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As a VMware Certified Partner AUSWEB are extremely proud to announce the launch of our long-awaited AUSWEB Cloud Hosting environment, offering a new range of premium plans.

We are proud to announce our new Cloud WebSites package which offers a managed cPanel hosting service run on a High Availability server allowing for full failsafe redundancy of your critical website services. Designed to meet the Mission Critical hosting needs for high-traffic E-Commerce and Business customers who know the value of a reliable High Availability environment.

In addition to our existing range of VMware Enterprise VM plans, we are proud to launch our new range of Cloud Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) plans, which offer the ultimate high-powered virtual hosting environment. Providing you with a high-powered VDS with dedicated resources and advanced Cloud features such as High Availability & Fault Tolerance, for both Windows & Linux.

The AUSWEB Cloud has been designed from  the ground up for failsafe redundancy and is powered by VMware ESXi & the vSphere Cloud hosting platform. Running on an expandable cluster of high-powered Dell R710 servers and high-performance iSCSI SAN storage powered by EqualLogic hardware.

Cloud VDS plans are dynamically scalable allowing you to upgrade or downgrade CPU/RAM/HDD resources from the AUSWEB Cloud as you require, ensuring you receive what you pay for as a minimum and with the peace of mind provided by a High Availability environment.

As an AUSWEB customer, you also receive the benefits of being hosted in one of Australia’s leading data centres, on one of Australia’s fastest networks. We operate and own our own hardware and network infrastructure, built from the ground up to provide both speed & redundancy, monitored 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year.

A number of lucky customers have been road-testing this environment for several months with impressive results. Our new Cloud Hosting services are launching to the public on the 1st September 2010!

For further details please call our sales & support team on 1300 735 272 and please visit our new AUSWEB Cloud Hosting information site at http://cloud.ausweb.com.au

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Tech News websites are all in a flutter over Apple announcing an emergency press conference on Friday morning. Speculation is running wild there may be a reluctant product recall of the iPhone4 based on the widespread antenna design-flaw issues reported by a large portion of the already several million strong user base.

Of course we won’t officially know until Friday, however, with Apple’s track record of denying design flaws in it’s products, merely calling a press conference is both bold & unprecedented .

You can view more on SMH.com.au and comments from design, PR & crisis management experts over at Cult of Mac

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If you’re looking into the future of reliable, failsafe, high performance virtual dedicated servers look no further than the AUSWEB vCloud for Mission Critical performance.

The AUSWEB vCloud utilizes the true dedicated virtualisation environment of VMware ESX & vSphere 4 running on clustered Dell PowerEdge servers connected to a high-performance Fibre Channel Storage Area Network, where all Virtual Machines and their data reside, providing complete fault-tolerance & fail-safe redundancy.

While most virtual hosting providers provide iSCSI Storage for professional level Virtual Machines, AUSWEB is the first VMware virtual machine hosting company to provide ultra-fast and ultra-reliable RAID 6 Fiber Channel SAN storage for true enterprise grade performance.

The AUSWEB vCloud offers VMware HA (High Availability) which means if any server fails, all virtual machines running on a failed server automatically restart on another server within the cluster – with no interruption or changes required to your applications or software! Providing both the performance and stability of dedicated resources with our high-performance storage area network delivering true high availability.

AUSWEB vCloud Enterprise Hosting services are designed specifically for mission critical web hosting environments allowing for rapid provisioning and scalability of resources. AUSWEB vCloud hosting services can be scaled up or down on demand, allowing you to provision and run infrastructure and applications on demand and only pay for what you need.

A large number of existing AUSWEB customers have already road tested our VMware Premium VM Hosting range over the last 9 Months with great results. AUSWEB vCloud Enterprise Hosting will be opened for signups in the coming weeks – if you wish to register your interest or to be added to our vCloud waiting list please send an inquiry to cloud@ausweb.com.au

AUSWEB vCloud Enterprise delivers:
High performance SAN storage for all data
High Availability for fault tolerance & failsafe redundancy
High performance AUSWEB network connectivity
Rapid provisioning & dynamic upgrades of resources on demand

You can also view some related Virtualisation articles on our website here: VMware Comparison & VMware Benefits

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WARNING: Domain Transfer Scam from Domain Registry of America (via BRANDON GRAY INTERNET SERVICES INC dba NameJuice.com)

AUSWEB Customer Care would like to warn domain registrants regarding another Domain Transferal scam.

Domain Registry of America (DROA) are at it again with another Email Scam going out to all registrants of gTLD domain names offering to transfer their domain to them. The notice looks like the process is a mandatory requirement for the registrant to enter into. The email was sent by illegally harvesting the public Whois database for .com and other gTLD domain names.
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The objective for this group is to share experiences on how fast Magento runs on your configuration and how to optimize it at different levels (hardware, mysql/php config tweaking, PHP accelerators) or even custom classes for Magento.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/group/view/168

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If you haven’t logged into your WordPress dashboard recently, you may have missed the release of the latest major update for WordPress which is now at version 3.0 and features loads of cool new features and fixes:

Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.) Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation. As a user, you will love the new lighter interface, the contextual help on every screen, the 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements

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To change the SSH port number login as root, and edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Find the line that says Port 22 and change…

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs posted an open letter today, finally clarifying Apple’s long held position against Adobe’s Flash format. Job’s politely worded letter listed several reasons for their decision not to support Flash on their mobile devices.

Most of the reasons have been suspected for some time, including the performance costs on mobile CPU’s when playing Flash files. The main point of contention for Apple is that  Adobe’s Flash format is a closed system which has some concerns for their end users and developer libraries. Definitely a valid point of contention, but quite ironic for Apple to complain about.

How does this affect you I hear you asking? Well the slow battle on this front is what will eventually shape modern technologies like HTML5, CSS and javascript which are looking for a unified solution for rich media content, not reliant on any one format or monopoly. You can bet Adobe has been feeling the effects for some time.

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Taken from Engadget:

It’s hardly been a secret that Windows 7 was on track to become Microsoft’s fastest-selling operating system, but the company has just now finally made that designation official, and also revealed that the OS has crossed the magical 100 million licenses sold mark in the process. In other words, that translates to Windows 7 being installed on one in ten of the world’s PCs just six months after it launched, which is pretty darn impressive any way you slice it.

Given the enthusiastic reception Windows 7 has received since it’s beta testing phase, these figures are not too surprising. Some quick maths with a conservative average price of $200 per copy of Windows 7 would give Microsoft a tidy 20 billion dollar profit over the last 6 months.

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The practice of buying up unused names, known as “domain parking”, is estimated to be worth more than $1 billion worldwide — and Australia is seen as a growing market for those with an eye for a dollar.

Domainers, as they call themselves, spot generic or popular names that have not been turned into websites and register them and as many variations as possible. They cram them with advertisements and watch as they earn a few cents per hit — big bucks when you have a large enough domain portfolio.
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