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Free Domain Promotion 2008-03-08 04:43:46 With the launch of our new website, we will be ending the current free domain name special offer. At the moment you can purchase any new package, and get a free domain name, and this offer still stands until the new website is launched near the end of March 2008.
Once the new website becomes live, [...] Read more:Free Domain
GoDaddy Blocks OpenDNS 2008-03-08 04:40:03 GoDaddy appears to have completely blocked OpenDNS
requests from their network on March 6th for approximately 2 hours, preventing all OpenDNS users from accessing the GoDaddy corporate website, and all services/sites hosted on their network.
No real information has been posted regarding this since it happened, except from a short message from OpenDNS, but I can’t [...] Read more:GoDaddy
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Weekend Update 2008-03-08 04:23:44 Our last maintenance session didn’t go too well to be perfectly honest, we’re trying to complete something unique, which no one has attempted before, but mainly because our requirements are so specific, and our network is quite complicated. But by the following Monday we had completed our first set of migrations to our first VMWare [...] Read more:Weekend
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What Next? 2008-02-26 16:54:11 Completely off my usual blogging style, here’s an article from BBC News.
A new road camera that counts car occupants by detecting blood and water content on skin is being tested. Enforcing the more-than-one-occupant rule of car-sharing lanes has been a problem ever since Leeds opened the first in 1998 on the A647.
Using council officers and [...]
Friday Maintenance 2008-02-26 16:40:34 This Friday
, between 8am->11am, we will be performing maintenance on two shared servers - Keira & Shannon. Customers will be migrated to new hardware ‘live’ which may cause data to lose sync. Ie, changes made on the original server may not be migrated if the data has already been migrated until the switch has been [...] Read more:Maintenance
We Need A Bed In The Office! 2008-02-26 16:32:55 After yesterdays quite shocking day (ok, I had the Monday blues) we finally made some decent ground today with our upcoming virtualization network, and overcame (hopefully) a major problem preventing us from migrating physical machines to multiple small virtual clusters.
This allowed us to progress with the deployment of our Windows Server 2003 operating systems, and [...]
21 Million DNS Queries 2008-02-22 12:29:10 Since our switch to OpenDNS, a global DNS network providing faster DNS queries, we’ve pushed on average around 3 Million DNS queries per day, or around 150,000 per hour. A total of around 1300 phishing websites have also been blocked, protecting our clients from fraudulent bank and paypal scams overall creating a more secure network.
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Website Update 2008-02-22 12:18:37 Our new website went to beta testing today for our staff, so we can gather together a bug list to identify any minor mistakes which worked their way through production. At the moment we’ve only gathered about 10 bugs, so at this stage a release for next week is planned for the public website.
At the [...] Read more:Update
New Website Update 2008-02-20 06:45:48 We’re making real ground on the new Aventure Host website, with the first few pages now signed and sealed, the rest of the site is moving along nicely. I’ve included a tiny screenshot below, further sneak-peaks will be revealed each day until the website is ready to be launched. The screenshot included below is from [...] Read more:Update
Updated Office Pictures 2008-02-18 13:06:21 Some people are interested in where we are, and what we have around us when they arrange a visit, or simply call our head office, so below we’ve included some updated pictures of various areas of the building where our offices are located. New pictures of the datacenter and surrounding areas will be posted up [...] Read more:Pictures
XBox Live In March 2008-03-13 08:26:04 On Wednesday 26th March
2008 we will be holding a Staff v Client tournament on Halo 3 and Fifa 08 to celebrate the launch of our new Microsoft Products and Services, including Exchange, Sharepoint and Office Communications Server.
The winner from each competition will receive a free XBox 360 game of choice. To register your interest [...]
Dell Specials 2008-03-17 18:53:58 Just while I was wiping a tear from my eye after trying to hunt down more Dell 860s, I’ve spotted a couple of hidden discounts on Dell which some people may find useful if placing a server order over the next few days (no idea when they expire).
- Server deliveries down from £50 -> £25
- [...] Read more:Specials
PowerEdge 860 2007-2008 2008-03-17 18:36:17 Dell may have just killed off the PowerEdge 860 server range. Compared to some of their other 1U servers, the PowerEdge 860 uses around 0.58 AMPS compared to 1.5 AMPS for a Dell 1425 under high load. As of today, the PowerEdge 860 disappeared from the Dell public website, but remains within the Dell partner [...]
Sorry. We’re Going To Be Late. 2008-03-20 18:28:25 The launch of our new website and services, has been pushed back to April 4th 2008. This includes Microsoft Exchange, Sharepoint, Office Communications Server and our new VPS offerings. The delay is caused by a shortage in server RAM due to a delay with one of our high end memory providers.
