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A Look Inside 2008-04-23 16:49:14 There isn’t much that happens with our business that we don’t know about, whether it’s a dropped packet, or whether the internet in the office is playing up, at any time, we collect a huge amount of information about our staff and their actions, our network, our servers, and general internet traffic.
For the last 5 [...]
Small VPS Updates 2008-04-23 16:42:02 Several new operating systems have been added to our VPS range, including Windows Server 2008, Debian, FreeBSD, Trustix (EOL Recommended For Development Only) & Mandriva.
In addition to this, Webmin (Control Panel) no longer occurs a setup charge of £10 (it’s entirely free), meaning you can now obtain a full virtual private server, including Linux and [...] Read more:Small
R1Soft Press Release 2008-05-07 14:51:02 May 7, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Ireland-based Internet solution provider Aventure Host (aventurehost.com) announced on Wednesday that it has joined R1HPP, data recovery solutions provider R1Soft’s (r1soft.com) recently launched hosting partner program.
R1Soft launched its partner program in February as a way to “give web hosts an edge” in marketing and offering its [...] Read more:Press
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Sold Out: 14 Days 2008-05-11 13:04:08 The last few weeks have been extremely busy for us in Belfast, as we sold out our entire VPS stock in less than 14 days. We’re currently moving on with our consolidation plans pending the arrival of new Dell servers in the next 7-10 days, at which stage we’ll continue to upgrade the existing individual [...]
New VPS Updates 2008-05-17 19:21:57 We’re constantly improving our new virtual private servers, and our new cloud solutions. As our first lot of VPS solutions sold out within the first 14 days, we’ve proven to ourselves and our customers that we’re providing the best virtual private solutions backed by our 24/7 support guarantee.
Over the last few weeks we’ve been making [...]
New Gift Vouchers 2008-05-21 06:57:07 A new range of Gift Vouchers
will be available from next Tuesday on the Aventure Host website, and to celeberate (as we always do) with this new service, we’ve sent out over 200 free £10 vouchers to some of our existing clients.
If you’ve been selected, you’ll find it popping through your door within the next [...]
Press Release: Solid State Drives 2008-05-21 05:27:08 May 22nd 2008, Ireland-based internet solutions provider Aventure Host (aventurehost.com) announced on Monday that it is the first mainstream web hosting company to offer SolidState
Hard Drives on several hosting products.
Unlike conventional hard drives which store data on a magnetic surface, a solid state hard drives stores data within SRAM or DRAM memory, and [...] Read more:Press
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The Planet Fire 2008-06-01 16:21:45 Aventure Host is not hosted at the Planet, this is purely news.
None of our USA dedicated server customers are affected by this news.
A fire at ‘The Planet’ the largest privately held hosting company has taken 9500 servers, 7500 clients, their DNS system, control panel and domain registration services. The fire broke out in a generator [...]
Power Maintenance 2008-06-02 04:05:39 On June 23rd 2008, we will be performing power maintenance which will cause <15-20 minutes of downtime for each server, including dedicated and VPS servers. This maintenance is to improve power consumption and for the installation of new hardware as part of our ongoing service improvement program. Read more:Maintenance
Appointment: Danielle McDougall 2008-06-02 03:55:52 Danielle McDougall has been appointment Regional Sales Manager at Aventure Media based at the Aventure Media Head office in Belfast. Danielle will be responsible for meeting existing local clients as well as promoting our rapidly expanding range of consultation and IT solutions.
Any sales/marketing queries can be directed to Danielle at our head office on 0870 [...] Read more:Danielle
New SMS Notifications 2008-06-04 03:20:25 European customers will now receive a mobile phone text alert (SMS
Message) for upcoming renewals, this new system is completely free of charge and will help prevent unnecessary downtime due to late payments. Customers who have recently changed their mobile phone number should contact us through the helpdesk to have their records updated.
SMS Messages will [...] Read more:Notifications
Rescheduled Maintenance 2008-06-05 17:36:11 Power maintenance previously scheduled for June 23rd, will now be performed on Monday June 16th 2008. This maintenance will cause <15-20 minutes of downtime on our entire network, due to work being carried out on our power supplies in preparation for new hardware installations as part of our ongoing server replacement process. Read more:Rescheduled
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Are Your Backups Safe? 2008-06-05 17:33:53 The most imporant aspect of any online business, should be an adequate backup solution. Unfortunately as most businesses IT budgets continue to decline, small to medium businesses simply aren’t investing in suitable backup infrastructure resulting in data loss, miss-management of data, compliance failure risking financial fines, loss of customers and loss of potential income.
Having a [...] Read more:Backups
BarCamp Belfast 2008 2008-06-13 08:01:56 Danielle McDougall (Sales & Marketing) & Michael Kitchen (Business Development) will be at BarCamp Belfast 2008 on June 21st 2008 at Queens University Belfast (Peter Froggatt Centre) from 9am to 5pm, any local customers are more than welcome to drop in and have a chat, the team will be giving away a Micro Server and [...]
