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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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We’ve been busy for quite sometime in the AUSWEB labs, testing and finalizing our new VMware Cloud Hosting solution. For Christmas we received one of the final pieces of the puzzle, that being our new EqualLogic SAN which will provide both high-availability and fail safe redundancy for our upcoming Cloud Hosting solutions.

AUSWEB’s new Cloud Hosting solutions utilise VMware ESX and vSphere 4 running on our high-powered DELL PowerEdge Server cluster, to deliver cost-effective hosting options with dynamic scalability, offering you high availability and full redundancy with fail safe performance.

Cloud Hosting allows you to add processors and memory on the fly and scalable storage space from AUSWEB’s EqualLogic Enterprise-Class SAN to any AUSWEB Cloud VMware Virtual Machine as you require, meaning you only pay for what you need as you need!

With AUSWEB Cloud Hosting you can run any Guest Operating System that runs under VMware ESX, including all Windows versions, all Linux distributions and many more.

All VMware Virtual Machines are connected to our high speed storage network to deliver blazing fast speed and server performance with a 99.99% uptime guarantee.

Stay tuned to this space for more Cloud Hosting announcements in the coming weeks.

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One of the most common questions (after SEO) we receive from our customer’s, is about optimizing their website load times and overall performance. The most common area is almost always making sure you’re using the right image type and compression, for the right situation. With modern website design and development, there are of course a lot more considerations to take into account, such as database driven content and advanced scripting languages. All of which can be optimized to ensure a better browsing experience for your visitors! Read more…

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AUSWEB Web Hosting is an official cPanel authorized partner now

http://www.cpanel.net//apps/partners/partner-info.cgi?cid=614

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Matt Cutts Talks Communication Strategy

One thing that Google is pretty good at is providing resources for webmasters to learn from. The regular videos from Matt Cutts in which he answers user-submitted questions are no different. It just happens to be this very topic that is addressed in the latest YouTube upload.
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Please find attached the new important Fantastico software security updates for your cPanel Hosting account

• Joomla 1.5: 1.5.12 -> 1.5.13
• Open-Realty: 2.5.6 -> 2.5.7
• SMF: 1.1.9 -> 1.1.10
• TYPO3: 4.2.1 -> 4.2.8
• WordPress: 2.8 -> 2.8.2
• Coppermine Photo Gallery: 1.4.20 -> 1.4.25
• Drupal: 6.10 -> 6.13
• LimeSurvey: 1.82+ -> 1.85+
• OpenX: 2.0.11-pr1 -> 2.8.1
• osTicket: 1.3.1 -> 1.6 RC5
• PHPlist: 2.10.9 -> 2.10.10
• phpWCMS: 1.1-RC4 Rev. A -> 1.4.2 r327
• TikiWiki: 3.0 -> 3.1
• Zen Cart: 1.3.8a -> 1.3.8a [Patched]
• Zikula: 0.764 -> 1.1.1

Please always keep your scripts save and secure and up-to-date to the newest version to prevent server and system compromise, which would not just affect you , but lots of other clients!

Best Regards and thanks you for your cooperation.

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Being in the hosting industry, one of the key elements of hosting is uptime and availability. Trust us when we say this is VERY important. We spend a lot of money on making sure that if problems occur, there is a fail over. If the fail over, fails over – There is a “Plan C”.  In order for us to know the moment a server becomes unresponsive, or if part of the network is having issues – We use monitoring.

Having support staff available 24/7 is one thing – They can answer customers queries, keep the information flowing and resolve problems. However, Not always can support staff fix the problem sitting at their desk. Sometimes systems administrators and network engineers need to be dispatched to the data centre at 3am on a Sunday morning, And lets face it – we can’t all work 24 hours a day. So the best way for all of our staff to know when an issue arises is via Instant SMS alerts. To do this, we use a particular service called Pingdom.

Pingdom monitor our network/servers and their response times from multiple locations, and send us SMS alerts when something goes wrong. This allows all of our staff to be aware, the exact moment a server goes down, no matter where we are. Now, they have opened up a new type of account which allows you to monitor your website for free. Part of this package includes 20 Free SMS credits per month.

We recommend you give it a go, Especially if you want to sleep at night – knowing that someone is keeping an eye on your website.

Pingdom: www.pingdom.com

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Verisign recently published it’s quarterly domain report – “The Domain Name Industry Brief“.

As to be expected from a report dealing with numbers of that size, the latest report is a little on the boring side for the average person, with a lot data and statistics to wade through.

So we’ve picked some of the more interesting figures, which you can see below!

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Recently we made a post about our new cloud computing infrastructure and the hardware we were using to build such a platform. Well, our servers have been delivered and we are in stage two of this set-up which is the install and configuration of the ‘cloud’.

As previously discussed, we have purchased a number of the new Dell PowerEdge R710 servers, and we have since configured these in the data centre and commenced the complex process of getting these servers working in unison. The reason why this stage is so important, is because this is the base building blocks of our cloud. These machines will be doing the hard work of computing the extreme amounts of data we intend on pushing through the cloud. They will also be configured so that in the case that one server (Server A) was to fail or go offline, there would be no downtime for the end user, The other servers (Server B, C & D)  in the cloud would compensate and manage the tasks that server A was doing. The data would autonomously be mirrored across the active servers, in the case that another server was to fail. The way that the servers do this, is via a backbone gigabit network.

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The Wolfram Alpha team has revealed on their blog, some of the impressive hardware behind their super-duper new “Computational Search Engine”. If you haven’t heard about Wolfram Alpha yet, it’s a recently launched “computational knowledge engine” with an interface similar to a search engine. Wolfram Alpha promises to approach to our search engine needs from a different perspective, with the lofty long-term ambition of “making all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone”.

By entering your question or calculation, Wolfram|Alpha uses it’s built-in algorithms and ever-growing collection of data to compute your response. Be it the distance in cm to Pluto, or the age old mystery of ‘how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?’

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