out a new PWA based system to them.

Next week is already starting to fill up too with some network installs and more development work. All on a day that Office 365 has decided to become Office 364

13/11/2026

In case people haven't seen any news yes Outlook and o365 is having issues. This is a Microsoft issue which we are unable to resolve however we will provide updates to our customers as we get them

Thanks for your patience.

29/10/2026

Strange one today multiple servers failing with I/O errors across the board. Turned out it was the attached storage on the SAN. Remount and restart the hypervisors and check and everything is back to normal.

29/10/2026

Testing replication across a couple of our servers after adding additional storage yesterday. After inheriting backing up a handful of synology NAS's sometimes you have to script you own backups

22/10/2026

Who doesn't love a good glowing PC, not a typical business machine but a quick mainboard replacement and OS upgrade for a long time customer. Luckily this customer just got away with a mainboard and processor after the last builder got a bit carried away with the thermal paste when building.

A pea size is enough, theres no prizes for managing to use a full tube. The result was a very gummy processor socket and damaged pins. Also a clogged set of cooling fans on the GPU, its no doubt shortened its life span but will keep someone gaming till maybe a new GPU at christmas?

21/10/2026

Following a National Cyber Security Center advisory we have been testing our servers and patching away. All our servers are regulary tested however just to be sure we have updated some core components on our services. Any customers that use PHP based applications and experience any strange behavour on websites hosted by us should contact our customer services. This may be due to incompatible old code however we can advise you how to update this.

For more information read the bulletin below.

Updated: The NCSC is encouraging UK organisations to take immediate action to mitigate a security issue affecting PHP (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619).

19/10/2026

Another day... and another dev job, about 14 years ago we developed a software solution for a local metal recycler inline with the governments guidelines. 14 years on and the new DEFRA guidelines has prompted a real reason to modernise this solution. At the moment this is a desktop application so its a good time to move this to a web application that way our servers can do the heavy lifting and integration to the gov.uk systems securely.

This is being developed so that the legacy data and database will bolt directly on to the updated architecture.

16/10/2026

Just a couple of tiny bits left to do but another project completed this week.

During the course of this project we have implemented Node.js capabilities to our hosting platforms so that payment systems will be more secure for this project but as a whole this benefits all our customers as we are now able to host your applications. The website should be launching in the next couple of days.

Next project on the cards is for White Lund Metals (thanks for being patient). Years ago we developed a system for end-to-end audit trails of waste recycling and payments, 14 years on its time to revamp the desktop application into a web based application that will be DEFRA compliant.

13/10/2026

Interesting job to start the week, setup of a satellite branch for IWS Recruit in Preston. Great to see a local company spreading out a little.

30/09/2026

Today..... A design job for a local company, and by far what I would say is a harder one. Designing a dark website is especially hard (in my opinion) expecially when using high contrast colours but I'll make it work using background shading to reduce the amount of solid block colour. Doing all these websites is making me think that out own website is looking dated 😂

This will be a database driven website written specifically for this customer to keep it lightweight and fast. Woocommerce was an option but its just so bloated.

www.planb-it.co.uk

Address

47 Vernon Crescent
Lancaster
LA20LX

Telephone

+441524881270

Website

http://www.planb-it.co.uk/

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