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Cloud company Xero now THIRD largest company on NZX – UPDATED

UPDATE: Xero is now worth more than Telecom We would like to extend our Congratulations to Wellington based company Xero, for today  becoming the third most valuable company on the NZX (New Zealand Stock Exchange). Xero now has a market capitalisation of over 4 billion dollars. Only Auckland Airport, and Fletcher Building have a higher […]

Buying and selling NZ Web Hosting Businesses

We regularly get contacted by small New Zealand web hosting businesses, looking to sell their web hosting business and client base to us. Unfortunately many web hosts that do contact us, do not have sustainable long term business models, and don’t really make any money. Many of these unsustainable web hosting businesses are setup by […]

Is your NZ Web Host a real Kiwi Web Host?

There are many web hosting providers now operating in the NZ market. However we have noticed that although many of them appear to be NZ businesses, many in fact aren’t. There are even some that have no physical New Zealand presence at all, yet they use a .NZ domain name and strong New Zealand branding […]

NZ Web Hosting Provider’s who just disappear overnight.

Over the last month we have seen a dramatic rise in the number of enquiries from people, whose NZ web hosting provider has just disappeared. Their website was online one day, and the next day it was gone… They have also tried to contact the web host, but the web hosts own website has disappeared. […]

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NZ Web Hosting Uptime Guarantees

There are many web hosts that offer Uptime Guarantees for their web hosting services. However many of these ‘Uptime Guarantees’ are just marketing gimmicks. Many hosting companies make a big deal of their uptime guarantees, whether it is 99%, 99.9% or even 99.99%. But the fact is, even the best guarantee will not stop your […]

Why cheap web hosting can end up costing more in the long run

There are always web hosting companies who will undercut others on price. But there is often a high unquantifiable price to be paid with using cheap web hosting. Often cheaper hosting is far lower spec, and can be unreliable and overloaded, with minimal or no backups, and poor quality support. So hosting should never be […]

Top 3 Password Managers for NZ Businesses

Passwords are one of the most frustrating things when using the internet. You seem to need a different username and password for almost every website you use. Not only that, but the passwords need to be made up of a combination or numbers, characters, which make them almost impossible to remember. But don’t worry, there […]

Welcome to your new website

Welcome to the future home of your new website. To get your new website loading, simply replace the existing index.html file in your hosting accounts home directory, with the index page of your new website. For help and support, please visit our Knowledge Base.        

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NZ Businesses Still Spamming

Since 2007 when the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007 came into force, it has been illegal for NZ businesses to send unsolicited commercial emails to people,(referred to as SPAM) who hadn’t previously agreed to receive them. However from our own experiences, many businesses are still unaware of the laws, and are carrying out some very […]

Global WordPress Brute Force Attack

There is currently an on-going and highly-distributed global attack on WordPress installations across virtually every web hosting provider in the world. This has been going on for several days. Although we haven’t seen any examples of problems on our own network, it is occurring elsewhere. Symptoms of the problem include slow website loading, or failing […]