Newspaper Feature 2008-07-08 09:50:28 ‘Hosting The Main Avent’
The Sunday Life (Jobs Section, Front Page) July 2008 Edition
Richard Kennedy is the managing director of Aventure Host, a strategic consultation, design and internet infrastructure provider with over 12,000 customers in 173 countries worldwide.
What was your first job?
My very first job was working in a local Spar in Belfast. I worked there [...] Read more:Newspaper
Magazine Feature 2008-07-01 10:10:35 Ulster Business Magazine
, June 2008 - Aventure Host
Northern Ireland has been largely unappealing to investors in the ICT sector during over a generation of violence but with a growing consensus that peace makes better business than conflict, new opportunities are starting to open up. But let’s not forget the sizeable band of local entrepreneurs who [...]
Business Award 2008-06-27 18:13:07 Richard Kennedy (our Managing Director), received ‘Young Business
Personality Of The Month’ from Business Eye Magazine sponsored by ESB at the Radisson Hotel in Belfast this month which kicks off the countdown to the UTV Business Award
s which are being held in the Culloden Hotel in Northern Ireland on October 2nd 2008.
The awards ceremony in [...]
Month In Review 2008-07-21 17:33:58 July has turned out extremely busy for us, which is unusual for the summer period. Over the last few weeks we’ve received a fantastic amount of press in national newspapers, business magazines, and even accepted a business award for some of our new products and management team.
Over the last few weeks quite alot of background [...] Read more:Month
New Status Website 2008-07-16 06:38:11 We’ve just launched a new offsite network status website to allow clients to monitor service, server or network faults without requiring a helpdesk login. Previously announcements were posted on our helpdesk which made tracking/view updates over complicated, so our new network status website makes the process of getting critical information even easier. The new website [...] Read more:Status
OPManager 8 Wish List 2008-08-07 16:55:57 A few months we wrote a review on OPManager, comparing it against IPCheck from Paessler which we’ve used in our network operations centre for the last few years.
Over the last few weeks we’ve been finalising a new product for our server customers which meant we needed to have the ability to export graphs/reports in real [...]
Connectivity Issues 2008-08-06 10:43:43 We’ve always been one to hold our hands up when something isn’t right, and today we’re going to do just that. Over the last few weeks our datacenter provider has experienced a large number of connectivity related issues such as high latency and loss of throughput due to several issues with border distribution routers.
On Tuesday [...] Read more:Connectivity
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R1Soft & CDP 2008-08-05 14:00:48 I’ve always believed that CDP (our backup infrastructure) was one of the best available on the market, and I still do, our customers love it, and it’s provided a fast efficient and secure method to perform single file restores, and entire server restores in the event of hardware failure.
Around 7 months ago we brought an [...]
Virtualisation At Aventure Host 2008-08-05 13:58:03 Virtualisation has made dramatic ground over the last few years and business customers are becoming more aware that Virtualisation can not only reduce excessive overheads such as power, but can ultimately be more flexible than traditional servers.
At Aventure Host we’ve been updating our traditional infastructure and replacing it with high end clusters utilising the latest [...]
PHP 4 EOL 2008-08-03 15:42:19 Support for PHP 4 ended in December 2007, with basic security updates being dealt with until August 8th 2008. At the end of August 2008 we will discontinue support for PHP 4 and will continue with the PHP 5 versions, at current PHP 5.2.6 is available on our servers and customers won’t notice any problems.
If [...]
Customer Satisfaction 2008-08-01 19:56:01 When we upgraded our helpdesk in June 2008, we gave our customers the ability to rate the quality of each support ticket on completion and leave additional comments, and in July 2008 our helpdesk team received 100%.
The most important aspect of this feature is the comments field, every comment is reviewed (good or bad) and [...] Read more:Customer
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It’s In The Works 2008-08-01 19:44:06 This month will see the beginning of our new service roll outs, and August 1st kicked things off with the launch of the new Aventure Host website which provides an overall cleaner interface than previous editions, and provides a sneak peek into some of our new upcoming products and services.
Over the last few weeks, we’ve [...] Read more:Works
The Customer Is Always Right 2008-08-24 02:19:32 This month we’re adding a new customer feedback section to the Aventure Host website, so you can honestly see the positive, and the negative comments, after all, without customer feedback we can’t improve, so how’s it looking?
Camille Schulz
I switched to Aventure Host after getting the run around at my old hosting provider. They turned off [...] Read more:Customer
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It’s Our Birthday! 2008-08-24 02:15:53 This month will see Aventure Host celebrate it’s 6th birthday, and the second anniversary of our network operations centre in Belfast. The last year has seen dramatic changes for our entire company, new services, new staff, breakthrough’s in technology and an increase in enterprise and corporate customers.
This week existing customers will be contacted with special [...] Read more:Birthday
Managed Servers Sold Out 2008-08-23 12:20:35 We’ve done it again, and our managed servers have now completely sold out ahead of schedule. With the introduction in our cloud control panel, the interest in our managed server range has been dramatic, and over the next few weeks we’ll be adding more hardware to keep up with demand.
Our customer services team are now [...]
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