Articles by Max
Marketing
Our sole Hamiltonian, Max is a digital content strategist with degrees in Marketing and Philosophy. He has worked at the intersection of digital UX and marketing for banks, software creators and agencies. Conferences in South Africa, USA and Australia have invited him to talk about what he’s learned there. Working behind a keyboard suits him well: in a completely different job, he once crashed a truck.
High Performance success from very close to home
In which SiteHost discovers how fast SiteHost’s High Performance hardware can run SiteHost’s core backend API.
From July .nz domains face a 22% price rise
InternetNZ are hiking the wholesale price of .nz domains by almost a quarter. There’s still time to pay today’s prices, but it’s running out.
Andrew Telfer on Wedoo’s remarkable growth in the ERP market
Wedoo’s business accelerated when the ERP consultancy switched to open-source system Odoo, and to SiteHost Dedicated Servers.
Talking High Performance Silverstripe with Sunny Side Up
Web developers report incredible gains for clients who switched from custom hosting to High Performance Cloud Containers.
PHISHING ALERT: SiteHost customers, and their credit cards, are a target
A number of our customers are reporting phishing emails that link to a replica of our payments page. Please take care.
Joseph Marinovic & Fabric Digital, kicking against the digital marketing cowboys
When his web design agency saw SEO vendors keeping clients in the dark, Joseph Marinovic saw an opportunity for transparency.
The annual SiteHost t-shirt giveaway returns for 2025
Our free 2025 t-shirt celebrates your community and, in a SiteHost first, lets people choose their shirt colour too.
SCAM ALERT: SiteHost customers targeted in phishing attack
Fake emails claim that SiteHost customers need to increase their email storage. The senders hope to harvest your login details.
Expanding our newest and best virtualisation technology
We built it for High Performance Virtual Servers, and now our new virtualisation technology enables new features on Cloud Containers and other servers too.
NotebookLM makes quick work of the long Cloud Exit story
Over time we've written 15,000 words on the Cloud Exit, AWS, and improvements in server hardware. Can this month's buzziest AI tool turn that into a useful podcast?
Blocked emails? Avoid spam filters with SPF & DKIM records
Gmail and other email systems require email senders to be authenticated by an SPF or DKIM record. Here’s how to make sure your mail gets through spam checks.
Patching SSH vulnerabilities in Ubuntu and Debian
An SSH vulnerability affecting Ubuntu, Debian and AlmaLinux distros could allow unauthenticated users to remotely access systems. Patching efforts are underway on all servers that we manage.