Author: Fergus O'Sullivan

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Welcome to the latest State of the Cloud, the monthly column from Cloudwards where we take a look at all the industry news we were able to sniff out. For the first time in the two years we’ve been doing this column, we’re doing two months in one. With this funny bug doing the rounds, we found ourselves a bit preoccupied during the past few weeks. This means that in this edition we have double the shenanigans, including tales of customer support run amuck, government crackdowns on email services and corporate rivalry with cloud gaming ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; If you’ve ever used a virtual private network to access the Netflix of another country, you will, at some point or another, come across error code m7111-5059: “you seem to be using an unblocker or proxy.” In this article, we’re going to show you how to fix this problem using any of several ways. The best and simplest way is to simply sign up to our best VPN for Netflix, ExpressVPN. It comes with a 30-day refund policy, and if you sign up using this link, you get three months on top of its year-long ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Hello and welcome to this latest State of the Cloud, the monthly column where the Cloudwards editorial team takes a look at the latest tech news. In this edition, we’re taking a slightly new approach. Figuring that you’re well capable of finding most mainstream news on your own, we’re focusing on industry news that likely flew under most radars and spinning a story about that. So from now on, expect fewer appearances by Google and Facebook, companies you probably know are playing fast and loose with their societal responsibilities, and enter instead smaller players whose ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Welcome to this latest State of the Cloud, our editorial column where we look back on the month that’s been and look forward to the one ahead. In keeping with convention, this January edition is where we look back on the old year as a whole and make some predictions for the one to come. Well, 2019 was quite the year, and we’re looking back on it with mixed feelings here at Cloudwards. Though it’s mostly good news when considering the industries we review — cloud gaming is taking off, VPNs are proliferating and getting ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Hello and welcome to this State of the Cloud, Cloudwards’ monthly column where we look at the news of the month before, yet name it after the one we’re in. November was a strange month news-wise, as for the first time since we started this series in April 2018, we won’t be mentioning Facebook at all, except in a brief aside in our “smaller stories” section at the end. Subscribe to our monthly newsletter for updates on reviews, articles and investigations. This should spark some surprise among our more regular readers, and it certainly made ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Well, it’s that time of year again, when the turkey is polished off in the States and people’s fancy turns to shopping. As braving the crowds in brick-and-mortar stores is just a bit too daunting — as well as possibly bone-breaking — Cloudwards.net has put together the very best online deals for Black Friday 2019, with most of them continuing into Cyber Monday and even beyond. Without further ado, let’s take a look at the swag you can score. ExpressVPN First up is our favorite provider, and best VPN out there, ExpressVPN. It offers 12 ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Hello and welcome to this latest State of the Cloud, our monthly column where we go over the biggest stories from the cloud and tech industries. October was an eventful month, but November moved at an almost breakneck speed, so strap in as we review all the goings on in our niche. Subscribe to our monthly newsletter for updates on reviews, articles and investigations. Of course, our usual suspects of Facebook and Libra, its supremely dodgy currency, will make an appearance, but we’re not just throwing our usual stones from our glass house. Also checking ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; So, there you are: you’ve finally figured out how to get past the Netflix VPN ban and are ready to watch your favorite TV show, you get into the Netflix of the region you want, you click the thumbnail and … a black screen? You’ve just walked into the dreaded Netflix proxy error. In this article, we’ll show you how to unblock Netflix using some of the best VPNs on the market. We’ll cover the basics why Netflix blocks VPNs in the first place but if you don’t have time these are the top services ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Not everyone realizes it, but Netflix has a different library of movies and TV shows for every country that it is active in. It’s not alone in this: Hulu, Amazon as well as some Kodi repos have the same restriction. What makes the world’s number one streaming service different is the dreaded Netflix VPN ban. This article is about how to beat it. In theory, any geoblock like Netflix’s should be easy to circumvent by simply employing a virtual private network, a way to pretend your connection is coming from somewhere else than your actual ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; For the past few months, Disney has been announcing its new streaming channel, Disney+, set to be launched on November 12, 2019. However, you don’t have to wait till then to check it out for yourself. We went a-digging and found out how to watch Disney+ for free right now, and we’ll share the trick with you in this article. If you want to get straight to that, click here to get to the jump, or use the table of contents above. If you want a bit more background first on Disney’s Netflix-buster, keep reading ... Read More