Our first Microsoft Exchange server [...] Read more:Going
Marketing Gone Nuts 2008-03-20 18:22:19 After my initial post several days ago regarding the death of the Dell PowerEdge 860 1U server, Dell have introduced a new replacement, the Dell R300. I haven’t seen one, and I haven’t touched one, but lets see if I’m right on this assumption. The Dell R300, is a rebranded Dell 860, with a higher [...] Read more:Marketing
XBox Live Tournament 2008-03-27 17:21:36 The start date and time for this event has now been put on hold so it is TBC - this will be updated when we have more news. The event is free to enter and there will be a prize for the winner of each competition. The two Competitions will be held on the same [...] Read more:Tournament
BT Blocks SMTP Mail 2008-03-27 17:18:15 One of the UK’s largest (or largest) telecom providers British Telecom has started blocking all outbound SMTP traffic unless the reply address contains @btinternet.com. The change has been brought in to reduce spam, and ultimately forged/phishing emails originating from their network, but this is one of the most unbelievable restrictions put in place in years.
Users [...] Read more:Blocks
Our New Home 2008-04-04 10:06:30 The new Aventure Host website is due to go live in the next hour or so, it’s not 100% perfect, but we have a few deadlines to meet, and it’s important that the new site is up and airing itself over the weekend for us to track down any final bugs. So far we’ve fixed [...]
Last Chance! 2008-04-03 16:03:53 Tomorrow IS the day for the launch of our new website, VPS packages, and Microsoft Solutions. Any existing offers will expire at some point tomorrow, so if your looking to purchase a life package, or a one time fee package, visit the existing website prior to 5PM tomorrow to get your hands on one before [...] Read more:Last Chance
TechCrunch Has A Kit-Kat. 2008-04-02 11:58:34 TechCrunch (www.techcrunch.com) seems to have taken a kit-kat break. One, if not the largest technology and silicon valley news/gossip sites maintained by the equally liked and hated Michael Arrington hosted by Media Temple disappeared at around 5PM GMT. Hopefully it’ll be back soon, after all, where else am I going to get my latest tech [...] Read more:TechCrunch
Hosted Microsoft Exchange 2007 2008-04-06 07:17:57 If you use Microsoft
Outlook to manage your calendar, contacts, schedules, tasks, and emails, you’ll know that once you leave the office, your messages are left behind. With Microsoft Exchange
, everything comes with you, so when you connect to your Microsoft Exchange mailbox at home, through Outlook, your tasks, your emails, and your contacts are [...] Read more:Hosted
XBox Tournament Updates 2008-04-08 05:45:48 Update, Please see bottom. The start date for this event still has to be finalised, but there has been some movements to making the competition better for everyone. We have teamed up with worldofclans.com and they are going to help us run the event, the event will be detailed in their Arena area which can [...] Read more:Tournament
April Newsletter & Survey 2008-04-08 05:28:55 Our latest newsletter has just left our outbox, and on the way to our existing client base, including details of the new website services, service news, and a few special offers to kickstart the new website into full gear.
This months newsletter is quite large, simply due to the amount of service enhancements which [...] Read more:April
BeatThatQuote.com Spam 2008-04-07 09:13:56 I’ve seen quite alot during my online experience, and it’s time for another personal rant. If you’ve ever searched about for lower car insurance, or home insurance, you may have come across BeatThatQuote being advertised on UK television. As my insurance premium is coming up to it’s renewal period, I decided to jump on and [...]
WHIR Goes Offline 2008-04-07 06:57:45 The Web Host Industry Review (WHIR) seems to have gone offline as of 8PM GMT last night. The WHIR website publishes articles, press releases, and a monthly online magazine on a range of web hosting topics specifically for small to large web hosting companies.
On Friday the website was presenting ASP errors, but seems to have [...] Read more:Offline
Virtual Private Servers 2008-04-07 03:12:52 Have you ever wanted to have your own server, with full root access, but can’t afford a realistic price of £120+ per month in the UK or Ireland? Our new Virtual Private
Servers, powered by VMWare, provide a complete server solution starting from £7.50 per month ex VAT.
Choose from a vast choice of operating systems, [...] Read more:Virtual Private
Aventure Media Website 2008-04-10 08:51:16 The Aventure Media website has always taken a back seat in terms of having a complete website, mainly due to the amount of time required to maintain and constantly update the Aventure Host website.
The current Aventure Media website ended up being a 20 minute job and has never been updated, but with recent changes in [...]
Fasthosts Refugee Offer 2008-04-15 12:03:56 Fasthosts customers have suffered another outage today after the failure of a core network router. Some dedicated server customers have been affected for a period of up to 8 hours without connectivity, and as a result we’re re-launching our Fasthosts RefugeeOffer
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If you have any domains or hosting (reseller, shared, dedicated, VPS, email) with Fasthosts, [...]
Aventure Music 2008-04-17 07:33:21 Hello! I want to introduce you to a new project from Aventure Media, co-run by Mark Reynolds and Kenny Steelle. We’re developing Aventure Music
, home of Northern Irelands first online music magazine, The aim of this brand new website is to bring you news, reviews, articles, podcasts, gossip, interviews’ in all your favourite musical genres.
At [...]
Week In Review 2008-04-21 15:54:54 Last week proved to be quieter than expected due to the English holidays which resulted in only a trickle of support tickets and calls to hit our desks, but in turn this allowed us to further work on our new service deployments and upgrades, phase 2 of which is due to start at the beginning [...]
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