Every now and then we get contacted by website owners hosted by other web hosts, telling us that their website has gone offline and they can’t contact their web host. They are wanting us to urgently help them get their website and email back online. Their existing web hosts website maybe offline, and all attempts […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
We continue to be astounded by the number of New Zealand businesses of all types and sizes, that continue to use the free email addresses that their Internet Service Provider (ISP) gave them. These are the free email accounts that ISPs give their customers when they signup to a new internet connection, and the free […]
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 […]
