We have been notified that the iServe Windows platform operated by Orcon is now end of life, and they won’t be upgrading to new windows servers. This means that websites on that platform that need windows servers, will need to find a new web hosting provider before they turn them off shortly. Lounge Network can […]
NZ Web Hosting Scams
There are a huge number of scams out there on the internet, and dodgy web hosting by unscrupulous scammers is one such scams. There are possibly thousands of scam web hosting companies, mainly operating out of countries such as India, China and Russia, which spam people offering unlimited web hosting deals for tiny prices. The […]
Best NZ Web Hosting – You get what you pay for…
In recent weeks we have seen a dramatic increase in the number of new potential web hosting clients contacting us, looking for a new NZ based web hosting provider, and wanting to find the Best NZ Web Hosting for their website and email. The types of people contacting us mainly fall into one main category. […]
Lounge Network are taking NZ Web Hosting to the Next Level with Additional Security
The Lounge Network are protecting your businesses website from attackers.. At the Lounge Network we work hard to ensure your web site loads fast, is reliable and secure. This isn’t easy with more than 7,000 DDoS attacks occurring daily around the globe. To improve our ability to protect customers we have deployed state-of-the-art DDoS mitigation […]
NZ Domain Names – They say Possession is 9/10th of the Law
We would like to remind all .NZ Domain Name Registrants how important it is to enter accurate details with registering .NZ domain names, and keeping that information up to date. One of the biggest problems we see is when a company hires a third party to setup a website, and the domain gets registered in […]
Happy New Year…New Years Resolutions…
We would like to wish all our clients a very Happy New Year, and hope you all had a great Christmas break. The year has gotten off to a busy start, and it is no more busy than for Telecom NZ (which they subcontract out to YahooXtra), whose email service appears to have been hacked […]
Email Performance and Future Upgrades
Email is a service that has become so ubiquitous in daily life that it is rarely given a second thought. That is, until it stops working. Unfortunately, on November 12th this year, that’s exactly what happened for a number of Lounge Network email users, who were hosted on the Auckland based email cluster. All Web […]
Are all NZ Web Hosts suitable for business use?
There are many NZ web hosting companies out there, but the question many businesses may ask is, are they all suitable to host my businesses website and email on? The short answer is NO, they aren’t. Not all web hosting is the same quality, as not all web hosting has the same redundancy, backups and […]
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 […]
